Insight & Intelligence™ : Mar 19, 2013
24 Biotech and Biopharma Recruiters
Meet the headhunters.
Even the biggest biotech and biopharma companies need a little help sometimes finding good staff. That’s where recruiters come in; from temp workers to new executives, a good recruiter can always find the right person for the job. So, what recruiters are out there?
GEN presents a list of recruiters for biotechnology and pharmaceutical positions, unranked and listed in alphabetical order, and based on information furnished by the companies on their websites and other publicly available material, including their LinkedIn and Twitter pages and press announcements. Each recruiter is listed with its address, phone number, description of its services, top executive, and year established.
Advanced Clinical
Address: 10 Parkway North, Suite 350, Deerfield, IL 60015. West Coast office: 570 Pacific Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94133
Phone number(s): Corporate HQ, Strategic Sourcing (CRO Solutions): (847) 267-1176. Corporate HQ, Talent Management: (877) 995-9222. West Coast office: (415) 358-2400
Services: Provider of full-service CRO and strategic resourcing solutions for the life sciences industry
Website: www.advancedclinical.com
Top executive: Leo Sheridan, CEO and president
Year established: 1988
Allen-Jeffers Associates
Address: 28512 Las Arubas, Laguna Niguel, CA 92677
Phone number(s): (949) 643-2146
Services: Executive and technical search firm dedicated to serving pharmaceutical and other industries
Website: www.allen-jeffersassoc.com
Top executive: Bob Jeffers, president and founder
Year established: 1978
BattaliaWinston
Address: 555 Madison Avenue, 19th Floor, New York, NY 10022. Additional offices in Boston; Chicago; Edison, NJ; and Washington, D.C.
Phone number(s): (212) 308-8080
Services: Executive search services for industries that include the life sciences. One of the world’s largest woman-owned executive search firms
Website: www.battaliawinston.com
Top executive: Dale Winston, CEO and chairwoman
Year established: 1963
BioQuest
Address: Northern California office: 100 Spear Street, Suite 1125, San Francisco, CA 94105. Southern California office: 1420 Bristol Street North, Suite 230, Newport Beach, CA 92660
Phone number(s): (415) 777-2422. Southern California office: (949) 488-8018
Services: Executive search services focused exclusively on the top two management tiers (CEO and all functional VPs), in addition to board searches, for the life sciences industry, including biopharmaceutical and diagnostics employers
Website: www.bioquestinc.com
Top executive: Karen Bertrand, senior vp, Biopharmaceutical Practice leader
Year established: 1985
BLG Executive Search
Address: Wilhelm-Leuschner-Straße 10, 60329 Frankfurt am Main
Phone number(s): +49 (0) 69 380 78 76 00
Services: Executive search recruitment consultants searching for candidates across Europe to fill positions in diagnostics and medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and biotech
Website: www.blg-es.com
Top executive: Pim van de Riet, managing director and chairman of the board
Bowdoin Group
Address: 40 William Street, Wellesley, MA 02481
Phone number(s): (781) 263-5200
Services: Full-service executive search and consulting firm serving industry sectors that include life sciences and biotech. Functional areas include clinical development, commercial operations, corporate/business, development, discovery & nonclinical development, engineering, facilities, manufacturing, medical affairs, quality, regulatory affairs, sales, marketing, and IT
Website: bowdoingroup.com
Top executive: Dave Melville, CEO and founder
Year established: 1994
Clark Executive Search
Address: 135 N. Ferry Road, PO Box 560, Shelter Island, NY 11964
Phone number(s): (631) 749-3540
Services: Executive search firm recruiting senior talent for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Specialization in R&D. Firm recruits only M.D. or Ph.D. candidates at a senior level with a minimum of several years’ work experience past graduate school
Website: clarksearch.com
Top executive: Ellen Clark, president
Year established: 1997
Cornerstone Search Group
Address: 6 Campus Drive, Parsippany, NJ 07054
Phone number(s): (973) 656-0220
Services: Specialized pharmaceutical and biotechnology executive search and recruitment firm. Focuses on attracting and hiring accomplished professionals from experienced staff levels through the senior leadership involved with the discovery, development, and commercialization of drugs/therapeutic treatments for the U.S. and international markets
Website: www.cornerstonesg.com
Top executive: Cliff F. Miras, co-founder & managing partner; Steven Y. Raz, co-founder & managing partner
Year established: 2000
Craig Tanner & Associates
Address: 993 South Santa Fe, Vista, CA 92083
Phone number(s): (760) 598-3363
Services: Executive search firm recruiting for positions in biotechnology companies, and large pharmaceutical companies
Website: www.biotechsearch.com
Top executive: Craig Tanner, founder and CEO
Year established: 1984
HireLifeScience.com
Address: 15 E. Branch Road, Allentown, NJ 08501
Phone number(s): (609) 208-2401
Services: Employment resource and networking tool for the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, life science and medical device industries. Works exclusively with direct employer clients seeking to fill positions in categories that include R&D, clinical research associate, chemist, scientist, biology, oncology, regulatory affairs, biostatistician, medical writer, laboratory, quality assurance, quality control, sales & marketing, manufacturing, and medical communication
Website: www.hirelifescience.com
Top executive: Rob Masterson, president
Year established: 2004
HireMinds
Address: East Coast: 222 Third Street, Suite 0350, Cambridge, MA 02142. West Coast: 524 Union Street, San Francisco, CA 94133
Phone number(s): East Coast office: (617) 252-0606. West Coast office: (415) 762-0092
Services: Search firm focused on industries that include the life sciences; Job specialties include Scientists and research associates, preclinical / lab animal medicine / veterinary science, chemistry, protein purification, process development, process engineering, quality assurance, quality control, regulatory affairs, manufacturing, clinical research, project management, facilities, and engineering/EH&S
Website: www.hireminds.net/about.aspx
Top executive: David Hayes, president and founder
Year established: 1998
Joseph Associates
Address: 229 Main St. Huntington, NY 11743
Phone number(s): (631) 351-5805
Services: Provide companies with personnel to fill positions that include biostatisticians, clinical development, computational biologists, drug safety, epidemiologists, HEOR specialists, medical directors, directors of pharmaco-epidemiology and pharmacovigilance, statisticians
Website: www.jaexecutivesearch.com
Top executive: Joe Nakelski, president
Year established: 1986
Kelly Staffing Services
Address: 999 West Big Beaver Road, Troy, MI 48084-4782. Asia-Pacific HQ: 20 Anson Road, #05-03, Singapore 079912. Europe-Middle East-Africa HQ: 20, Avenue Edouard-Dubois - CP 48, CH - 2006 Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Phone number(s): U.S. office: (248) 362-4444. Asia-Pacific HQ: +656494 6060. Europe-Middle East-Africa HQ: +4132 737 18 00
Services: Provider of outsourcing and consulting services, as well as staffing on a temporary, temporary-to-hire, and direct-hire basis
Website: www.kellyservices.com/Global/Science
Top executive: Carl T. Camden, president and CEO
Year established: 1946
Kuhn Med-Tech
Address: 27128 Paseo Espada, San Juan Capestrano, CA 92675
Phone number(s): (949) 600-8365
Services: Executive search consultants for biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and medical device positions at companies worldwide; Positions include R&D, manufacturing, engineering, marketing/sales, senior management, regulatory/clinical affairs, and quality
Website: www.kuhnmed-tech.com
Top executive: Bob Jeffers, president; Larry A. Kuhn, founder
Year established: 1979
Life Science Search Partners
Address: 145. S Livernois, Suite 240, Rochester Hills, MI 48307
Phone number(s): (888) 303-3960
Interviewing offices in Boston, Dallas-Austin, Detroit (Troy, MI), Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, Raleigh-Durham, San Diego, and Toronto
Services: National executive search and recruiting firm specializing in strategic placements within the biotechnology and pharmaceutical sectors; Executing complex and discreet searches for multinational corporations, start-ups and companies in turnaround situations; division of JMJ Phillip
Website: lifesciencesearch.com
Top executive: Ryan Goff, executive director
Year established: 2009
Life Search Technologies
Address: 11350 McCormick Road—Executive Plaza 3, Suite 1001, Hunt Valley, MD 21030
Phone number(s): (410) 785-6313 or (800) 785-2144
Services: Executive search firm providing staffing solutions for biotechnology. Focuses on drug discovery positions in molecular/cell biology; genomics; proteomics; immunology; protein chemistry; chromatography; mass spectrometry; high-throughput screening (HTS); microarray; instrumentation; bioinformatics; image analysis equipment; lab supplies
Website: lifesearchtech.com
Top executive: Glenn Davis, president
Year established: 2002
MEI RxRS (Med Exec International, Rx Research Staffing divisions)
Address: 100 N. Brand Blvd., Suite 306-309, Glendale, CA 91203
Phone number(s): (800) 507-5277
Services: MEI: Recruitment for top-echelon executive and vp-level positions in clinical research, regulatory affairs, quality assurance, and medical affairs. Rx RS: Full-service staffing solutions for life sciences industry
Website: www.meirxrs.com/medexec-international-healthcare-recruiters
www.meirxrs.com/rx-research-staffing
Top executive: Rosemarie Christopher, founder, president and CEO
Year established: 1992
Sanford Rose Associates - San Francisco
Address: 2333 San Ramon Valley Blvd., Suite 175, San Ramon, CA 94583
Phone number(s): (925) 837-5800
Services: A boutique-retained executive search firm focused on life sciences that partners with organizations to find director, vp, and C-level executives. Functions covered include R&D, manufacturing, sales, marketing, business development, finance, IT, bioinformatics, regulatory and medical affairs, and general management
Website: www.sanfordrose.com/sanfrancisco
Top executive: Rich Carter, president
Year established: 1999
Scientific Search
Address: 101 East Gate Drive, Cherry Hill, NJ 08034
Phone number(s): (856) 761-0900
Services: Full-service employment agency offering multiple staffing options for pharmaceutical & biotech professionals in the Philadelphia, New Jersey, New York markets
Website: scientificsearch.com
Top executive: Joseph Peters, president
Year established: 1983
Sharpstream Life Sciences
Address: 18 Mansell Street, 1st Floor, London, E1 8AA, U.K. North America: 111 Presidential Blvd, Suite 240, Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004. China: Room 318, Building 1, 1287 Shangcheng Road, Pudong New Area, Shanghai 200120,
Phone number(s): +44 207 553 2370. North America office: (484) 567-2900. China office: +86 21 6058 5938
Services: Provider of search services for executive to middle managers in the life sciences sector globally
Website: www.sharpstream.com
Top executive: Nick Bellwood, managing director, U.K.; Craig Natale, managing director, U.S.
Year established: 1999; acquired 2010 by On Assignment, founded 1985
Shaw Associates
Address: 11206 Callaway Greens Drive, Suite 100, Fort Myers, FL 33913-8139
Phone number(s): (239) 454-4414
Services: Executive search firm serving the pharmaceutical, and biotech industries. Areas of specialty include analytical, auditing, business development, manufacturing, product development, QA/QC, regulatory affairs, and technical services
Website: shawassociates.com/contact.html
Top executive: Gregory Shaw, president
Year established: 1995
Simply Biotech
Address: 11858 Bernardo Plaza Court, Suite 230, San Diego, CA 92128
Phone number(s): (858) 487-0507
Services: Recruiting firm dedicated exclusively to the biotech industry in San Diego. Candidates placed for contract, contract-to-hire, and permanent positions.
Website: www.simplybiotech.com
Top executive: Travis Medley, president
Year established: 2008
Valesta Clinical Research Solutions
Address: 26745 Malibu Hills Road Calabasas, CA 91301. Additional offices in Belgium (Mechelen and Mont-Saint-Guibert), Spain (Barcelona and Madrid), and the Netherlands (’s-Hertogenbosch)
Phone number(s): (800) 445-2465
Services: Specializes in filling scientific and clinical research positions in biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical device, and related industries. Places candidates at all career levels in contract, contract-to-hire, and direct hire opportunities
Website: us.valesta.com
Top executive: Peter Dameris, CEO and president, On Assignment
Year established: 2011; formed by acquisition of Belgian-owned Valesta, founded 1997, by On Assignment, founded 1985; On Assignment combined Valesta with its clinical research division, which incorporates The Cambridge Group, founded 1976
Witt / Kieffer
Address: 2015 Spring Road, Suite 510, Oak Brook, IL 60523
Phone number(s): (888) 281-1370
Services: Executive search firm serving life sciences companies—including pharmaceutical, biotech, diagnostics corporations—and other employers
Website: www.wittkieffer.com/biotech
Top executive: John McLean, managing director, central region, and Life Sciences Practice leader
Year established: 1969
The companies listed are among top recruiters as established from Internet searches or publicly available online lists of biopharma recruiters, but do not constitute a list of all biopharma recruiters.