Global leader in executive search with 40 years’ experience advising clients who are changing the face of healthcare. From pre-series A start-ups to established life sciences companies, TSG partners to build expert executive leadership teams across functions, as well as boards, for the pharma, biotech, medtech, and healthcare technology sectors.
The Stevenson Group was founded by entrepreneur Stephen Steinman in 1979 as a generalist boutique search firm. From 2001 to 2010, TSG evolved into a Life Sciences specialist firm with a pharma, biotech, and technology focus. The 2010 transition from our original founder to a partnership model allowed us to scale our platform for the future and to deepen our footprint in Life Sciences. Since 2010, TSG has tripled the business by expanding existing partnerships and growing new segments geographically and functionally. No longer a boutique, TSG is one of the leading mid-sized executive search firms in Life Sciences.
Adam joined The Stevenson Group in 2006 as a Director and within a year was promoted to Managing Principal and Co-Head of the Life Sciences Practice. In 2010, he was named President and assumed full oversight of enterprise operations and administration. When Adam took the helm in 2010, TSG was a boutique search firm with 10 employees. By 2016, he and his leadership team had grown TSG into a mid-sized firm focused exclusively on specialized therapeutic areas, technologies, and functions across the Life Sciences ecosystem. During his tenure, TSG implemented a next generation service model that mirrors the core business functions of our client partners (commercial; R&D; manufacturing/operations; corporate) and built client service teams with the domain and functional expertise to bring an expert perspective across talent, science, and business.
Prior to The Stevenson Group, Adam was at Pfizer leading cross-functional searches for external executive talent and partnering with leaders across the matrixed organization on talent planning and organizational design. In this capacity, he played a key role in the build-out of an internal executive search function, managed talent acquisition teams across the global pharmaceutical business, and was an active leader of the corporate diversity recruiting team.
Earlier in his career, Adam ran his own search consultancy and spent several years with an executive search firm focused on the financial services industry.
Adam holds a Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources from the University of Delaware and has professional certification in Human Resource Management from New York University.
As Managing Partner of The Stevenson Group since 1998, Jennifer Kay co-led the management transition in 2010 and has played a key role in the subsequent build-out and growth of the firm into a leader in the Life Sciences executive search marketplace. With client partnerships that span decades, Jennifer is a trusted advisor to clients ranging from venture and private equity-backed firms to global corporations. Over the course of her tenure, Jennifer has built out multi-functional leadership teams across client brands, disease areas, and geographies for global pharmaceutical and biotech companies, medical devices and diagnostics companies, R&D service providers, and healthcare services firms. Jennifer also co-leads The Stevenson Group’s Diversity & Inclusion Practice with an emphasis on female leadership.
Prior to joining The Stevenson Group, Jennifer spent several years with American Express in both marketing and organizational development roles.
Jennifer earned an MBA from the Stern School of Business at NYU and a BA in Organizational Psychology from the University of Michigan.
Jonathan joined The Stevenson Group as Managing Partner in 2008 and played a key role in the 2010 transition to a partnership model that ushered in significant organic growth, expanded client relationships, and a stronger footprint in Life Sciences. With almost two decades of internal and external search experience in Life Sciences, Jonathan brings rigorous precision to complex talent scenarios for clients competing in early, growth, and mature markets across the sector.
Prior to TSG, as Director/Team Leader of the Strategic Staffing Group at Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, Jonathan significantly upgraded the internal executive search function and led high profile searches across multiple functional and therapeutic areas.
Jonathan’s early career experience includes serving as a Senior Consultant with a human capital management consulting firm.
Jonathan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Ithaca College.
Managing Partner of The Stevenson Group (TSG) since 2015, Kristine has nearly 20 years in Life Sciences executive search. She partners with clients ranging from Pre-Series A ventures to commercial stage life sciences companies across multiple functional areas, from R&D departments to commercial teams, as well as recruiting C-Level executives and Non-Executive Board members. Kristine also leads TSG’s Diversity Initiative with an emphasis on female leadership. Working closely with Women in Bio’s Boardroom Ready Program, Kristine is committed to increasing gender diversity on Boards. She is also a member of WIB’s inaugural National Diversity and Inclusion Resource Group.
Prior to joining TSG, Kristine successfully built and led the US business for a European Headquartered Life Sciences Executive Search Firm. Throughout her career she has lived and worked in several pharma and biotech hubs including: Boston, Princeton, New York, and Philadelphia giving her strong local networks in these markets. Kristine holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing from Philadelphia University and is an active member of the Women in Bio (WIB), MedTech Women, Healthcare Business Women’s Association (HBA), and Women in the Enterprise of Science and Technology (WEST). She is also an active volunteer with the non-profit organization, Back on My Feet.
Renu joins TSG as a Partner based in our London office and will be leading the firm’s expansion across Europe. Renu is a highly networked Life Sciences International Executive Search Consultant with over twenty years’ experience gained from several of the world’s largest global executive search firms. She has a proven track record in working with her clients to build their boards and leadership teams, helping both emerging and established organizations to fill critical roles.
Specifically, Renu has led and delivered global assignments at Board, C-level, and SVP/VP levels across all functional areas of the drug development process for Pharma/Biopharma, Biotech and CRO/CDMO organizations in both Europe and North America. This coupled with her passion, academic and corporate background, ideally positions her to partner with clients successfully.
Renu joins TSG from Norman Broadbent, where she was Managing Director, Global Life Sciences. As Managing Director, she was responsible for establishing and building the firm’s Life Sciences footprint across the UK, Europe, and the US.
Prior to this, she was a key member of the Life Sciences and Healthcare practice at a large global search firm. Before that, she built the Life Sciences practice for an international AiM-listed organization.
Renu earned her undergraduate degree in Biochemistry from The University of Dundee and her PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from The University of Hull. To complete her academic experience, she undertook an industry funded Post-Doctoral project for Marlow Foods.
Nick joined The Stevenson Group in 2021 as a Partner bringing over a decade of executive Life Science search experience. His area of expertise is partnering with biotechnology companies and venture capital firm to bring C-Suite talent to early-stage organizations, including appointing the CEO and their direct reports as the company evolves. As a true partner to his clients, Nick also works closely with the Board and Investors advising clients on subjects related to organizational design, compensation benchmarking, and talent retention.
Prior to joining The Stevenson Group, Nick relocated from the UK to New York where he successfully built and led Real Life Sciences’ Executive Practice. As the Head of the Executive Practice, Nick collaborated with his biotech clients navigating key scientific and business inflection points to attract top talent to support their growth.
Nick began his career with Wilton & Bain, a UK based boutique search group, before moving to the States in 2015. Nick earned his Bachelor’s degree in Public Relations from Leeds Beckett University.
Melissa has nearly 15 years of Life Sciences experience, grounded in her early career in Management Consulting across Deloitte’s Human Capital and Strategy & Operations practices. For the past several years, she has been helping life sciences organizations identify and attract top executives for their most critical leadership roles across science, development, and business. Over the course of her career, her focus has been on the core strategic, operational, and talent challenges across every function in a life sciences organization. Her broad experience with operating model and process design, training, communications, recruiting, talent management, and succession planning inform her advisory to TSG’s diverse client base. Prior to consulting, Melissa was a fourth grade teacher in Brooklyn as part of Teach for America. She is an avid triathlete, golfer, and foodie. Melissa holds a BA from Brown University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.
As a Principal at TSG, Gaz brings extensive recruiting experience having spent the majority of his career focused on partnering with emerging, venture-backed biotech clients to build their leadership teams. His experience spans across all C‑Level roles both on the scientific and operational sides of the business. Prior to joining TSG, Gaz served as a Principal for a boutique search firm where he was responsible for leading search projects with functional concentration on CEO, COO, CFO, CBO, CCO, and CSO roles.
Prior to Executive Search, Gaz began his career in Physical Therapy working for Amedisys Home Health, the nation’s largest home health care company. He was pulled into the business side and became an Account Executive. From there, he was recruited to lead Orthopedics for St. Vincent’s in Cleveland, working closely with some of the area’s top Orthopedic specialists.
Gaz earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Health & Social Sciences in Physical Therapy from Glasgow Caledonian University and has an Associate’s Degree in Applied Science.