Founded in 2000 with a laser focus on life sciences alone, Cornerstone Search Group offers specialized executive search practices dedicated to this vital industry’s diverse functional areas.
As a result of our constant focus on one industry, Cornerstone Search Group’s dedicated Executive Search Practices span the entire spectrum of life sciences, from bench to bedside to C-Suite.
Our diverse C-Suite & Executive Leadership Practice has managed retained searches for companies of every shape and size. From a start-up hiring employee number one, to a 100,000-person global organization looking to establish a new leadership regime, and everything in between.
Chief medical officers, EVPs and SVPs of clinical development, heads of medical affairs and various other physician leaders at the executive director, senior director and director-level. Our Physician Leadership Practice has been led by the same Senior Partner for over 20 years.
This was our first established practice area of expertise, started in 2001. Since then, Cornerstone has been placing leaders, building out teams and mapping future talent across clinical development, medical affairs, clinical operations, RWE, program/project management, data sciences, HEOR, regulatory affairs, drug safety and biometrics.
Cornerstone’s Commercial Practice expertise is highlighted by an industry-leading HEOR, Market Access, P&R and Data Sciences Team that has been dedicated to these highly specialized fields for over 15 years. We have further expertise across marketing and sales leadership and sales rep expansions.
Cornerstone Search Group’s R&D/Sciences Practice has led retained searches, build-outs, talent/market mapping and other unique solutions for Top-5 Big Pharma, mid-sized biotech, start-ups and everything in between. Our expertise spans research, biology, pharmacology, translational medicine, biomarkers, data sciences/bioinformatics, preclinical, genomics and AI learning.
Given our better than 20 years of strictly focused life sciences experience, Cornerstone has developed extensive expertise aligned across corporate functions including human resources, talent acquisition, accounting & finance, legal, investor relations and corporate communications.
Our manufacturing & operations expertise spans the globe. We have led large expansion projects, retained search assignments and talent mapping for a diverse client pool since 2009 across manufacturing, operations, science/technology (MSAT), CMC, quality and engineering.