Sarah Schiavone

Client Partner – Italy

+441737 926057 sarah.schiavone@morganprestwich.com

Sarah is an Italian national who initially worked for Morgan Prestwich as a consultant translator for senior searches across Italy and Switzerland. It soon became apparent how well liked she was by clients and candidates, and in early 2018 Sarah joined the team permanently to grow the Italian and Swiss markets. Her strength is start-up Bio-pharmaceutical, consultancies and Med-Tech companies, working Board, C-Level, Senior Management and Management positions.

Sarah leads our Italian office based out of Milan, she travels between Italy and Switzerland regularly where her client base continues to grow.

Sarah's Expertise

Board, C-suite, Leadership

Great science deserves great teams and great teams need exceptional leadership. This applies right across the whole value chain from Drug Development through to Commercialisation, and getting the right leadership team in place early is a critical success factor. We have an enviable track record of advising and building top Boards and Leadership teams globally, spearheaded by CEO and Founder, Greg Bell, ably supported Sean Morgan-Jones (CCO) and Senior Client Partners Magdalena Meyer, Iman Askari and Emile Hadian.

Clinical Development

Our expert clinical development team support clients from Pre-Clinical through clinical phases I – IV. We strengthen Boards and Leadership teams to develop their science in preparation for commercialisation or acquisition. We work with true start-up Biotech companies in rare, orphan, and speciality diseases, where science can have a real impact on patient lives.

Commercialisation

The Morgan Prestwich Team are the only search firm globally to have exclusively built over 14 biotech companies entire international launch teams (Leadership, Commercial, Medical), both above-country and in-country.

Delivering ground breaking medical innovation to a patient’s bedside relies on the expertise of professionals in Leadership, Medical, Product Launch, Market Access, Marketing and Sales, and these are core to our heritage. Led by our Senior Client Partners, Magdelena Meyer, Emile Haddian (Medical Affairs) and Iman Askari, all supported closely by CEO, Greg Bell, our commercialisation practice has extensive global networks which deliver an A Class team alongside your A Class medicine.

Manufacturing and Distribution

With ever evolving scientific endeavour comes additional logistical challenges, ranging from complex manufacturing processes to cold storage and transportation of new biologics and gene therapies. Our manufacturing and distribution practice boast a first class global network of experts in this field who are available on a full-time or contract basis.

Medical Affairs

Our clients are focused on leading edge scientific innovation, making Medical and Medical Affairs a pivotal function. Simon Felton, one of the sector’s most knowledgeable and experienced consultants, leads this practice. Simon, together with his team, can build a client’s entire medical function across Europe and North America, from global and above-country senior leadership through to in-country affiliate build out. Our multilingual team of experts work on business-critical projects from Chief Medical Officer recruitment through to building entire teams of MSLs.

Medical Technology

Our Medical Technology (Devices) team is led by a dedicated team of Resourcers and Researchers spanning Europe and the US. With more than 500,000 medical technologies available today, and new innovations expanding those numbers exponentially, our MedTech team work tirelessly with clients around the world to bring leading edge talent to leading edge technologies. They share a common purpose of improving, extending, and transforming people’s lives.