COMPSTUDY - Key Persons


Aaron Lapat - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Managing Partner
  • Co - Founder and Managing Partner of Park Square Executive Search
Aaron is a co-founder and Managing Partner of Park Square Executive Search.

Anna Cornish

Job Titles:
  • Associate

Arena Pharmaceuticals - Chief Commercial Officer

Job Titles:
  • Chief Commercial Officer

Ashley David

Job Titles:
  • Principal
  • Principal at Park Square
Ashley is a Principal at Park Square, where she works across each of the firm's practice areas and is involved in all aspects of search, from research through candidate development and search closure.

Aurora Algae

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Aquaculture / Director, Cultivation

Ava Robotics - VP of Sales

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Sales
  • Vice President, Sales / Berklee College of Music / Chief Marketing Officer, Berkleemusic.Com

Benson Hill Biosystems - VP of Sales

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Sales

Boston Athenaeum

Job Titles:
  • Director

Bruce Rychlik - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Managing Partner
  • Advisor to Convergence
  • Co - Founder and Managing Partner of Park Square Executive Search
Bruce Rychlik is a co-founder and Managing Partner of Park Square Executive Search. With over twenty-five years in the search profession, Bruce recruits Chief Executive Officers and C-Level executives - scientific, technical, clinical, financial and business development - at a national level. A majority of his searches involve venture-backed Life Sciences companies in the therapeutics, diagnostics and tools space. Within Life Sciences, Bruce also extensively recruits board members, venture capital professionals, and individuals for innovation/technology transfer initiatives at academic/research institutions. Throughout his career, he has also worked on numerous international recruiting projects throughout Asia, particularly Japan, as well as Europe. Bruce is an Advisor to Convergence: The Life Sciences Leaders Forum, which hosts annual events in New England. He earned an M.B.A. from Boston University (1997) and a B.A. in Political Science from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania (1989). He lives with his wife Kristina, daughter Anna and sons Alexander and Robert in Acton, Massachusetts. Road and mountain biking as well as cyclecross racing helps to fulfill his interests in exercise, nutrition, travel and the outdoors.

Caity McGuirk

Job Titles:
  • Principal and Head of Candidate Development
  • Principal at Park Square
Caity is a Principal at Park Square, where she partners with growth-oriented technology and life sciences companies to identify, recruit, and secure top-tier talent to drive organizational success.

Carmine Therapeutics

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Discovery

Carver Biosciences - CEO, Founder

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer
  • Co - Founder

Cassandra Remare-Welch

Job Titles:
  • Head of Search Administration and Marketing Coordinator

Cellino Biotech

Job Titles:
  • Chief Business Officer / Chief Operating Officer / Vice President, Bioprocess
  • Chief Business Officer / Chief Operating Officer / Vice President, Data and Machine Learning
  • Chief Operating Officer / Vice President, Data and Machine Learning

Chloe Kolbet

Job Titles:
  • Head of Research and Operations

Clarice Helfand

Job Titles:
  • Associate

Colt Technology - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer

Colt Telecom

Job Titles:
  • Chief Revenue Officer / Chief Financial Officer, Asia / Chief Technology Officer

Daiichi Sankyo

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director, Clinical Development, Oncology

Dana Alsheikh-Ali

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Dean, Continuing

Job Titles:
  • Education / Executive Director, Center for Computational Biomedicine, Harvard Medical School / Johns Hopkins University

Deep Genomics - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Business Officer
  • Chief Executive Officer
  • Chief Medical Officer
  • Head
  • Chief Business Officer / Chief Medical Officer / Head, New Product Planning

Delta Data - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer

Echo Nest

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Product

Erik R. Lundh - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Managing Partner
  • Advisor to Spindletop Capital
  • Co - Founder and Managing Partner at Park Square
Erik R. Lundh is a co-founder and Managing Partner at Park Square. Erik is an advisor to Spindletop Capital and a strategic advisor to Life Science Cares, a non-profit dedicated to eliminating the impact of poverty on our neighbors and communities. He holds a bachelor's degree in biological sciences from Santa Clara University.

Fauna Bio

Job Titles:
  • Head

Fidelity Investments

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice President, Corporate Development

Georgia Tech

Job Titles:
  • Dean, College of Architecture / Goldfarb School of Nursing / President

Gi Dynamics

Job Titles:
  • Chief Medical Officer / Vice President, Clinical Affairs

GRO Biosciences

Job Titles:
  • Chief Business Officer
  • Chief Business Officer / Harvard University

H. Carton Rogers, III

Job Titles:
  • Vice Provost and Director of Libraries / University of Pittsburgh

Hannah Pitman

Job Titles:
  • Search Administrator

Harvard Pilgrim

Job Titles:
  • Chief Data Scientist

Henry Ford - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman

Hudson Fiber - CFO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Financial Officer

Irvine Scientific - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer

Jack Carter

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate
  • Senior Associate at Park Square
Jack is a Senior Associate at Park Square, where he works across each of the firm's practice areas and is involved in all aspects of search, from strategy through candidate development and closure.

Jacqueline Brady

Job Titles:
  • Senior Search Administrator
Jackie Brady is a Senior Search Administrator at Park Square. She supports search-related logistics, candidate and client coordination, and client facing document production. Prior to joining Park Square, she served as a Renewals Specialist at Continental Resources for three years. She graduated from Westfield State University with a major in Communications and a minor in Business Management. During her junior year, she studied abroad in Florence, Italy, where she hopes to plan a return visit sometime soon. During the summer you can find her at the beaches of Cape Cod or shaking up cocktails at Lexington Golf Club where she has served as a bartender for seven years. In her free time, she enjoys being with her family, going out with her friends in Boston, and spending way too much time shopping at Target.

James Tisch

Job Titles:
  • Director / New York University

Jesse Hershman

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Partner and Founding Member of Park Square Executive
Jesse is a Partner and founding member of Park Square Executive Search, where he works with organizations at the forefront of science and technology to help solve critical issues relating to human capital.

Jonathan Fortescue - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Managing Partner
  • Co - Founder and Managing Partner of Park Square Executive Search
Jonathan Fortescue is a co-founder and Managing Partner of Park Square Executive Search.

Kate Cook

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • J. Robert Scott As a Researcher
  • Partner and Founding Member of Park Square Executive
Kate Cook is a Partner and founding member of Park Square Executive Search. Kate initially joined J. Robert Scott as a Researcher and quickly took on a series of broader roles including serving as Head of Technology Research, where she assisted with Business Development strategy for the firm's Technology practice, and also led global recruiting, training, onboarding and development for the firm's Research team.

Kyle Meingast

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Linda Hall

Job Titles:
  • Library

Lindsey Guenther

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate
  • Research Associate at Park Square
Lindsey is a Research Associate at Park Square and is responsible for market intelligence, candidate identification, and organizational mapping across our education, life sciences, sustainability, and technology practices.

Maria Tews

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Matthew Wood

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate

Meredith Braunstein

Job Titles:
  • Senior Search Administrator

Michelle Burger

Job Titles:
  • Principal
  • Principal at Park Square
Michelle is a Principal at Park Square, where she works with organizations at the forefront of science and technology to help build preeminent leadership teams.

Olivia Iannini

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Pennington Biomedical

Job Titles:
  • Chief Business Development Officer

Rock Solid - CFO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Financial Officer

San Francisco Conservatory - President

Job Titles:
  • President

Sarah Smith

Job Titles:
  • Associate

Threat Stack

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing Officer / Executive Vice President, Technology and Products

Ukko Therapeutics

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Translational Medicine

UMass Chan - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Executive
  • Vice Chancellor

Varda Space

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Business Development

Victoria Tootell

Job Titles:
  • Associate

Vita Health - Chief Commercial Officer

Job Titles:
  • Chief Commercial Officer