NEW YORK, NEW YORK, 1st May 2008 -- Roddy Gow, Chairman of Gow & Partners World Team is pleased to announce that Mack International, LLC, a Chicago based executive search and consulting firm, has joined Gow’s growing network, working  under one international brand to service global clients.  This new collaboration continues the strategic, focused expansion of Gow & Partners World Team, and broadens the service offerings of both firms.

Mack International, LLC is a premier retained executive search and consulting firm focused on providing solutions to financial services and wealth management industry clients.   In addition to its executive search services, Mack International provides customized consulting solutions, working in partnership with clients to develop actionable strategies to address organizational and market challenges that promote client success.

“I am delighted that Linda mack has joined the World Team”, commented Roddy Gow, Chairman and Founder. “She has considerable experience in working with wealth management and private banking clients in a sector which continues to show signs of growth and where our international contacts will provide her with significant added value. I look forward to working closely with her in the future.”

Linda C. Mack is the founder and president of Mack International, LLC, a boutique firm specializing in retained executive search and consulting services for financial services and wealth management industry clients.  Prior to founding Mack International, Ms. Mack was a Partner in the Chicago office of TMP Worldwide Executive Search, one of the top five retained executive search firms in the world, from 1997 to 2002. As a member of the firm’s global Financial Services Practice, Ms. Mack was responsible for senior level search assignments across a wide range of financial services functions including private banking/wealth management, asset management, private equity, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.  Ms. Mack also has more than twenty-five years of financial services industry experience, most recently as a senior vice president at Harris Bank.

Ms. Mack received her M.B.A., in finance and accounting, from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University. her B.A. degree from the University of Arizona.

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 and Johannesburg, the firm offers clients in-depth local market intelligence and provides value added advice and world class candidates globally.