Mercedes Chatfield-Taylor

Partner

Mercedes Chatfield-Taylor is the leader of Caldwell Partners’ Venture Capital Practice and a member of the technology and telecommunications team. She focuses on executive level search for high growth technology companies with deep expertise in software as a service, internet, ecommerce, gaming and other consumer technology. Mercedes has completed over 50 CEO searches as well as other CXO level assignments for her clients.

Prior to joining Caldwell, Mercedes held leadership positions at executive search firms Heidrick & Struggles, Highland Partners, and iCOM Consultants, an emerging technologies boutique she co-founded in 1999 to address the unique hiring needs of venture-backed technology companies.

Before founding iCOM, Mercedes was vice president of VF&Co, a Silicon Valley-based HR consulting firm where she established and managed their executive search practice. Prior to that, she was VP of marketing for XL Insurance, a global excess insurance, reinsurance and financial risk-management company, with holdings of over US$13 billion. Mercedes managed XL’s marketing efforts at their head office in Bermuda before moving to Sydney, Australia to open the company's first office in the Pacific Rim and lead the firm’s efforts to impact the difficult Asian/Pacific insurance and financial risk management industry.

Mercedes is a graduate of Boston University, where she received a BA in business communications and a BFA in graphic design.