CONLEY SEARCH GROUP - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Managing Director & Partner / Canongate Partners
• Managing Partner of Canongate Partners

April Riddle Gow is Managing Partner of Canongate Partners which she and Roddy Gow co-founded in 2011. Canongate Partners is an Anglo-American affiliate of Conley Search Group. April has recruited talent and served as a strategic and policy advisor for over 20 years. Specializing in senior level recruitment in the nonprofit arts and cultural heritage sector, she has also worked alongside her partners in Financial Services, Human Resources and Luxury Goods practices. Prior to her career in search, Ms. Gow worked in corporate marketing and communication for Alfa Romeo, Toyota, Estee Lauder and Aetna. She has also held executive positions in the nonprofit sector in Los Angeles, New York and London. She has lived and worked in Japan, and has travelled extensively throughout Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe. Ms. Gow has served on numerous nonprofit boards in Los Angeles, New York, Tokyo and London, including: The College Women's Association of Japan; The Japan Society of Southern California; Blue Light Theatre Company in New York; she founded and co-chaired the American Friends of the London Symphony Orchestra in New York; she served as a Governor of St Marylebone Church of England School in London, founded in 1791; and a member of the Vestry of Trinity Episcopal Church in Southport, CT., founded in 1725. She currently serves on the Board of Urban Stages, an off-Broadway award-winning theatre company in New York; the Advisory Board of the Hospitality Committee for the United Nations Delegations and the Advisory Board of Asia Scotland Institute. Ms Gow has also been a Council Member of the Brookings Institution in Washington DC and the Foreign Policy Association in New York. She has been involved with Oxford University's Said Business School and has performed the role of Master of Ceremonies for two Oxford India Business Forums in Mumbai and New Delhi, which were filmed by CNBC. While an Art History student at San Diego State University, she was chosen for the Junior Year Abroad program to study at its campus in Florence, Italy, staying for a second year to take courses at the University of Florence. She returned to California to attend the University of California Los Angeles to study Political Science and International Relations.

Job Titles:

• Managing Director
• President
• Real Estate

Mr. Cicchino has over 20 years of experience as a professional recruiter and specializes in the Real Estate industry. He started his career as an associate in the New York financial services practice of Ray & Berndtson before moving to Lamalie AMROP International where he was a Partner and Head of the NA Capital Markets and Investment Banking practice. After taking that firm public, in 1999, he and Kevin Conley founded The Westgate Group, a financial services boutique where he served as head of the New York Office. Mr. Cicchino holds an MA in Theological Studies from Drew University and a BA in Psychology from Saint Peter's University. Mr. Cicchino and his wife Elizabeth are active in the community and serve as a host family for the DCPP, providing emergency foster care to inner-city children throughout New Jersey. He is the co-Founder and serves on the Board of Directors of the Peter M. Cicchino Social Justice Foundation at the Washington College of Law and is on the Board of Trustees at Drew University. He and his family are ardent advocates of senior dog rescue.

Job Titles:

• Managing Director

Job Titles:

• Managing Director
• Managing Partner of Executive Bridge

Cindy Kohlbry is the Managing Partner of Executive Bridge which she founded in 1999. Executive Bridge is the Midwestern Affiliate of Conley Search Group. Cindy has recruited talent and served as a career advisor for the last 20 years. Specializing in executive-level projects, she is known for her broad and diverse recruiting practice in not-for-profit, financial services, life sciences, and private equity. Before joining Conley Search Group, she created the Not-for-Profit and Financial Services Practices for Grant Cooper and Associates, which she owned and managed for ten years. Prior to her career in search, Ms. Kohlbry worked in investment and merchant banking for CitiGroup, HSBC, and a regional bank later acquired by Bank of America. She has lived and worked literally all over the world, but is originally from St. Louis which she now chooses as her primary residence. An active and engaging speaker, Ms. Kohlbry makes regular presentations at industry conferences and financial services and Not-for-Profit forums.

Job Titles:

• Consultant
• Executive Manager
• Senior Consultant / the Development Consulting Group

Doralynn Pines is an executive manager, consultant, advisor, and administrator for museums, libraries, and other art institutions with four decades of experience. As Associate Director for Administration at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, she administered and managed all departments reporting to the Director, including the curatorial, conservation, library, editorial and collections management departments. She also served as liaison to administrative departments for budget, finance, operations, and human resources, especially in hiring senior staff and departmental leaders. More recently, she used the knowledge she gained over decades at the Metropolitan to consult with The Development Consulting Group where she focuses on executive search for non-profit organizations. She also carried out an analysis of the creation and preservation of "born digital" materials for the New York Art Resources Consortium (libraries of the Frick Collection, the Brooklyn Museum and the Museum of Modern Art). She advised the Dresden Museums in Germany on strategic planning. She serves, has served and been an officer on the boards of the College Art Association, the Shaker Museum in Old Chatham, New York, the Research Libraries Group, and the International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) where she chaired the Finance Committee and now chairs the Friends of the ICMA, She is also a member of the Advisory Council of the Department of Art History and Archaeology of Columbia University, and has served on the Friends Council of Avery Library, at Columbia, and the Advisory Board of the Noguchi Museum. She chaired the Barnard College Alumnae Association committee known as Project Continuum, and is now a member of the Association's Nominating Committee. After majoring in art history at Barnard, Doralynn earned an M.A. from NYU's Institute of Fine Arts, an M.S. from Columbia University's School of Library Service, and a Ph.D. in Art History from Columbia's Department of Art History and Archaeology.

Job Titles:

• Managing Director & President / Filimon Partners
• Partner at Heidrick & Struggles

Job Titles:

• Chief Executive Officer
• Founder
• President

Job Titles:

• Managing Director
• President
• President of Berne Advisors, Ltd

Job Titles:

• Managing Director & Head of Education Practice

Job Titles:

• Founder of Canongate Partners
• Managing Director & President / Canongate Partners

Roddy Gow is the Founder of Canongate Partners, an international executive search consulting firm, specialized in solving human and financial capital challenges for clients seeking to enter Asia and the Emerging Markets. He has handled senior appointments in the UK and Europe as well as Asia and Africa and worked on the provision of advice on doing business in those regions. Roddy is also the Chairman and Founder of the Asia Scotland Institute in Edinburgh, a pan-Asian initiative launched six years ago, with the mission to equip Tomorrow's Leaders in Scotland with the knowledge and skills to engage effectively with the Asian markets and improve links between Scotland and the Asian region. He was previously the Chief Executive of Asia House in London, a pan Asian not for profit institution, where he drove its mission to educate and inform the people of the UK about a region extending from the Gulf in the West to Japan in the East. An international business leader who has successfully built and led global practices and developed clients at the highest levels, he has also been active in volunteer leadership positions and as a speaker in business forums. He has lived and worked in the United States for many years and traveled extensively in Asia, Africa, and South America. During a career spanning service as an Officer in the British Army, several years as a banker in the UK and the US and over thirty years working at the highest levels of global executive search, he has always been interested in the challenges of understanding and embracing the skills needed to function effectively across national boundaries. He has worked on expanding understanding of where the art of leadership intersects with the science of management. He was awarded the OBE in 2002 for his services for British Trade in the United States. A former member of the Business Advisory Council of the Said Business School, Oxford University, he is a past Visiting Professor at London Metropolitan University and a past member of the Advisory Council for the Welsh National Opera, he is Chairman of the Plant for Peace Foundation, a not-for-profit developing sustainable agribusinesses in Afghanistan. He holds an MA degree from Trinity College, Cambridge University.