Mari combines her search experience with people knowledge, small business acumen and financial expertise to provide comprehensive value added searches.

Mari Paul understands that an insightful third party can provide great value in key hiring by pointing out opportunities and strengths of the new leader and the existing management to each other. Knowing mutual synergies can help build a shared understanding of the vision and community of spirit that enables a team to really succeed.

Prior to her fifteen years in search, Mari spent almost twenty years providing tax and financial advice to large and small companies. After working with Price Waterhouse, Coopers & Lybrand, Bank of America, and Fujitsu, she realized that putting the right leaders to the right use benefited companies more than putting money to the right use. In 1987 she changed her focus to the human resource.

While her education includes a Finance degree with honors, an MBA and a law degree, Mari feels she gained most of her skills from being raised as a third generation entrepreneur. Here she learned how much like a family small business is; where early stage leaders mix management tools with parenting techniques to encourage company growth. Here is where she gained a comprehensive understanding of how a company lives and grows, how important values are, and how to determine the “natural fit” executive for the position.

During her career, Mari has made many significant placements of people who truly made a difference to their companies.

A selected few of these are for companies such as:

• The PowderJect Group of companies
  PowderJect Pharmaceuticals, plc (President and COO)
  PowderJect Technologies, Inc. (GM/President)
  PowderJect Vaccines, Inc. (Various)
  PowderChek Inc. (CEO)
• Dey Laboratories (VP QA/QC)
• ViaCell (CEO)
• Orchid BioSciences (Various)
• Circe BioMedical (CEO)
• LifeCell (CEO)
• Coley Pharmaceuticals (CEO)