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.

Amber Bio

Job Titles:
  • Chief Scientific Officer

Arena Pharmaceuticals - Chief Commercial Officer

Job Titles:
  • Chief Commercial Officer

Ashley David

Job Titles:
  • Principal
  • Member of the Boston Chapter of Women
  • Principal in the Life Sciences and Healthcare Practice at Park Square
Ashley is a Principal in the Life Sciences and Healthcare practice at Park Square where she partners with growth-oriented companies to recruit senior talent and to meaningfully influence organizational development. She is focused on leading and executing searches across the C-suite and at the Board level. Ashley serves as a member of the Boston chapter of Women in Bio. She currently resides in Melrose, MA with her dog, Ellie. In her spare time, you can find her rooting for all the Boston sports teams, enjoying brunch in the city, or soaking up the sun by the pool.

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

Clarice Helfand

Job Titles:
  • Head of Research
  • Senior 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

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
  • 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

Elle Muller

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Emily Rodricks

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Associate

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

Hannah Pitman

Job Titles:
  • Operations Manager

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.

Jesse Hershman - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Managing Partner
  • Managing Partner and Founding Member of Park Square Executive Search
Jesse is a Managing 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 - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Managing Partner
  • J. Robert Scott As a Researcher
  • Managing Partner and Founding Member of Park Square Executive Search
Kate Cook is a Managing Partner and founding member of Park Square Executive Search. She partners with Chief Executive Officers, board members and investors to recruit executive leaders in the technology ecosystem. Kate has experience recruiting across the C-suite with an emphasis on go-to-market, finance and technology executives. Her industry experience spans enterprise software, tech-enabled services, mobility and IoT. She has worked with the portfolio companies of growth equity, venture capital and private equity firms across the US, as well as in Europe and Asia. Prior to joining the firm, Kate was an Associate in the Boston office of J. Robert Scott, a global retained executive search firm, where she focused on searches in the Technology sector. 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. Kate is originally from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. She graduated from the Honors Program of Boston College with a B.A. in English, magna cum laude. She lives in Newton with her husband Jeff, son Graham and daughter Maggie. Outside of work, Kate is a founding member of Urbanity Dance, a Boston-based contemporary dance company. She has taught classes, choreographed, and performed with Urbanity throughout New England. Kate has also taught ballet at Boston College and is an accomplished pianist.

Linda Hall

Job Titles:
  • Library

Lindsey Guenther

Job Titles:
  • Associate

McCall Sinclair

Job Titles:
  • Research 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.

Najma Zahira

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Natel Energy - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer

Olivia Iannini

Job Titles:
  • Associate

Pennington Biomedical

Job Titles:
  • Chief Business Development Officer

Rock Solid - CFO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Financial Officer

San Francisco Conservatory - President

Job Titles:
  • President

Sofía Marín

Job Titles:
  • Research 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

Varda Space

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Business Development

Vita Health - Chief Commercial Officer

Job Titles:
  • Chief Commercial Officer