The people behind the work.

Senior leaders who have built and run life sciences companies, supported by a wider team on every engagement.

Leadership

Bharath Kumandan

Founding Partner, Operations

About 20 years in life sciences across consulting (Accenture), investment banking (Leerink Partners) and operations. Joined Alios BioPharma before its $1.75B acquisition by J&J, then co-founded Aligos Therapeutics and built its operations from five people to about 100 through its 2020 IPO. Later built finance, HR, recruiting and IT as Gordian Biotechnology’s first operations hire.

  • Operations
  • Raise
  • Procurement

Justin Hotle

Partner, Finance

About 15 years in biotech finance across banking, investing and operating roles. At Gossamer Bio, helped raise more than $1B across Series B, IPO, follow-on, convertible and PIPE financings; earlier, at Leerink Partners, helped raise more than $8B.

  • Finance
  • Raise

Omi Abraham

Partner, Talent

10+ years building and scaling talent functions at Uber, Netflix, LinkedIn, Riveron and PwC. Built Riveron’s recruiting function as it grew from about 100 to more than 600 employees through two acquisitions; led recruiting technology rollouts at Netflix and Uber. SPHR, PMP.

  • Talent
  • Raise

Bob Lehto

Partner, Human Resources

25+ years in recruiting and HR, with teams in more than ten countries. As an early HR leader, scaled Imperfect Foods from 85 to 450 employees and OkCoin from 25 to more than 150 across four countries; advises four startups that have raised $117M combined.

  • Human Resources
  • Outplacement
  • Raise

Joel Denis

Managing Partner, Foundry Law

Managing Partner of Foundry Law, serving technology and life sciences companies. Formerly in Goodwin’s technology practice and senior in-house counsel at Twist Bioscience and AG1; advises startups on SAFEs and Seed and Series A financings. Licensed in California.

  • Legal
  • Raise

Dev le Roux

Partner, Business Process Outsourcing

Builds offshore talent pipelines for US companies. Founded Cape Atlas Search, placing South African engineers with US startups. Previously a Client Partner at Five9, where partner-led work with systems integrators drove more than $100M in revenue; earlier roles in product marketing and media.

  • BPO

Eric Kin-Ho Lee

Partner, ML / AI Advisory

Leads our work on complex ML and AI applications, including frontier life science models and computational workflows. An AI, product and engineering executive, he co-founded and co-led Dessa, an enterprise AI company acquired by Square, then led machine-learning teams at Cash App and Afterpay, including personalization and search. Trained in engineering and physics.

  • Engineering

Steve Giscombe

Partner, CTO Services

Focuses on the practical application of AI and bespoke tooling, either helping clients build it themselves or building it with AI and a team. A software engineering leader with 17+ years at Microsoft, he rose to Principal Software Engineering Manager, leading teams in Microsoft Gaming, including on the Halo franchise. He built LoopTrack, an AI-powered talent platform, end to end on Claude.

  • Engineering

Talent team

The recruiters and coordinators who run our searches day to day.

Lara Lawson

Director, Talent

15+ years in global talent acquisition and development across tech, biotech, engineering and logistics. Designs and documents scalable recruiting processes and talent pipelines for growing organizations, and trains recruiters, technical interviewers and hiring managers on tools, process and talent strategy. As a solo recruiter at AVIO Consulting, grew headcount 58% year over year with no agency or advertising spend.

  • Talent

Caitlin Merrell

Lead, Talent

12+ years in talent acquisition and early-career programs across tech, biotech and experiential entertainment. Builds scalable pipelines and sourcing and outreach strategies, with a knack for finding unconventional ways to identify candidates and capture their attention, and equips hiring teams with structured interviewing frameworks, sourcing tools and inclusive hiring practices. At Google, grew hiring from Carnegie Mellon by 107% in one season through talent mapping and creative brand activations, making it the company’s top source of technical new graduates.

  • Talent

Matt Fontanilla

Associate, Talent

6+ years in agency and in-house talent acquisition, specializing in life sciences and engineering recruiting. Cares about creating great experiences and strong outcomes for candidates and clients alike, and is always adding new skills to his toolkit.

  • Talent

Sarah Paper

Associate, Talent

Talent specialist focused on biology, computational biology, and operations and commercial roles across multiple clients. Brings 6+ years of stakeholder management and experiential design, plus 5+ years running marketing and engagement campaigns. Studied environmental science and economics at Scripps College (class of 2025).

  • Talent

Marina Heredia

Associate, Talent

10+ years in talent acquisition across IT, localization, G&A and life sciences. Supports end-to-end recruiting, from sourcing and outreach through screening, interviews and offers, while handling the operations, scheduling and coordination that keep hiring moving. Partners with hiring teams on structured screening and interview processes, and recruits globally in Spanish, English and Portuguese.

  • Talent

Matias Safranchik

Associate, Talent

10+ years in biology, combining hands-on wet-lab work in protein engineering and biophysics with computational biology and machine learning. Brings that technical lens to biotech hiring, translating scientific needs into searches and assessing candidates’ expertise. Has collaborated with research groups across Europe, published scientific research and presented at international conferences. Fluent in Spanish, English and Portuguese.

  • Talent

Gabriela Leon

Coordinator, Talent

  • Talent

Anabella Colombo

Coordinator, Talent

  • Talent

Abril Grandinetti

Coordinator, Talent

  • Talent

Partner firms

  • PointPurchasing

    Life sciences requisition-to-pay platform behind our Procurement program. Founder and owner Charles Gebhard has run it for over 25 years and personally oversees each client implementation.

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