Refreshingly Agile
We’ll provide you with an exceptional quality of service, without any of the frustrations and limitations often associated with the recruitment industry. Our clients often comment on our refreshingly flexible, “can do” approach as a key reason they choose to partner with us.
Investor in new technology
We continually evaluate, invest in and implement all suitable new technology (including AI) to ensure you always receive the most cost-effective and efficient fulfilment of your brief. Cutting-edge businesses require a recruitment capability that leads the field.
Long-term partner
We believe in creating long-term partnerships with our clients as it enables us to provide tailored offerings to match your time and budget requirements.
Global reach, local expertise
With our network of offices in London, Zurich, New York, Seattle and Newport Beach and our partnership with Unique Group to cover Latin and South America, we’re able to provide a dynamic combination of local expertise and a global search capability.
Carl Marotta
BSc (Hons) Physiology & Neuroscience
Chief Executive Officer
Carl is a seasoned recruitment leader with seventeen years’ experience working within Life Sciences. Carl began his career in drug development & safety before moving into Executive Search & Staffing in 2004. Having taken two businesses from start-up to investment across Europe and America, Carl is now driving the Skills Alliance Group forwards with the vision of becoming a global leader in the life science services sector. Carl focuses his time on supporting his clients with their recruitment, retention, and organisational design strategies.
Global Operations
Management Team
Tanesha Brown
Associate Director
Global Compliance & Human Resources
Tanesha has over 7 years of Legal Compliance experience in the recruitment industry, she leads our global Compliance team who are responsible for ensuring we comply with all our Legal and contractual obligations regarding our clients' pre-employment screening requirements. Tanesha joined Skills Alliance in 2018 and most recently has taken on the responsibility of our global HR function.
Hakim Driouche
Associate Director
Global Marketing
Hakim has over 7 years of relevant experience in Marketing, Business Development and IT in the UK, France and the US. He has focused on recruitment marketing since 2016 with a proven track record of performance improvement and branding development. Hakim joined Skills Alliance in 2018 and is responsible for our global marketing strategy.
Bec Barnes
Associate Director
Global Talent Acquisition
Bec has more than 9 years recruitment experience across a range of specialist markets and has worked in multiple countries including Australia, the UK & the USA. Bec joined Skills Alliance in 2017 and is responsible for our Internal Talent Acquisition function in the UK, Europe and USA.
Jason Linney
Associate Director
Global Learning & Development
An experienced Learning and Development professional of 20 years, Jason has specialised in the recruitment arena for the last 8 and joined Skills Alliance at the start of 2018 as their Global Learning and Development Manager.
Executive Search
Management Team
Oliver Drew
Director
Executive Search Delivery
Oliver has over 7 years’ executive search experience in Europe, North America, APAC and LATAM. After joining Skills Alliance in 2016, he led our Market Access & HEOR division before progressing to build and manage our global Executive Search delivery team, leading senior appointments and project work across all functions and geographies.
Karina Sharipova
Principal
Consultant
After moving to London from Canada, Karina joined the Executive Search division over 3 years ago. Since joining as a researcher, she progressed to leading the executive research function and is now our Principal Consultant on the Executive Delivery team. She has successfully completed searches for preclinical, clinical and commercial-stage clients across all functions and geographies.
Joe Kennedy
Director
Senior Client Partner
Joe is a seasoned executive search leader with over 12 years experience, executing on complex searches across a range of functions globally, from director level to c-suite. Joe now leads our client function globally for executive search. He is responsible for setting and executing our strategy, building relationships and ensuring client satisfaction.
Michael Kan
Manager
Client Partner EMEA
Possessing over 10 years of successful international recruitment specifically within the biotechnology, pharma and medical technology sector. Mike has nurtured relationships with industry clients across the globe placing many key roles within clinical development, medical affairs, regulatory and commercial. Mike’s focus is to extend the Executive Search proposition at Skills Alliance focusing on start-up organisations through to SME and large biotech / pharma companies globally.
Staffing
Management Team
Rachael Parker
Team Manager
European Contract
Rachael joined Skills Alliance in 2016 and possesses over 8 years’ of contract and permanent recruitment experience. Having successfully setup our Healthcare Communications offering, she now leads the UK Contract Team with a specific focus on senior Commercial, Communications and Market Access appointments.
Mark Anderson
Director
UK Permanent
Mark has worked at Skills Alliance since 2010. He oversees the UK Permanent Division, having previously managed the UK & European Clinical Operations Team for 5 years. Mark also recruits for senior clinical positions in the UK. The team places people from CTA to VP level in the UK and across the whole of Europe. He has over 10 years’ experience recruiting clinical professionals in the UK, Europe and the US.
Harpreet Mander
Director
European Permanent
Harpreet joined Skills Alliance in 2018 having spent the previous four years focusing his work purely within the Medical Affairs and Clinical Development space. He has not only worked with the majority of the largest 40 Pharmaceutical organisations but has specialised in building out smaller growing Biotech companies. He is now focused on leading our expansion across Europe.
Christopher Cook
Director
Contract & Interim
Chris joined Skills Alliance in 2010 and has covered several areas in his time with us (Clinical, Biometrics, QA and Regulatory) giving him the background and exposure to lead all our functions contract and interim delivery.
Thomas Tsangaras
Managing Director
Switzerland
Thomas joined Skills Alliance to lead our European expansion in 2014, bringing 13 years of recruitment know how with him. Working from our Zurich office, he offers you a background in Search & Selection, Market Mapping and Project Delivery.
Caroline April Sargeant
Senior Vice President
Seattle
Caroline is a recruitment leader with fourteen years’ global Life Sciences experience. With a BSc in Psychology, she began her career specializing in European R&D recruitment solutions, specifically clinical operations, before joining Skills Alliance in 2015. She moved out to launch our Seattle office and is now driving the US business forwards with the vision of becoming a global leader in the life sciences sector. Caroline is passionate about helping SME biotechnology companies scale up rapidly and brings a wealth of people-centric solutions to her clients.
Annelie Murray
Principal Consultant
Clinical Development & Medical Affairs
Since joining in 2017 Annelie’s focus has been in Clinical Development and Medical Affairs across Europe, primarily in Start-up and Biotech. Having graduated with a BSc in Human Biology she has passion and interest in the drug development cycle. She identifies innovative and budding companies and works closely with them to source the right skill set and cultural expertise from management to C-suite level.
Jim Bellicoso
Principal Consultant
Procurement & Supply Chain
Jim brings 9 years of recruitment experience in procurement and supply chain, with a track record delivering at all levels from senior buyer through to VP Supply Chain / Chief Procurement Officer. Supporting SME and global blue-chip life science organisations for these needs on either a permanent or contract basis. Global network that comprehensively covers the European and US markets.
Akbar Ali
Team Leader
European Medical Devices
Akbar joined Skills Alliance in 2019 with 7 years proven Medical Device recruitment experience and has taken on a Team Lead role, focusing on the Medical Device Market and delivering searches across EMEA.
James Oakes
Vice President
New York
James leads our Preclinical and Scientific Staffing Team, partnering with the most innovative SME biotechs in the Cell & Gene Therapy and Innovative Biologics space to find niche, highly specialized professionals for their Discovery & Early Development teams. Having worked with multinational and boutique recruitment companies in the US, Singapore and Japan, he brings over 10 years of recruitment experience supporting biotechs across North America, APAC, and Europe to build their R&D and Technical Operations teams.
Josh Taylor
Contracts Manager
Technical Operations
Josh joined Skills Alliance in 2020 and has 8 years’ experience in contract and permanent staffing in technical engineering fields across the UK, Europe and US. Josh’s focus is delivering Technical Operations and Engineering personnel to Pharmaceutical and Biologics projects, with specific focus on CAPEX projects.
Kasim Zargar
Vice President
Client Services
For several years, Kasim has provided highly skilled technical resource to multiple major capital investment projects within the Biologics/Pharmaceutical sector across the Globe. Leading the TechOps Client Services team, he supports customers worldwide to ensure the continued successful provision of our contingent staffing services. Regions within his scope include: EU, US, Asia & the Caribbean.
Michael Parker
Principal Consultant
Quality Assurance
Michael has solely recruited in the Quality Assurance market for 6 years, he has an extensive network in the UK but has also supported clients across Europe. He has previously placed candidates in both permanent and interim positions across GxP. His focus will be growth of the UK and US markets.
Jasmine Stewart
Principal Consultant
Manufacturing
Jasmine focuses her expertise within in the manufacturing space in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and CDMO industries across France and Benelux. Having a scientific background, she has a passion for the industry and has successfully completed placements in niche areas within the Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Supply Chain, Technical Operations and Site Head departments. She specialises in management level positions to VPs/COOs.
Consulting
Management Team
Dan Shillingburg
Global Director
Consulting & President, North America
Dan leads our global Consulting practice, which provides tailored enterprise solutions that enable our customers to engage with talent more effectively. He also serves as the President of our US parent company. Dan has been a leader in the talent industry for over a decade, with 11 years of experience bringing workforce solutions to the life sciences sector. His academic background includes a BS in Biology from the University of North Carolina and research in orthopedic biomechanics.
Nicole Romeo
Program & Compliance Manager
New York
Nicole graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Hofstra University and joined Skills Alliance in 2017 as an internal recruiter and has since paved her way to where she is today. As the Program & Compliance Manger, she plays a key role in ensuring operational excellence within their existing customer programs across the US.
Matt Batchelor
Vice President
New York
Matt has over 18 years’ recruitment and talent acquisition experience specializing in Contract, Interim and Permanent staffing solutions. His background is in the IT and Digital Transformation sectors focused on innovative and niche technology markets. He has led high performing recruitment teams in both the UK and North America. The team in New York focus on high growth, niche markets in Life Sciences, Medical Technology, Regulatory and Quality Validation markets.
Mary Burke
Associate Program Manager
New York
Mary joined Skills Alliance in 2021 and brings with her a range of experience in implementing and managing workforce programs in the higher education, financial services, and life sciences fields. As Associate Program Manager, she helps ensure that each of our existing programs in the US receive excellent customer service, are operationally efficient and in line with industry best practices.
Ryan Gonce-McAlpine
Principal Consultant
Seattle
Ryan has a BA in Communication and brings over 4 years of consulting experience. He has managed staffing solutions for companies of all sizes spanning multiple industries. He specializes in high-volume, tailored recruitment strategies to bring results to both clients and candidates. He is passionate about novel technology, and he brings a highly detailed approach to deliver staffing solutions.
Jason Linney
Associate Director
Global Learning & Development
An experienced Learning and Development professional of 20 years, Jason has specialised in the recruitment arena for the last 8 and joined Skills Alliance at the start of 2018 as their Global Learning and Development Manager.
Tanesha Brown
Associate Director
Global Compliance & Human Resources
Tanesha has over 7 years of Legal Compliance experience in the recruitment industry, she leads our global Compliance team who are responsible for ensuring we comply with all our Legal and contractual obligations regarding our clients' pre-employment screening requirements. Tanesha joined Skills Alliance in 2018 and most recently has taken on the responsibility of our global HR function.
Hakim Driouche
Associate Director
Global Marketing
Hakim has over 7 years of relevant experience in Marketing, Business Development and IT in the UK, France and the US. He has focused on recruitment marketing since 2016 with a proven track record of performance improvement and branding development. Hakim joined Skills Alliance in 2018 and is responsible for our global marketing strategy.
Bec Barnes
Associate Director
Global Talent Acquisition
Bec has more than 9 years recruitment experience across a range of specialist markets and has worked in multiple countries including Australia, the UK & the USA. Bec joined Skills Alliance in 2017 and is responsible for our Internal Talent Acquisition function in the UK, Europe and USA.
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