Franklin, MA – Prestige Scientific is pleased to announce the successful completion of an Executive Director search with our partner, a newly established healthcare policy think tank.
The individual hired for this role is a healthcare policy and corporate affairs executive with extensive experience spanning think tanks, FDA leadership, and rare disease biotechnology. They have led influential policy initiatives, advised FDA leadership on regulatory priorities and data science, and currently oversee global public policy strategy, partnering directly with executive leadership to advance rare disease advocacy and corporate objectives.
This critical hire will step into a true institution-building mandate, where you'll have end-to-end ownership of shaping the organization's identity, influence, and long-term trajectory. They will expand the organization's impact significantly across healthcare policy, regulatory reform, and public discourse while building something from the ground up, developing new capabilities in organizational leadership, strategic communications, coalition-building, and agenda-setting at a national level.
Prestige presented 9 individuals for this role, the hired candidate was presented 7 days from the start of the search, and the search was completed in 70 days. Congratulations to our executive search team for this successful project!
About Prestige Scientific:
Prestige Scientific is an executive search firm that advises our clients on recruiting impactful leaders. We provide our clients with a performance-based hiring system that identifies leaders with past success meeting similar corporate objectives as their own, while overcoming challenges and adhering to critical timelines. We have dedicated experts in eleven practice areas that mirror a typical biopharma company, allowing us to support our client's growth from Discovery through Commercial.


