A press release takes an afternoon to write. New raise, new pipeline milestone, new name on the leadership page. It's designed to get people excited, and it works. But a headline announcing money coming in tells you almost nothing about whether the company cashing that check is a stable [...]
I've told candidates to walk away from offers they were excited about. Good title, good money, good company on paper. And I've had to look them in the eye, or at least on a screen, and say something that sounds insane coming from the person who gets paid when [...]
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 [...]
Over the past year, most biotech leaders I speak with have been asking variations of the same question. Not “Is the market good or bad?” but “How do we plan when things still feel uncertain?” That uncertainty hasn’t disappeared, but it has changed. Conversations are less about survival and [...]
On November 4th, I had the opportunity to speak at SIM Boston’s Life Sciences Roundtable, hosted at Dyne Therapeutics. The session focused on “The Evolving Role of the Life Sciences CIO,” and brought together about 35 to 40 biotech and pharma technology leaders, CIOs, VPs, and IT strategists, all [...]
If you're leading IT and staring down Q4 with key roles still open, let me reassure you, you’re not alone, and you’re not doomed. I’ve worked with dozens of tech leaders in the same spot: headcount’s approved, projects are lined up, but one or two critical hires are still [...]
Every fall, hiring in biotech IT ramps up, often quickly and under pressure. Companies realize they’ve got a budget to use and open roles to fill. If they don’t act soon, that money and headcount might disappear with the calendar. That’s when the panic calls start. I’ve seen it [...]
Inspired by real IT leadership stories A Day in the Life of an Unseen Force It’s a quiet Monday morning in a mid-sized biotech company. As the sun hits the glass panels of the lab, machines whir to life, automated pipettes, sequencing hardware, and data servers. Screens in the [...]
In biotech, the line between IT and business strategy isn’t just blurry, it’s virtually nonexistent. The organizations that are moving fast and scaling smart are the ones where IT leadership doesn't just support the business. They shape it. But not all IT leaders are built for that kind of [...]
