Carina McEntire,  Managing Partner

Biopharm Search was founded by Carina McEntire, an executive search consultant with close to fifteen years’ life science search experience.  Carina has completed global executive search assignments for major blue-chip organisations as well as for mid-sized and smaller entrepreneurial companies and start-ups across the Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology, Contract Services, Medical Technology, Venture Capital, Academia and Government & Public sectors. 

Carina has successfully placed senior executives in most European countries with further significant experience of working with US headquartered organisations.  The assignments she has completed are wide-ranging and include senior executive leadership roles across R&D and Commercial, plus General Management, Manufacturing, HR, Legal and Board appointments.  She has also driven large benchmarking projects on behalf of both top 10 and mid-sized organisations and is experienced in successfully completing highly specialised searches whether in a functional or therapeutic area.

Having started her life science search career at Talentmark, she joined Euromedica in 1999.  There she gained ten years’ experience as a Consultant and, as Director, she sat on the UK management board.  Prior to this, she was a member of the European management team where, as Head of Research, Carina developed and managed an international team of Researchers.  During this time she was also part of a core team responsible for successfully integrating an internationally networked candidate and client management system.

Carina has a BSc (Hons) in Psychology and an MSc in Organisational Psychology, having focused on leadership competencies and evaluation.  She also holds a Diploma in Business and Communications and is qualified to administer psychometric tests (Level A & B).  In addition to having worked with clients in most markets, Carina has international experience having held positions in the UK, Germany and Sweden.