About Us

Specialized in the life science industry, Catalyst Advisors is a global executive recruitment and leadership advisory firm focused on building transformational boardrooms and executive leadership teams. We guide our clients through their maturation journeys and serve as trusted advisors at critical junctures in their mission to advance affordable, innovative diagnostics and therapeutics with the potential to change patients’ lives.

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Solutions And Expertise

Catalyst Advisors is an international executive recruitment and advisory firm that is singularly focused on bringing visionary leaders to transformative life sciences companies. They seek meaningful partnerships, and their high success rate is underpinned by a white-glove approach to connecting companies with high-caliber leaders who will drive tomorrow’s scientific innovations. Their recruitment assignments include board members, C-Suite executives, senior management and scientific executives across all functions and disciplines.

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  • Advisory Services
  • Assessment
  • Board Services
  • Diversity & Inclusion
  • Executive Search
  • Leadership Consulting
  • Leadership Develop.
  • Succession Planning
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News Briefings

Catalyst Advisors Adds New Partner
Catalyst Advisors Adds Partner Arnaldo De Lisio London

Persistent talent shortages and the need to develop and retain employees with critical business and technology skill-sets will continue to challenge global life sciences companies for the foreseeable future, according to Deloitte’s global sector outlook on life sciences.  Navigating this new world of work requires a dramatic change in strategies for leadership, talent and human

Catalyst Advisors Completes Three Biopharma CEO Searches

In the biopharma industry, the evolution from clinical trials to regulatory approval and taking a product to market is perhaps the biggest inflection point in a growth company’s trajectory, even more so, in some cases, than an IPO. Because this shift demands a new set of organizational competencies, experience and structure, companies preparing for commercialization

Catalyst Advisors Completes Top Search for Gilead Sciences

Executive search firm Catalyst Advisors has placed Alessandro Riva, M.D., at Gilead Sciences, Inc. as senior vice president of hematology and oncology therapeutic area head and member of its executive committee. Catalyst recruiter Stephen J. Williams, Ph.D., led the search along with colleague Amy Bottoms. He will report to executive vice president of clinical research John McHutchison,

Catalyst Advisors Recruits CEO for Acceleron Pharma

Executive search firm Catalyst Advisors has placed Habib Dable as president and chief executive officer of Acceleron Pharma Inc. He succeeds John Knopf who has announced his retirement. Catalyst John Archer and Sara Hagar led the search. Mr. Dable joins Acceleron from Bayer AG, where he most recently served as president of pharmaceuticals for Bayer in the U.S. In this role, he was

Press Releases

Arnaldo De Lisio Joins Catalyst Advisors as Partner, Expanding the Firm’s European Presence

LONDON, October 9, 2017 – Catalyst Advisors, L.P., a global executive recruitment firm focusing on board, C-level and other senior engagements for high-growth life sciences companies, today announced that Arnaldo De Lisio has joined as a Partner. He will be based in London along with Simon Bartholomew, who opened that office in 2014. “Arnaldo is a