The Bowdoin Group Ranks as a Top 50 Healthcare & Life Sciences Search Firm by Hunt Scanlon
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Posted by Bowdoin on March 5, 2025
WALTHAM, Mass., May 4, 2020 – The Bowdoin Group, an executive search firm with deep expertise in leadership search and strategic team expansions for companies across technology, healthcare, and life sciences, is proud to share that the firm has been named by Hunt Scanlon Media as a “Top 50 Healthcare & Life Sciences Search Firm” for the first time.
Hunt Scanlon Media, the industry leader in executive search sector news and research, creates this and other lists based on executive search specialties each year. Their 2020 “Top 50” ranking of specialty search firms represents the most influential, best-in-class executive recruiters, who they consider to have the best reputation, largest reach, and that maintain highly respected cultures specifically in the healthcare and life sciences sectors.
“It’s an incredible honor to be named to this ranking and sit alongside such an impressive list of firms,” said Sean Walker, Partner and Digital Health practice lead for The Bowdoin Group. “Both Josh [Gottlieb] and I see an incredible opportunity for innovation at the intersection of BioPharma, Digital Health, and Technology—now more than ever—and we look forward to providing the ecosystem with the highest quality service and expertise.”
Most recently, The Bowdoin Group worked with Mayo Clinic to place their new President of Platform, Dr. John Halamka, featured in the story here. Other recent executive searches have included partnerships with Quil Health, AbleTo, Diameter Health, Imprivata, Conversio Health, Cricket Health, and athenahealth, led by Sean Walker and Josh Gottlieb (Managing Director, Digital Health).
“We’re thrilled to be recognized as one of the top industry leaders for executive search in Life Sciences and Healthcare,” noted Dave Melville, CEO and Founder of The Bowdoin Group. “For over twenty-five years, our firm has been dedicated to delivering exceptional service to clients in the biopharma, digital health, and technology sectors, and we’re proud to serve industries like these that are making tangible impacts on people’s lives every day.”
The Bowdoin Group has built commercial teams and provided recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) services for some of the biggest players in the life sciences space, including Seattle Genetics, Epizyme, Deciphera, Foundation Medicine, Generation Bio, Forma Therapeutics, and FerGene, led in partnership with Justin Endres (Managing Director, BioPharma) and Lindsey Potvin (Vice President, RPO Services & Team Expansion). Executive retained searches include those for Ribon Therapeutics, Ohana Biosciences, Sarepta Therapeutics, Synthego, and Akili Interactive most recently.
To view the entire “Top 50 Healthcare & Life Sciences Search Firms,” visit https://huntscanlon.com/life-sciences-healthcare-top-50/.
About The Bowdoin Group
Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Boston, MA, The Bowdoin Group is an award-winning healthcare and life sciences executive search and strategic talent partner helping high-growth companies build the leadership and teams they need to scale. With deep sector expertise and a business–led talent approach, Bowdoin partners with executive teams, boards, and investors to deliver executive search, strategic search, and team build solutions across every stage of company growth.
Visit us at https://www.bowdoingroup.com and connect with us on LinkedIn.
About Hunt Scanlon Media
Hunt Scanlon Media has been defining and informing the senior talent management sector for over 30 years. Our global staffing intelligence data comes in many forms: daily newswires, industry conferences, annual leadership and state of the industry reports, market intelligence sector briefings, and in our flagship newsletter Executive Search Review. Our exclusive news briefings, interviews, industry trends reports and rankings, forecasts and expert commentary offer unique insight and market intelligence as we track global talent management developments. Since our inception, talent management professionals worldwide have turned to Hunt Scanlon Media — making us the most widely referenced, single source for information in the human capital sector. The privately-held company is based in Greenwich, Conn. For more information, please visit: www.huntscanlon.com.
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