NEW YORK, NEW YORK, 17th March 2008 -- Roddy Gow, Chairman of Gow & Partners World Team is pleased to announce that Ted Price, Former Managing Director and Former Chairman, Lehman Brothers India, has been appointed to the Gow & Partners Advisory Board.

Ted Price’s main achievement as Managing Director at Lehman Brothers India has been the creation of a world-class financial service platform in Mumbai capable of huge expansion. Previously he was Managing Director, Director Global Corporate Security at Lehman Brothers from 2001 to 2005 and succeeded in creating and building a best of class global corporate security platform for a staff of 20,000.  Since December 2007, he has also held two advisory positions as Consultant for Lehman Brothers Inc. and as Advisor for Pegasus Capital Advisors.

After starting his career as a U.S. Marines-First Lieutenant, Ted Price was selected for the CIA Officer Training and Marine Officer Training Program. He was chosen as one of the youngest officers to enter a Chinese Language School for 20 months.  In 1964 he entered the Central Intelligence Agency and headed clandestine operations and covert action worldwide. His career in assignments abroad was spent overseas in 8 countries over 21 years as an operations officer and manager specializing in Asia.  He was promoted to Director of Personnel and then selected to establish and serve as the Chief of the Counterintelligence Center. Eventually he was promoted to Associate Deputy Director and then Deputy Director for Operations until 1995.

From 1995 to 2001, Ted was Senior Managing Director, Head of Crisis Management Group for The Kroll-O’Gara Company. He supervised 90 staff as a strategic partner of AIG for two bespoke insurance policy lines and managed a team of 12 former FBI agents after 9/11 providing crisis management services for Fortune 500 companies and European and Asian multinationals.

Ted Price is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Intellectual Property Law Institute, as well as a member of the Advisory Committee of The Kroll-O’Gara Company.  He holds a BA in History from Yale University.

“We are delighted that Ted Price has agreed to join our Advisory Board,” said Roddy Gow, Chairman. “As we expand our presence in the emerging markets, particularly India and China, his experience of those and other international markets will be invaluable. He joins other very distinguished business men and women on this Board.”

Gow & Partners World Team, founded in 2002, is a premier global executive search firm specializing in the recruitment of key senior executives and board of director members for international clients.  Headquartered in New York with a global network of offices in London, Chicago, Houston, Washington DC, Brussels, Paris, Istanbul, Hong Kong, New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Singapore, Dubai and Johannesburg, the firm offers clients in-depth local market intelligence and provides value added advice and world class candidates globally.