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Occam Places Natalie Holles as CEO of Aura Biosciences

Occam Recruits Board Director and SAB Member to In Vivo Cell Therapy Leader, Umoja Biopharma

CIO Placed for Global Health Investment Corporation by Occam

AI Leader Recruited for Top Ten Pharma

Key Business Development Executive Placement Expands Occam's Public Biotech Practice

Occam Places CEO Shakti Narayan, JD, PhD for Oncology Biotech Accent Therapeutics

Occam Recruits Ruben Tommasi, PhD as Chief Scientific Officer for Entact Bio

Occam Recruits Human Capital Partner for Prominent Healthcare PE/VC Investor

Occam's Tech Practice Places CRO at Engageli, a Collaborative SW Developer

Occam’s Global Tech Practice Continues to Expand, Placing Daniel Delubac as COO & CTO at Chemify

Occam’s UK Practice Expands, Placing Swati Chatterjee as SVP Sales & Business Development of Chemify

Occam’s European TechBio Practice Accelerates with the Recruitment of Nucleome CEO Mark Bodmer, PhD

Occam’s Board Practice Continues to Flourish

Occam Recruits CEO of Prominent Rare Disease Research Foundation

Occam Places Tim Trost as CFO at Werewolf

Occam Places Richard Beckman as CMO at Adverum

Occam Recruits Sanjeev Luther as President and CEO of Eterna Therapeutics

Occam Places Rabia Gurses Ozden as Board Member at Adverum

Occam Places Radu Dobrin as CTO of Deep Genomics

Occam Places Phil Tagari as CSO at insitro

Occam Places R&D Leader David Mauro as CMO at Recursion

Occam Places Paul Thibodeau as CBO of Hotspot

Occam Places Paul Audhya as CMO of KalVista

Occam Places Juan Estupinan as CFO at Vestaron

Occam Places Nick Pullen as CSO of ARTBIO

Occam Places Kevin Coveney as CFO of Enveric Biosciences

Occam Places John Reynders as Chief Data Sciences Officer of Neumora

Occam Places Jevan Soo Lenox as Chief People Officer at insitro

Occam Places Jeff Goater as Board Chair of AviadoBio

Occam Places Hans Bitter as SVP & Head, Data Sciences at MOMA

Occam Places Jeb Ledell as COO at Aveo Oncology

Occam Places Gurpreet Ratra as CBO at Skyline

Occam Places Geoff McDonough as CEO of Generation Bio

Occam Places Gates Foundation Leader as CEO at Variant Bio

Occam Places General Counsel for Public Biopharma KalVista Pharmaceuticals

Occam Places Eva Jack as COO of Hotspot

Occam Places Gary Glick as Chairman at CHARM Therapeutics

Occam Places Emily Conley as CEO of FederationBio

Occam Places Emily Conley on the Board of Nuvalent

Occam Places Emile Nuwaysir as CEO of Ensoma

Occam Places Sana Hafeez as Head of People at Unlearn

Occam Places Ryan Kelly as Chief Communications Officer at Recursion

Occam Places Matthew Gall as CFO of iTeos Therapeutics

Occam Places Lisa Deschamps as CEO of AviadoBio

Occam Places Dan Kemp as CEO of Shinobi Therapeutics

Occam Places Ed Koval as CBO at Geron

Occam Places John McDonald on Board of Geron

Occam Places Edith Hessel as CSO and Lindsay Edwards as CTO at Relation Therapeutics

Occam Places David Mullarkey as CEO at Bluestar

Occam Places Colin McCracken as CEO at Evonetix

Occam Places Craig Thompson as CEO at Cerevance

Occam Places Chris Haqq as Head of R&D at Elicio Therapeutics

Occam Places CFO for Prominent Swiss Biotech Alentis

Occam Places Bimal Shah as CFO of Corium

Occam Places Carolyn Haley as COO at F-Prime Capital

Occam Global Places CMO of EveryONE Medicines

Occam Recruits Kim Blackwell to Board of NVIDIA-Backed Charm Therapeutics

Occam Recruits CEO for Drug Discovery Platform Company

Occam Recruits CMO for In Vivo Cell Therapy Leader Umoja Biopharma

Occam Recruits Laurent Fischer as Chair of Shinobi Therapeutics

Regulatory Executive Placed by Occam for TechBio Leader Recursion

Occam Recruits Chief Commercial Officer at Geron

Occam Places Prominent Scientific Leader at High Profile Neuro Startup

Occam Recruits Head of BD for Latent Labs

Distinguished Healthcare Leaders Placed on Board of Recursion by Occam

Occam's Strategic Partnership with Geron Continues with the Placement of Head of R&D

Board Recruitment by Occam Global for Clinical Stage Oncology Innovator

Occam’s UK Biotech Practice Accelerates with Placement of CSO at Nucleome

Occam Recruits CRO for Renewable Water Innovator, SOURCE

Occam Recruits Sales and Operations Leader to the Board of Geron

Occam Places Andreas Grauer as CMO at Federation Bio

Occam Recruits Senior Pharma Executive to the Board of Geron

Silicon Valley Leader Placed by Occam Global as CTO of Chemify

Occam Places Chief Legal Officer at Public Oncology Biotech

Occam Places Chief Legal Officer at Public Obesity Biotech, Metsera

CBO Recruited for UK-Based LabGenius by Occam Global

Occam Places CSO of ADC Biotech MBrace Therapeutics

Occam Places Bill Brondyk as CSO at Invetx

Occam Recruits Brent Warner as CEO for Protego Biopharma

Occam Places CEO for RadioPharm Start-Up

Occam Places Jim Burns as CEO of Ensoma

Occam Places Biotech Leader David Southwell as Chairman of Revolo Biotherapeutics

Occam's UK TechBio Recruiting Team Places CCO for Basecamp Research

Annette Matthies as CBO at Elicio Therapeutics

Occam Enhances CytomX's Board with Experienced Physician Executive

CEO of TechBio Platform Company Recruited by Occam Global

Occam's Partnership with LabGenius Endures with the Placement of CSO

Occam's AI Practice Expands with the Recruitment of Dr. Rajiv Patni as Strategic Clinical Advisor to BioXcel Therapeutics

Occam Recruits Translational Leader for Gene Editing Leader Mammoth

CBO Recruited for Leading AIDD Biotech Envisagenics

Occam Recruits Former FDA Commissioner to Faeth Therapeutics

Occam Places Amgen CMO on Board of Moonwalk

Occam Recruits Michael Miller to the Board of BioXcel

Occam Places CEO for Clinical-Stage Immunology Company

Chief Strategy & Financial Officer Recruited to Elicio by Occam Global

Occam Recruits David Moller as Chief Scientific Officer of Variant Bio

Occam Recruits Sapna Srivastava to the Board of Nuvalent

Occam Recruits CSO for Public Gene Therapy Company, Adverum

Occam Recruits Daphne Karydas to the Board of Elicio

Occam Places Wall Street Dynamo and Luminary Leader as CFO at Beam Therapeutics

Latest Placements

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Natalie Holles
5.4.26
Occam Places Natalie Holles as CEO of Aura Biosciences
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Athena Countouriotis & Andrew C. Chan
3.25.26
Occam Recruits Board Director and SAB Member to In Vivo Cell Therapy Leader, Umoja Biopharma
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Marcus Schindler
3.3.26
Occam Recruits Former CSO of Novo Nordisk to Advisory Board of Cradle
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Craig T. Basson
1.21.26
Occam Places CMO and President of R&D at Variant Bio

A COMMITTED PARTNER FOR CRITICAL LEADERSHIP DECISIONS

EXECUTIVE RECRUITING ROOTED IN CREATIVITY, CLARITY, AND PRINCIPLED JUDGMENT

ENDURING COMMITMENT

Relationships, not transactions

  • Senior-led, end-to-end
  • No handoffs, no volume model
  • Every search is treated in a bespoke fashion, as a high-stakes leadership decision
  • Selective about the searches we take on - and uncompromising about the ones we do

A CREATIVE PROCESS

Beyond the usual suspects

  • Unmatched network of top-tier talent, accompanied by diligent research
  • Thoughtful expansion into adjacent industries when it adds value
  • Experimental mindset - multiple paths to a solution

TRANSPARENT DIALOGUE

Clear process. Clear progress.

  • Objective, comprehensive, and frequent updates
  • Candor over comfort
  • Sober opinions and a milestone-driven structure
  • Commitment to building mutual trust, with long-term partnership as the key

WORDS FROM CLIENTS

Josh Wolfe

Occam has been a great and valued recruiting partner for Lux.

Occam has been a great and valued recruiting partner for Lux. They impress with business moxie, psychological acuity, ruthless objectivity and speed. A team and search firm apart.

Josh Wolfe

Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Lux Capital

Terry-Ann Burrell

They know the biotech world inside and out.

Occam approaches their difficult and delicate task with uncommon, if not unique, respect for the candidate and client alike. They know the biotech world inside and out. A firm of consummate professionals.

Terry-Ann Burrell

Vice Chairman, JP Morgan

Clive Meanwell

We trust Bill and his talented team.

Occam stands out in my experience with the search industry in terms of its unrelenting thoughtfulness and commitment to results. At Population Health, we trust Bill and his talented team because of their consistently astute and ethical judgment on people and situations and their enduring commitment to produce mutually beneficial results. And their sense of humor is the icing on the cake.

Clive Meanwell

Chairman & Partner, Population Health Partners

Daphne Koller

We are consistently impressed by Occam's ability to deliver excellent results.

Building a company with a transformative mission requires having the very best people on your team from the very start. That requires a trusted partner who understands both the high-level strategic vision and the details of what it takes to succeed. Occam’s partnership in identifying and recruiting leaders for key positions at insitro has helped us close critical and hard-to-fill roles across scientific and corporate functions. We are consistently impressed by Occam's ability to deliver excellent results, which has enabled our continued growth and evolution.

Daphne Koller

Founder & CEO, insitro

Lee Cronin

The firm has been a true partner to Chemify.

My journey as an entrepreneur has begun with Chemify. I met Occam at an inflection point in realizing the dream. The firm has decisively helped me reify my vision and make it an organizational reality. John and Bill know what it takes to recognize and attract top flight talent with the requisite level of imagination. Their practice is unpretentiously cosmopolitan, uncompromisingly ethical, effortlessly generous and meaningfully strategic. The firm has been a true partner to Chemify.

Lee Cronin

Founder & CEO, Chemify

Chris Gibson

Occam has been a formidable recruiting partner for Recursion.

Occam has been a formidable recruiting partner for Recursion. Over the past three years, they have helped us make key additions to the senior executive team and board. The firm has consistently provided a unique blend of nuanced and ethical judgment, tireless and creative effort, and strategic insight in helping us develop a holistic organizational plan as Recursion has evolved.

Chris Gibson

Founder & CEO, Recursion Pharmaceuticals

Laksh Aithani

Occam played a pivotal role in the build of CHARM Therapeutics.

Occam played a pivotal role in the build of CHARM Therapeutics with the critical placement of our Executive Chairman, Gary Glick.

Laksh Aithani

Founder & CEO CHARM Therapeutics

Lisa Deschamps

Occam is an extraordinary recruiter.

Occam is an extraordinary recruiter. This special quality comes from their manifest empathy and emotional intelligence as well as procedural rigor. It was they who recruited me into my current role as a first-time CEO at Aviado. In that process, I always felt transparency and concern for me as a person as they assiduously cultivated my candidacy. Subsequently, I engaged Occam in adding a Chairman for my Board. They delivered a formidable result in a nuanced and differentiated fashion.

Lisa Deschamps

CEO, AviadoBio

Alex Dickinson

Occam stands apart for their rigorously applied intelligence.

I know Occam well, over time and from two different perspectives. The firm has placed me on two Boards, one small but rapidly growing private diagnostic company, the other a large diversified public CRO. I have also engaged them to recruit two key executives, a CEO and a CCO, for a cancer diagnostic company which I started. Occam stands apart for their rigorously applied intelligence, consistent work ethic and deeply useful understanding of human nature.

Alex Dickinson

Founder & Board Member, ChromaCode

Doug Melton

The search exercise that Occam developed and led was fluidly interactive.

I observed Bill’s work as the founder and a Board member of Semma. He helped us recruit a very effective Chief Executive Officer. Bastiano Sanna was able to reset the strategy, build the organization and ultimately sell the company to Vertex for almost $1 billion. The search exercise that Occam developed and led was fluidly interactive, intelligent, nuanced and thorough. Among Occam’s strengths, I would highlight the engaged nature and thoughtful listening the Occam team brings to the process.

Doug Melton

Founder, Semma Therapeutics, Xander University Professor

Frederic Kerrest

Occam is the search firm that matches the entrepreneurial intensity of its clients.

Thorough, tireless, and professional, and they listen. Occam is the search firm that matches the entrepreneurial intensity of its clients. Results delivered with intelligence, urgency and style.

Frederic Kerrest

COO & Co-Founder, Okta

Carol Gallagher

Occam is well-connected with C-suite and board talent.

Occam is well-connected with C-suite and board talent. They brought us great candidates and were very helpful in the vetting and referencing process. They know the life sciences industry well!

Carol Gallagher

Venture Advisor, NEA Former CEO, Calistoga Pharma

INDUSTRY EXPERTISE

LIFE SCIENCES

Partner with the premier life science executive search firm, placing transformative leaders across biotech, medtech, and advanced therapeutics

DEFENSE TECH

Secure the mission by recruiting the elite executives translating innovation into national security capability across space, directed energy, and biodefense

DEEP TECH

Appoint the executives capable of converting frontier tech into lasting enterprise value

VENTURE CAPITAL

Build high-impact leadership teams across portfolio companies and investment platforms

ROBOTICS

Identify transformative executives who lead breakthroughs in automation, mechatronics, autonomous technologies, and advanced manufacturing

AI

Secure the strategic leaders ready to operationalize and scale your AI-driven transformation

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LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR DISTINCTIVE APPROACH

What is the global reach of Occam Global's executive search services?

With associates in key innovation hubs New York City, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, we successfully place C-suite executives and board members for clients across the US and Europe.

Beyond executive search, what other leadership services does Occam Global offer?

In addition to global executive recruiting and board placement, we provide leadership advisory services to help shape and strengthen your organization's C-suite growth strategies through strategic partnerships and funding resources.

What is Occam Global's core expertise in executive search?

We are specialists in recruiting C-suite executives and board members for the life science, deep tech, robotics and defense tech industries. We also serve a select group of high-growth technology clients and venture capital firms, uniquely positioning us for techbio executive search.

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