I've spent close to thirty years placing technology leaders. A good chunk of that has been in Biotech and Pharma. And the one thing I keep coming back to, across every kind of organization I work with, is curiosity. The people who ask the most questions consistently do the [...]
A resume tells you where someone has been. It tells you what titles they've held, what companies they've worked for, what platforms they claim to know. In Biotech and Pharma IT, I see resumes every day that look exactly right. The experience is there. The tenure is there. The [...]
Most organizations already have smart people. Capable engineers, infrastructure leaders, security professionals, architects, and data teams who know their environments extremely well. In many cases, the technical side of the organization is functioning exactly the way it's supposed to. And yet companies still struggle. Projects slow down. Leadership becomes [...]
I've spent nearly three decades talking to technology leaders. CIOs. CTOs. Infrastructure heads. Security executives. Data leaders. Architects. Engineers who became managers. Managers who became executives. After enough years in this business, you start to notice patterns that show up over and over again, regardless of company size, industry, [...]
I was in the middle of a conversation recently when something clicked for me. It was one of those moments where you realize you’ve been seeing the same pattern play out for years, but you hadn’t quite said it out loud yet. We were talking about leadership. Not the [...]
Hiring always starts with the science. Experience, skills, and credentials are easy to measure. What actually determines success sits on the other side of that. Most hiring processes begin the same way. You look at a resume and confirm someone has done the job before. You check the boxes. [...]
If you’ve been in biotech for any length of time, you already understand one thing. Stability is never guaranteed. A company can look strong from the outside. Good funding, promising science, a pipeline that makes sense, and a hiring push that suggests momentum. Everything lines up on paper. Then [...]
If you’ve been doing this long enough, you’ve seen both sides of it. You’ve seen when everything’s growing and it almost feels like you can’t mess it up. Budgets are there, hiring’s happening, projects are getting approved. You make a few mistakes, it doesn’t really hurt you. The market [...]
Biotech companies don’t wake up one day and decide to build a messy technology environment. It happens gradually. A managed service provider gets hired to run day-to-day operations. A consultant comes in to implement a new platform. Another vendor gets brought in for security. Cloud usage expands because growth [...]
There is a hiring pattern I see in biotech that creates friction, even when the person hired is experienced and capable. On paper, the hire makes complete sense. The person has held the title before. They have worked in impressive organizations. They have led teams. They understand systems. There’s [...]
