Roddy Gow is the founding Chairman of Gow & Partners, a global consulting and executive search firm specializing in cross border key executive and Board member  appointments. He is a renowned international practitioner in Board level and senior executive recruitment and has over 20 years of executive search experience across all areas, specializing in the financial services sector. His expertise ranges from investment and commercial banking to asset management and venture capital. He has executed searches in Europe, the Americas, Asia, the Middle East and Africa.

He began his career in executive search with Russell Reynolds where he became Managing Director responsible for the firm’s London office and, subsequently, international practices. In 1991, he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the GKR Group based in London and then New York. In 1995, he was recruited to LAI Worldwide, later acquired by TMP, as Executive Vice President in New York, responsible for the Global Financial Services Practice and the Northeast Region. During that time he was also Chairman of the Americas for AMROP International and subsequently Deputy Chairman Worldwide.  In 2000, he returned to London to become Chairman of the Board and Financial Services Practices of a UK firm. In 2002 he founded Gow & Partners.

Before entering the executive search business in 1983, Roddy Gow was a Vice President at Barclays Bank plc from 1978 to 1983. He also served for 12 years with the British Army in the Scots Guards and was Personal Staff Officer to the Chairman of the Military Committee of NATO in Brussels.

Roddy Gow is the past Chairman and President of The British American Business Council, the largest transatlantic business network in the world. His contribution was recognized in the Queen’s Honors List in 2002 when he was awarded an OBE, (Officer of the British Empire). He is a member of the Business Advisory Forum of Oxford University’s Said Business School and the Advisory Council of the London Symphony Orchestra. He holds an MA from Trinity College, Cambridge University.