• Life Sciences Expertise

    The war for talent is real & new skills will be channeled into life sciences industry now, and in the future. As demand for innovative, more cost-effective and better value healthcare solutions increases, the need for more scientists, engineers and technicians increases.
     
  • Life Sciences Expertise

    The war for talent is real & new skills will be channeled into life sciences industry now, and in the future. As demand for innovative, more cost-effective and better value healthcare solutions increases, the need for more scientists, engineers and technicians increases.
The Life Sciences Practice Group is a global representation of InterSearch countries actively engaged in supporting the InterSearch clients in the following industries:
  • Pharmaceutical
  • Biologics
  • Medical technologies
  • CRO (clinical research organisation)
  • Healthcare
and identifying the best candidates with sector experience in general/division/product management, procurement, materials, manufacturing plants, engineering, quality assurance as well as marketing & sales, HR, finance/administration, logistics.

Life Sciences Group

Group Leader
  • Micheál Coughlan
    Micheál Coughlan
    InterSearch Ireland
M.Coughlan@intersearch.org

Life Sciences Expertise e-brochure

Life Sciences Group – Regional Leaders

Americas
  • Rodrigo Donoso
    Rodrigo Donoso
    InterSearch Argentina
R.F.Donoso@intersearch.org
Asia Pacific
  • Lotika Mahindra
    Lotika Mahindra
    InterSearch India
L.Mahindra@intersearch.org
Asia Pacific – China
  • Florence Hao
    Florence Hao
    InterSearch China
F.Hao@intersearch.org
Central Eastern Europe
  • Yulia Zabazarnykh
    Yulia Zabazarnykh
    InterSearch Russia
Y.Zabazarnykh@intersearch.org
North West Europe & MEA
  • Micheál Coughlan
    Micheál Coughlan
    InterSearch Ireland
M.Coughlan@intersearch.org
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Micheál Coughlan
InterSearch Ireland

Managing Partner of InterSearch Ireland Micheál joined the InterSearch Worldwide Board of Directors in 2017. He began his career with InterSearch Ireland in 1996, becoming Managing Partner in 2010.

He is the initiator of the InterSearch Life Sciences & Healthcare Practice Group, supporting clients and candidates within the pharmaceutical, medical technologies and healthcare sectors.

He has worked with a variety of organizations designing and implementing recruitment strategies for leadership and management appointments. Many of these assignments involve multi-country search.

Micheál joined the Academy team in 2013 where he is responsible for training and development of talent within the InterSearch Worldwide organisation.

Micheál holds a bachelor’s degree in commerce from NUI Galway and a master’s degree in human resources management from the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

Rodrigo Donoso
InterSearch Argentina

Rodrigo Donoso, the Life Sciences Practice Group team leader for Americas, has worked with a  variety of organizations designing and implementing recruitment strategies for executive appointments.

The positions recently completed in life sciences and healthcare manufacturing are  Country Manager, Clinical Operations Managers, Human Resources Managers,  Project Managers, Sales Managers, among others.

Rodrigo is an economics graduate with over 10 years of experience in executive search and HR consulting. He has been a member of the InterSearch Board of Directors from 2011 to 2017.

Lotika Mahindra
InterSearch India

As a Partner and key member of the senior consulting team, Lotika has successfully led and executed critical and complex leadership hiring assignments., for multi-national corporations as well as leading Indian organizations.

She has over 15 years experience in the Executive Search industry which primarily spans across the Lifesciences, Pharma, Healthcare, R&D / Innovation, Consumer, Lifestyle and Manufacturing sectors.

Additionally she actively leads the development of knowledge solutions and provides leadership, direction and structure to highly qualified distributed, multi-location research teams.

Previously, she has worked with two leading global organizations, IFC (World Bank) and Airtel, in roles with high external interface and marquee client management responsibilities.

Lotika has successfully completed a post graduation four years Engineering program from the Aptech Institute of India. She graduated from Delhi University, with majors in Political Science.

Florence Hao
InterSearch China

Florence has a Master degree of Human Resources from University of Sydney with over 8 years’ experience in Pharmaceutical positions, successfully closed hundreds of Senior level positions for Chinese pharmaceutical companies. She has in-depth knowledge of drug discovery and development process. Familiar with drug R&D market in China and USA, especially in Biology, Medichem, CMC, Medical, Business development & IVD.

Successful assignments: Chief Medical Officer, Chief Scientific Officer, CMC Head, Preclinical VP; IVD Head

Yulia Zabazarnykh
InterSearch Russia

Challenging world needs extraordinary solutions, especially for Life Science sector, as our lives critically depend on new technology in Life Science. We know how to build the best team for outstanding discoveries and successful business.

Being the partner of InterSearch Russia for 12 years, and 24 years in executive search, Yulia is responsible to Life Science practice, with strong expertise in manufacturing and R&D. Successful track record in partnership with the leading pharmaceutical companies, more than 30 completed searches for senior roles over the past three years. The leader of cross-border business and leader of the global InterSearch Life Science Practice Group.

The Length of work in the Agency: since 1996

Education:
1992 – 1997 Russian State University of Humanity (Specialization – Information protection). Degree Certificate with Distinction

Supplementary education:
REC training – Recruitment Employment Corporation in London, UK
Selling training, SPIN technologies

Professional achievements:
Yulia is the Partner of “Kontakt”, who rose from a trainee to the partner. Till 2004 Yulia worked as a trainee, a consultant, a senior consultant and since 2004 she has worked as the head of the department. In 2008 Yulia became the Partner of the company. Yulia actively works in cooperation with the international Executive search agencies net InterSearch. In 2014 Yulia won a prize Excellence Award 2014 for developing international recruitment within the annual meeting of InterSearch members.

Micheál Coughlan
InterSearch Ireland

Managing Partner of InterSearch Ireland Micheál joined the InterSearch Worldwide Board of Directors in 2017. He began his career with InterSearch Ireland in 1996, becoming Managing Partner in 2010.

He is the initiator of the InterSearch Life Sciences & Healthcare Practice Group, supporting clients and candidates within the pharmaceutical, medical technologies and healthcare sectors.

He has worked with a variety of organizations designing and implementing recruitment strategies for leadership and management appointments. Many of these assignments involve multi-country search.

Micheál joined the Academy team in 2013 where he is responsible for training and development of talent within the InterSearch Worldwide organisation.

Micheál holds a bachelor’s degree in commerce from NUI Galway and a master’s degree in human resources management from the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

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