Caldwell Expands in London and Madrid
May 29, 2026 – Toronto-based Caldwell has expanded with the addition of Alex Langridge as a partner in the firm’s financial services practice. Based in London, Mr. Langridge advises clients across financial services and fintech on senior executive and board appointments, succession planning, organizational design, and transformational leadership hiring. “Alex’s appointment reflects our continued investment in expanding Caldwell’s financial services and fintech capabilities globally,” said Chris Beck, CEO. “The convergence of financial services, technology, and digital transformation is reshaping leadership needs across the industry, and Alex brings the experience, market connectivity, and perspective that spans the board to the start-up to help clients navigate that evolution. His addition further strengthens our position in London and across key international markets, and we’re delighted to welcome him to the team.”
“Alex is a highly regarded advisor with deep expertise at the intersection of financial services, technology, and fintech,” said Paul Heller and Glenn Buggy, global managing partners of Caldwell’s financial services practice. “His ability to advise clients on transformational leadership needs across banking, payments, insurance, and digital financial services makes him an exceptional addition to our team. Alex combines strong sector knowledge with a thoughtful, strategic advisory style that aligns closely with the way Caldwell partners with clients globally.”
Mr. Langridge brings more than 20 years of executive search and leadership advisory experience, partnering with banks, insurers, fintechs, and private equity- and venture-backed businesses across the U.K. and EMEA. He is particularly known for placing P&L, operations, commercial, product, technology, and digital leaders into high-impact transformational roles, as well as for helping clients build diverse, future-ready leadership teams in fast-evolving markets.
Over the course of his career, Mr. Langridge has advised FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 companies, global financial institutions, and high-growth investor-backed businesses on executive and board-level hiring. He has built fintech and digital leadership practices within multiple executive search firms and has completed searches spanning technology, operations, product, cyber, commercial, and general management leadership functions. His work includes advising later-stage growth businesses, challenger banks, insurers, exchanges, payments platforms, and private equity-backed organizations on leadership succession and organizational effectiveness.
Prior to joining Caldwell, Mr. Langridge led the financial services practice at Savannah Group focused on banking, fintech, insurance, and investor-backed businesses. Earlier in his career, he built and led technology, digital, and fintech search capabilities within specialist executive search firms and also served in-house with a high-growth fintech company.
Addition in Madrid
Caldwell has also named Gabino Stuyck as a partner in the firm’s consumer practice. Based in Madrid, Mr. Stuyck’s appointment expands Caldwell’s presence in Europe and strengthens the firm’s capabilities across consumer, private equity, technology, sports, and digital transformation leadership assignments globally. “We are very pleased to welcome Gabino to Caldwell and our European team,” said Mr. Beck. “His international client relationships and experience across Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, and North America strongly complement the markets where Caldwell already serves clients and has established partner presence. His deep private equity relationships and track record advising organizations through transformational growth further strengthen our ability to help clients build exceptional leadership teams across industries and geographies.”
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“Gabino brings an exceptional international perspective and a highly relationship-driven approach to executive search that aligns strongly with how we serve our clients,” said Kelly Blair, managing partner of Caldwell’s consumer practice. “His deep expertise advising broad consumer-facing and private equity organizations on critical C-suite and board appointments, combined with his experience across multiple global markets, will be tremendously valuable to clients navigating growth, transformation, and increasingly complex leadership decisions. Just as importantly, Gabino’s entrepreneurial mindset and collaborative style make him an outstanding addition to our culture and our global consumer practice.”
Mr. Stuyck advises private equity firms, portfolio companies, and global organizations on senior executive and board appointments across Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, and North America. With more than 17 years of executive search experience and more than 200 completed mandates worldwide, he is recognized for building high-impact leadership teams in investor-backed, high-growth, and transformational environments.
His work spans a broad range of sectors including consumer, retail, technology, digital, financial services, healthcare, sports, and industrials. Mr. Stuyck has extensive experience leading searches for CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, COOs, chief digital officers, and board directors for multinational corporations, family-owned enterprises, sovereign-backed organizations, and private equity portfolio companies.
Prior to joining Caldwell, Mr. Stuyck was an equity partner at N2Growth, where he specialized in private equity and portfolio leadership assignments across multiple industries. Earlier in his career, he held senior leadership roles at leading international executive search firms and began his professional career with Citigroup in Dubai.
Caldwell Partners is a retained executive search and leadership advisory firm headquartered in Toronto that recruits board, CEO, and other senior executive leaders for clients across multiple industries in North America and Europe. The firm is publicly traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
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Contributed by Scott A. Scanlon, Editor-in-Chief and Dale M. Zupsansky, Executive Editor – Hunt Scanlon Media
