Caldwell Partners International Inc. announced a major enhancement to its high-tech recruiting capabilities with the addition of Raj Das as a partner in the firm's Technology Practice. Mr. Das specializes in recruiting executives in the transformative and disruptive areas of big data, analytics, generative AI, robotics, retail media networks, and other rapidly evolving technologies influencing traditional media, digital media, and marketing services sectors. His clients include some of the largest companies across the FMCG, media/tech, business services, and agency industries.

With over 30 years of experience in executive leadership, he has a keen understanding of the platforms, processes, and people required to succeed and prosper in today's increasingly complex global environment. Mr. Das joins Caldwell from a specialized, boutique retained search firm, where he led the firm's Global Transformation Practice and focused on senior level executive and board leadership consulting for the last decade. Prior to his career in executive search, he was the founder and CEO at POM Partners, a global digital media incubation and acceleration firm.

Before that, he was CFO and chief strategy officer at a publicly traded direct marketing company with operations in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. Mr. Das spent the first 10 years of his career in investment banking, executing over $20 billion of transactions during his leadership tenures at Citigroup, ING Barings, and Bear Stearns. Mr. Das graduated summa cum laude from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a B.S. in finance and multinational management.

He also graduated from Harvard Business School's General Management Program and Stanford University's Stanford Executive Program.