Healthcare leadership operates at the intersection of science, regulation, and scale. As AI-driven diagnostics, real-world evidence platforms, and next-generation therapeutics reshape how care is delivered and financed, the executives defining this sector must combine clinical depth, operational precision, and board-level governance. The best healthcare executive recruiters understand that a wrong placement in this environment affects patients, payers, and the science itself.
For more than 40 years, Christian & Timbers has been the trusted partner for healthcare companies at every stage, from growth-stage healthtech software to global biopharmaceutical organizations. Our Healthcare Practice connects boards and founders with executives across clinical leadership, technology, revenue, and governance - spanning healthtech software, biopharma, health systems, and digital health platforms.
Our record of success is proven by measurable client outcomes.
Each placement demonstrates how leadership precision transforms organizational performance.
The Chief Medical Officer defines how clinical strategy, safety, and science align with enterprise objectives. In healthcare companies ranging from late-stage biopharma to health system-facing software platforms, this role carries regulatory accountability, product authority, and external credibility with providers and payers.
Christian & Timbers partners with boards and founders to identify CMOs who translate clinical evidence into operational performance. These leaders oversee trial design, medical affairs, clinical development pipelines, and the governance structures that sustain trust across regulators, payors, and health systems.
Leading clinical development programs across oncology, rare disease, and neuroscience from Phase II through commercial launch
Building medical affairs teams that generate real-world evidence and support label expansion in competitive therapeutic categories
Establishing pharmacovigilance and safety frameworks aligned with FDA, EMA, and post-market surveillance requirements
Partnering with boards and investors to translate clinical risk into capital strategy and pipeline valuation
Our proprietary mapping of the global clinical leadership ecosystem gives Christian & Timbers access to the most qualified CMO candidates across biopharma, medical technology, and digital health. A recent example: C&T placed Maria Rivas, MD as a Non-Executive Director at Telix Pharmaceuticals, bringing more than 25 years in oncology, rare disease, and neuroscience to a global radiopharmaceutical company targeting nearly $1 billion in 2026 revenue.
Revenue growth in healthcare requires leaders who understand how clinical credibility converts to commercial momentum. Whether scaling a biopharma platform, taking a healthtech SaaS product from Series B to enterprise contracts, or guiding a health system through technology transformation, the CEO defines how an organization moves from product validation to market leadership.
Christian & Timbers has placed healthcare CEOs and commercial leaders for organizations at every growth stage, helping clients build durable revenue models, structure payer and provider partnerships, and align commercial operations with clinical evidence.
Scaling enterprise SaaS platforms across health systems, payer organizations, and integrated delivery networks
Structuring value-based care partnerships that align clinical performance with recurring revenue models
Building commercial infrastructure from direct sales teams to channel and distribution strategies across provider and life science buyers
Driving growth from early revenue through Series C and beyond, supported by clinical data, regulatory clearance, and payer coverage decisions
Christian & Timbers combines data analytics, OnPoint scorecards, and proprietary benchmarks to align commercial objectives with leadership capabilities. This precision positions the firm among the top healthcare executive search firms worldwide, trusted to deliver measurable impact across commercial and go-to-market operations.
Healthcare's technology layer is no longer a support function. Platform architecture, real-world data infrastructure, federated query systems, and AI-enabled clinical decision tools define competitive position for organizations across the sector.
Christian & Timbers partners with growth-stage and enterprise healthcare organizations to appoint CTOs who build production-grade systems in regulated environments. A recent example: C&T placed Sylvia Isler as CTO at Atropos Health, developer of GENEVA OS®, an operating system for rapid healthcare evidence generation across real-world data. Isler brought deep expertise in distributed systems, microservices architecture, and DevOps.
Building real-world evidence and data infrastructure platforms with privacy-preserving architecture, federated query capability, and enterprise-grade reliability
Leading AI and machine learning development for clinical decision support, natural language processing, and patient outcome prediction
Designing regulatory-compliant engineering processes — test-driven development, DevOps, and QA frameworks suited to FDA software guidance and HIPAA requirements
Scaling platform delivery from research workflows to production-grade enterprise deployments across health systems, biopharma, and payer organizations
Through decades of healthcare executive search experience, Christian & Timbers has built a comprehensive view of the global health technology leadership ecosystem, mapping engineering and product leaders who combine technical excellence with the regulatory fluency enterprise healthcare demands. The firm's search practice covers healthtech software and biopharma with the same depth of sector knowledge applied across every role.
Board composition in healthcare demands more than governance experience. Clinical credibility, regulatory knowledge, financial oversight in capital-intensive environments, and technology literacy each shape how a board guides an organization through pipeline decisions, payer dynamics, and public market expectations.
Christian & Timbers has built healthcare boards for commercial-stage biopharma companies, growth-stage healthtech platforms, and organizations at the intersection of clinical care and applied AI.
At Telix Pharmaceuticals, C&T placed William Jellison as Non-Executive Director — a former CFO of Stryker Corporation with 30+ years of corporate finance experience and active board roles at Medtronic and Anika Therapeutics — alongside Maria Rivas, MD, former Chief Medical Officer at Pfizer with more than 25 years in oncology and rare disease. Together, these appointments added financial governance and clinical depth to a company targeting nearly $1 billion in annual revenue.
At PracticeWise, C&T placed Kyle Robertson as Board Member — a founder who built NarrativeDx, a healthcare experience analytics platform used by more than 80 percent of US hospitals, and led it through a successful acquisition by Press Ganey. His background in healthcare analytics, applied AI, and NLP directly matches PracticeWise's mission of integrating evidence-based practice into real-world clinical care.
Healthcare executive search rewards precision. Christian & Timbers delivers it through a research-driven, data-verified process that reaches the top tier of clinical, commercial, and technology leaders across the global health sector.
Unlike most retained executive search firms, we maintain full competitive visibility without off-limits restrictions, enabling direct access to the best healthcare executives across biopharma, healthtech, health systems, and digital health. Every engagement begins with a complete map of the relevant ecosystem, refined through continuous performance tracking across roles, companies, and market categories.
Our proprietary approach combines:
spanning biopharma clinical development, healthtech software, health systems, and value-based care
and leadership scoring based on proven clinical, commercial, and operational outcomes
aligning CMO, CTO, CEO, and board roles to unify science, product, and revenue growth
supported by 40 years of board-level relationships across healthcare's most demanding organizations
Christian & Timbers continues to earn the highest marks among top healthcare executive recruiting firm reviews, recognized for the precision, transparency, and measurable performance of its searches.
I had the privilege of working with Jeff Christian, founder and CEO of Christian & Timbers who helped me secure an independent corporate board director role at a global radiopharmaceutical company. From the outset, Jeff demonstrated a deep understanding of the company’s growth trajectory and outlook, board governance and strategic oversight needs, and how my experience could add value at the board level. His guidance throughout the process was thoughtful, strategic, and highly effective. I would strongly recommend Jeff Christian and his firm to any corporate board seeking a strategic recruitment firm able to identify and attract outstanding board talent.
Board Membr
I had an outstanding experience working with Jeff Christian and his team. They presented me with a compelling Board opportunity at Telix Pharmaceuticals, which I was very pleased to accept. Jeff and his team demonstrated strong professionalism throughout the process. They worked effectively with both sides to ensure the role was an excellent fit - exciting, strategically aligned, and well-matched to my background and interests.
I would highly recommend Jeff Christian and his team to any executive or company seeking top-tier board placements.
BOARD MEMBER
Christian & Timbers is an exceptional executive search partner. They move fast and found us one of the best CTOs in the industry. Would highly recommend using them.
CEO
Christian & Timbers works fast, diligently, and sources great candidates. Would highly recommend them to others.
Founder
We’ve partnered with Christian & Timbers for many years, and their team is exceptionally professional, responsive, and energetic. Thanks to their efforts, we secured an outstanding CEO and Operating Partner who have strengthened our leadership and positioned a portfolio company for long-term success.
Partner and Chief Operating Officer
Christian & Timbers is an outstanding search firm to work with in AI and cyber security. Their data-driven and bespoke approach has been pivotal in recruiting GTM leaders and board members for our portfolio companies like SecurityScorecard. The GTM President, CMO, SVP Sales, CPO and SVP Engineering have helped drive growth by 2X.
Partner
I’ve trusted Jeff and Christian & Timbers for over two decades because they always deliver. Their hands-on, relentless process brings us top leaders who know how to scale, drive performance, and deliver the best outcomes. They drove a very disciplined process recruiting a CRO and CMO for one of Bessemer’s portcos that helped us achieve a critical exit.
Operating Partner
Jeff’s broad experience and unique insights are always helpful, and he facilitated a great board role match for my interests and goals.
CEO
Jeff and the team at Christian & Timbers were professional, communicative, and extremely responsive. They ensured the entire process was focused on what our company needed and did not push candidates they believed wouldn’t fit our culture and growth. I would work with them again without hesitation.
Vice President, Operations
Christian & Timbers’ science-based methodology and rigorous process helped us find 3 top-tier GTM leaders that know our business and drive revenue. Their approach has been crucial to our company’s growth and leadership.
CEO
Christian & Timbers did an awesome job on a tough CFO search for us. We were interviewing the best local candidates with PE and SaaS experience in less than 2 weeks and met a short timeline.
CEO
The team at Christian & Timbers drove a very tight process and completed our CISO search in less than 70 days. We needed someone in Boston with a very specific skill set. C&T executes exactly as they commit.
CEO
Over 40 years of experience, C&T has completed 5,000+ executive placements, 750+ leadership teams, and 500+ marquee CEO searches across technology, healthcare, and life sciences.
