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Roddy Gow (OBE)

 
An international business leader who has successfully built and led global practices and developed clients at the highest levels while active in volunteer leadership positions and as a speaker in business forums.
 
Professional Experience
 
18th January 2010 – present Chief Executive, Asia House, London
 
2002 - 2010 Gow & Partners Group, London and New York; Founder and Chairman. Global executive search and consulting business. Through its subsidiary Gow & Partners World Team, consists of a network of offices in twelve cities worldwide. Another subsidiary, Gow Board Consulting (GBC) conducts Board advisory assignments.
 
2000 – 2002 Odgers Ray & Berndtson, London, Director and Chairman of the Board and Financial Services Practices. Left to start own business.
 
1995 – 2000 LAI Worldwide, later TMP, New York. Executive Vice President
responsible for the North East Region and Co-Head Global Financial Services
Practice. Ran New York office which became Head Office of the firm and increased revenues from $4.5 to $30 million in two years. Member of the Board of LAI and also Amrop International. Served as Chairman of The Americas and later Deputy Chairman Worldwide. Involved with LAI’s listing on NASDAQ, the first executive search firm to go public. Involved with the acquisition of Ward Howell. Left following acquisition by TMP and change of leadership.
 
1994 – 1995 Russell Reynolds Associates, New York, Managing Director. Developed a geographic practice with financial services clients in Latin America. Generated new clients for the firm. Was recruited away to assume a larger role.
 
1991 – 1994 GKR Group Limited, London, Chief Executive of this British global
executive search consulting company with four offices in the UK and eight in other countries around the world. Left after the untimely death of the principal shareholder and Chairman.
 
1983 – 1991 Russell Reynolds Associates, London. Executive Director and then
Managing Director. Head of Global Financial Services Practice 1986. Managing
Director, London Office and Member of the Firm’s 6 person Executive Committee
1988 - 1991. Managing Director International 1990.
 
1978 – 1983 Barclays Bank in London and New York. Member of the Management Development Programme. Gained experience of retail and corporate banking. Became Vice President with Barclays Bank of New York.
 
1966 – 1978 Service in the British Army as an officer in the Scots Guards, retiring as Captain. Held leadership positions in NW Germany, Northern Ireland and Belgium. Served as ADC to the Chairman of NATO’s Military Committee, the senior officer in the Alliance, and was an Instructor at The Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.
 
Education
 
Winchester College, Winchester, UK
Trinity College, Cambridge University, UK BA Hons 1970 MA 1972
 
Professional and Other Awards
OBE, Officer of the British Empire; Awarded for services to British Trade in theUS
FRSA Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts
FIPM Fellow of the Institute of Personnel Management
ACIB Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers
 
Other Activities
 
Non Executive Chairman,
Gow & Partners Group, Offices Worldwide
 
Member,
Royal Company of Archers, Queen’s Bodyguard for Scotland, 1982- present
 
Chairman,
Action Resource Centre 1991 – 1993
 
Chairman,
British American Chamber of Commerce of London and New York, (now British American Business), 1999 – 2001 (involved with merger with American
Chamber of Commerce in the UK)
 
Chairman, President and Vice President,
British American Business Council, 2001 – 2003
 
Member,
Guild of International Bankers, London 2001- present
 
Member,
Advisory Council, London Symphony Orchestra 2001–present
 
Co-Chairman,
American Foundation of the London Symphony Orchestra 2001- present
 
Fellow,
Foreign Policy Association, 2005 – present
 
Member,
Advisory Board, British American Business, 2006 – present
 
Member,
Business Advisory Council, Said Business School, Oxford University, 2007- present
 
Council Member,
Brookings Institution, 2008 – present
 
Director,
American Scottish Foundation 2008 - present