Cornerstone Search Group
Offering Unparalleled Life Science Executive Search

"We’re an established, highly tenured executive search firm solely focused on the life science industry,” says Steven Raz, CEO, co-founder, and managing partner at Cornerstone Search Group.

Since 2000, Cornerstone Search Group has been renowned in the life science industry for its excellence in helping businesses—from small biotechnology firms to large enterprises—find and hire the best talent. Drawing on two decades of industry experience, it has developed an extensive network of partners, making it an expert who understands and communicates client stories. Led by a professional team that masters the art of life science executive search and hiring, Cornerstone Search Group is adept at finding the best fit that matches a client’s urgency and desire to bring the most effective and timely treatments to patients.

Cornerstone Search Group’s key services include executive search, specialized expansion and scaling, talent pipelining and market mapping, pre-hire assessments, and rescue search. These executive search services are instrumental in helping clients identify and recruit top-tier talent, including C-suite executives and VPs. Through its rigorous process of talent pool evaluation, the team ensures selected candidates meet clients’ business goals and objectives.

The specialized expansion and scaling services are customized offerings designed to support businesses of all sizes. Whether a newly-funded start-up, a biotech firm expanding after a successful early trial, or an enterprise going through M&A transactions, its specialized expansion and scaling serves as a proven, agile, and cost-effective solution that addresses their varying needs. Cornerstone Search Group is also adept at assisting overseas clients seeking to establish their footprints in the competitive American markets. Through its specialized expansion and scaling service, it educates them about the U.S. market conditions and helps them find the right talent that complements their journey forward. Domestic companies looking to expand their market reach can also leverage this service for the best results.

Clients can use Cornerstone Search Group’s talent pipelining and market mapping services to get an overview of available candidates who match the vacant roles. With a corpus of data accumulated over the last two decades, it provides insights on the latest trends and real-time evidence of the market that help make informed decisions. The firm is also recognized for its pre-hire assessments and leadership development, where leading psychologists evaluate selected candidates through extensive interviews and cutting-edge assessment tools.

The information candidates provide on real-life scenarios, such as prior experience and personality, are compared with the responses received from other candidates to identify an ideal match. It’s then presented to clients for making an informed hiring decision. The team is also adept at providing the best leadership development training if needed.

Cornerstone Search Group’s rescue searches assist emerging and small businesses that lack a full-time HR or legal department in preparing job descriptions, compensation packages, and offer letters. This HR and talent acquisition function enables clients to focus on their core operations while attracting and retaining top talent.

With this perfect line of services, Cornerstone Search Group has gained a reputation as a leader in the life science industry for leading numerous clients to success. A recent case in point involved an emerging biotech company that only had a CEO and a director onboard. They wanted to scale their executive leadership team and selected Cornerstone Search Group as their executive search partner. The team leveraged its experience in life science executive search and hiring to help them design an organizational chart describing the positions and candidatures of vacancies. Its well-integrated, strategic recruitment plan—from identifying candidates to putting them through management psychologist evaluation—helped the client place the right talent for the required roles.

Cornerstone Search Group’s impressive achievements serve as a testament to its customer-centric business model. A client engagement typically begins with its team comprehending their requirements and formulating a winning plan of action for completing their executive search and recruitment within 90 days. The key to this consistent success lies in the expertise of its team that boasts an average tenure of 15 years in personally supervising executive searches with the company.

Today, when most companies hire remotely, giving candidates more opportunities nationally, the company helps select the brightest minds from a nationwide talent pool. Cornerstone Search Group’s commitment to delivering flexible, top-notch services helps retain its legacy as a trusted partner for executive searches in the life science sector.