Caldwell Partners Appoints Leader of Private Equity and Venture Capital Practice

The Caldwell Partners International Inc. has announced the appointment of Mercedes Chatfield-Taylor to lead its newly combined Private Equity and Venture Capital Practice. Based in San Francisco, Ms. Chatfield-Taylor previously founded and led the firm’s Venture Capital Practice.

With more than 18 years of experience in executive search, Ms. Chatfield-Taylor focuses on recruiting CEO, CFO, board director, operating partner, senior advisor and high level investment professional searches for the financial sponsor community and their portfolio companies across a broad range of industries. She brings deep expertise in software as a service, social, ecommerce, gaming and other transformative technologies.

Prior to joining Caldwell Partners in 2010, Ms. Chatfield-Taylor held leadership positions at executive search firms including Heidrick & Struggles where she helped re-establish and run their global Venture Capital Practice. Previously, Ms. Chatfield-Taylor co-founded an emerging technologies boutique search firm to address the unique hiring needs of venture-backed technology companies. Earlier in her career, Ms. Chatfield-Taylor was vice president of marketing for XL Insurance, a global excess insurance, reinsurance and financial risk-management company, with holdings of over US$13 billion. She managed XL’s marketing efforts in Bermuda before moving to Sydney, Australia to open their first office in the Pacific Rim and lead the firm’s efforts to impact the difficult Asian/Pacific insurance and financial risk management market. She is a graduate of Boston University, where she received a BA in business communications and a BFA in graphic design.