Banking Recruiting Built on Relationships and Results
Al Ki (al-KAI) Consultants is a nationwide banking recruiting and executive search firm specializing in community and regional banks, credit unions, and select financial services organizations. Since entering recruiting in 2015, President & CEO Alex de Golia has focused on connecting financial institutions with professionals across commercial lending, C&I, SBA, deposits, treasury management, credit, operations, and executive leadership.
We believe great recruiting goes well beyond matching a resume to a job description. We dig into the true needs of each organization: its culture, market, growth strategy, leadership style, and the technical and interpersonal qualities required for someone to succeed. Each conversation and interview helps us refine the search until we understand not simply who can do the job, but who fits the organization.
Our approach is intentionally relationship-driven. For clients, that means becoming a recruiting partner who understands the business rather than securing a placement and moving on. For candidates, it means understanding their experience, motivations, and long-term goals so that when the right opportunity emerges, the conversation already has a foundation.
Meet the Founder
Alex de Golia
President & CEO | Banking Recruiter
Alex de Golia has specialized in banking recruiting since 2015. Before founding Al Ki Consultants in 2021, he spent more than six years with Management Recruiters of Coeur d’Alene, progressing from Executive Recruiter to Vice President while building a national network throughout the banking industry.
Over the course of his recruiting career, Alex has worked with community banks, regional banks, credit unions, and financial services organizations across the United States. His searches have ranged from commercial relationship managers and business development officers to market presidents, department heads, and C-suite executives.
Alex founded Al Ki Consultants around a simple idea: recruiting works best when the recruiter genuinely understands the client, the candidate, and the market connecting them. That relationship-driven approach remains at the center of every search.
Career Recognition: CSAM of the Year (2020) · Four-Time Pacesetter (2017, 2019, 2020, 2021)
Impactful Placements
A successful search is measured by what happens after the placement. Here are a few examples of banking professionals we've recruited—from individual producers and specialized bankers to market leaders and C-suite executives; and the roles they've been selected to lead.
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Placed an experienced commercial banking leader to build and lead a major regional market for a multibillion-dollar, family-owned bank. Since joining in 2022, he has helped expand the bank's commercial presence, build out the team, and serve middle-market and privately held businesses across C&I lending, commercial real estate, deposits, and treasury management.
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Placed a President & CEO who helped lead a community bank through significant growth and an evolving banking environment. During his tenure, the bank grew to approximately $1 billion in assets, maintained strong credit quality, generated meaningful organic loan growth, and strengthened its executive leadership team. His tenure culminated in a strategic merger creating a combined institution with nearly $3 billion in assets.
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Placed an experienced HOA banking relationship manager with more than 15 years of deposit, treasury management, and property-management banking experience into a growing Association Banking platform. The banker brought a track record averaging approximately $25 million in annual new deposits along with established relationships throughout the HOA and property-management ecosystem.
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Placed an experienced private banking executive to lead the buildout of a new high-net-worth banking market for a growing bank. The executive brought more than two decades of banking and lending experience serving HNW and UHNW families, entrepreneurs, family offices, and their advisors. He now leads the bank's flagship market expansion across customized lending, deposits, and relationship-driven private banking.
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Placed an experienced loan operations executive to lead operational strategy and build scalable processes for a growing bank. The executive brought more than 20 years of banking experience spanning commercial and private banking operations, loan boarding and servicing, quality control, escrow, and complex system conversions—including leadership through a 12,000+ account conversion. She now leads the bank's loan operations function as it continues to grow and expand its platform.