Executive Search
Find your next leader.
Our Retained Executive Search Practice is the premier partner for navigating complex Life Sciences and Healthcare executive searches. With hands-on engagement from our CEO & Founder and our Managing Director of Executive Search, we provide personalized, high-level support. Our team combines deep industry expertise with a proven methodology that accelerates time-to-hire, ensuring efficiency and precision. Through a rigorous search intake process and a keen understanding of your company’s culture and leadership dynamics, we deliver top-tier talent for your most critical and strategic leadership roles.
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Kester Search Group
Your Partner for Executive Search
Led by industry veteran Lee Kester, Kester Search Group specializes in high-stakes executive search. Our team has a proven track record of delivering top-tier talent to both emerging startups and Fortune 500 corporations.
Lee Kester brings a wealth of experience in partnering with venture-backed companies and established enterprises. His deep understanding of the market and his role as a VentureSouth investor provide unique insights into the evolving landscape of healthcare and technology.
By leveraging our expertise, we execute critical searches with precision and efficiency. Our goal is to find the ideal candidates who will drive your business forward.
Recent Placements
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Great Lakes Dental Technologies
GENERAL MANAGER
Oral Surgery Business Unit
VICE PRESIDENT OF SALES
Startup, Neurology Company
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
PE-Backed Dental Group
GENERAL MANAGER
Point-of-Care Business Unit
GENERAL MANAGER
Consumer Diagnostic Testing Division
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
Dental Group Roll-Up (DSO)
CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER
Medical Waste Disposal Company
GENERAL MANAGER
Neurology Business Unit
CHIEF GROWTH OFFICER
Healthcare Cyber Security Firm
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
Advanced Manufacturing – Medical
EQi 2.0 We strongly believe in the link between Emotional Intelligence (EQ) and effective leadership. To ensure you hire the best talent, we evaluate all finalist candidates using the EQi 2.0 Leadership Report. This comprehensive assessment scores candidates across 20 key leadership competencies, providing your team with the critical insights needed to make informed and impactful hiring decisions.
The KSG Difference
- Industry Expertise
- White Glove Service From Our Leadership Team
- Thorough Search Intake Process
- Emotional Intelligence Screening & Assessments
- Continuous Collaboration & Communication
- Reduced Time To Hire
What Others Say
Our leadership team was quite impressed with their ability to run an effective and efficient recruiting and interviewing process from the discovery phase all the way through the successful hire of two different General Managers. I would definitely recommend Lee Kester as well as this boutique search firm if you are in need of a collaborative recruiting business partner to be of assistance within the Diagnostics, Digital Health, or Medical Device industries.
Richard Schwabacher, SVP of Healthcare Products at Inmar Intelligence
As the CEO of Accora, I recently hired Kester Search Group as our recruiting business partner to run a retained search for a Sr. Director role for our business in the U.S. I found their consultative and collaborative approach to be quite effective both with my leadership team as well as the candidate pool. Through their extensive network of Sr. Leaders in the states and their recruiting expertise, they were able to successfully place this role. I would highly recommend Kester Search Group to Board Members as well as C-Suite executives who are seeking an executive search firm with which to partner.
Samuel Drake, CEO at Accora
As a healthcare executive with 30 years of experience, including time spent at Johnson & Johnson as President of the DePuy Synthes division, General Manager of Dentsply, CEO of OrthoAccel, and General Manager of Henry Schein, I’ve had the opportunity to work with numerous different recruiting agencies. If you are looking for a fantastic consultative executive search partner, I highly recommend Lee Kester and the entire team at Kester Search Group. The firm specializes in executive search for the medical device, diagnostic, and dental industries, with expertise in retained C-Suite and VP / Director level recruiting projects. It was very evident that KSG has healthcare domain expertise, excellent client discovery questions, and a defined A-Z executive search process focusing on delivering quality quickly while staying true to their mission of improving lives, building great companies, and driving innovation. If you are currently serving on a Board of Directors or in the C-Suite of a growth-oriented healthcare company and in need of a boutique retained strategic search partner, you are in good hands with the team at Kester Search Group.
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We guarantee to pour our resources into finding top-notch talent for you, bringing depth, determination and dedication to each and every recruiting project.