Hired to lead the Talent Acquisition strategy for the company by building a sustainable (yet scalable) structure needed to support current and future growth. Grew the organization from fewer than 50 employees to over 175 employees, including several C-Level executives and all verticals of the business.*Strategic Planning: Developed and implemented talent acquisition strategies aligned with the organization's goals and workforce needs.*Team Leadership: Hired, led, and managed a talent acquisition team (consisting of recruiters, talent scouts, coordinators, and operations), providing guidance, support, and training to ensure high performance and goal achievement.*Talent Sourcing: Identify and utilize diverse sourcing strategies to attract top talent, including job boards, social media, referral programs, career fairs, and networking.*Employer Branding: Developed and launched a new company career page to promote the organization's culture and values, perks and benefits, by enhancing its reputation as an employer of choice. Developed a strategic roadmap that positioned the company to compete for top workplace awards resulting in 6 Best Places to Work Awards in 2024.*Recruitment Processes: Redesigned the entire recruitment process workflow, from job advertisement to candidate selection/offer process, ensuring a positive candidate experience.*Data Analysis: Use metrics and analytics to assess the effectiveness of recruitment strategies and make data-driven decisions for improvement. *Compliance: Ensure that recruitment practices comply with relevant laws and regulations, promoting diversity and inclusion in hiring.*Budget Management: Manage the talent acquisition budget, ensuring resources are allocated effectively to maximize recruitment efforts.

Karius sees a world where infectious disease is no longer a major threat to human health. To achieve this, the Karius Test enables mapping of the patient’s microbial landscape from a single blood sample to enable physicians to make rapid treatment decisions.

*Team Leadership: Led, guided, and mentored junior recruiters and talent scouts, providing support and sharing best practices to enhance their skills and performance.*Recruitment Strategy: Develop and implement effective recruitment strategies to meet the organization’s hiring goals and needs.*Job Analysis: Collaborate with hiring managers to create detailed job descriptions and identify the skills and qualifications needed for open positions.*Candidate Sourcing: Utilize various sourcing methods, including job boards, social media, networking/career fairs, and referrals, to attract a diverse pool of candidates.*Screening and Interviewing: Review resumes, conduct initial screenings, and coordinate interviews with hiring managers, ensuring a smooth and efficient process.*Market Research: Stay informed about industry trends and market conditions to adjust recruitment strategies and remain competitive.*Data Management: Track and analyze recruitment metrics, such as time-to-fill and candidate quality, to identify areas for improvement and optimize processes.*Employer Branding: Promote the organization’s brand and values to attract top talent, participating in job fairs and networking events as needed.

Roche is a global pioneer in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics focused on advancing science toimprove people’s lives. The combined strengths of pharmaceuticals and diagnostics under one roof have made Roche the leader in personalised healthcare – a strategy that aims to fit the right treatment to each patient in the best way possible.Roche is the world’s largest biotech company, with truly differentiated medicines in oncology, immunology, infectious diseases, ophthalmology and diseases of the central nervous system. Roche is also the world leader in in vitro diagnostics and tissue-based cancer diagnostics, and a frontrunner in diabetes management.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) is the world leader in serving science, with revenues of $18 billion and approximately 55,000 employees in 50 countries. Our mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We help our customers accelerate life sciences research, solve complex analytical challenges, improve patient diagnostics and increase laboratory productivity. Through our premier brands – Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific and Unity Lab Services – we offer an unmatched combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and comprehensive support.

Cepheid (Nasdaq: CPHD), based in Sunnyvale, Calif., is an on-demand molecular diagnostics company that develops, manufactures, and markets fully-integrated systems and tests for genetic analysis in the clinical, industrial and biothreat markets. The Company's systems enable rapid, sophisticated genetic testing for organisms and genetic-based diseases by automating otherwise complex manual laboratory procedures. Cepheid's easy-to-use systems integrate a number of complicated and time-intensive steps, including sample preparation, DNA amplification and detection, which enable the analysis of complex biological samples in its proprietary test cartridges. Through its strong molecular biology capabilities, the Company is focusing on those applications where rapid molecular testing is particularly important, such as identifying infectious disease and cancer in the clinical market; food, agricultural, and environmental testing in the industrial market; and identifying bio-terrorism agents in the biothreat market.

Olympus is a precision technology leader, creating innovative opto-digital solutions in healthcare, life science and consumer electronics products. Many people are familiar with Olympus as a leading-edge camera company; Olympus also created the first camera that allowed doctors to look inside the human body, and we continue to introduce life-altering imaging technologies for healthcare professionals.