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- Toft Group Executive Search Places Ellen Lubman on Board of Advisors at TMRW Life Sciences, Inc. in New York, NY09/12/2019 - 11:06 AM
- Toft Group Executive Search Places Chris Cournoyer on Board of Directors for CareDx, Inc. in Brisbane, CA08/27/2019 - 10:12 AM
- Toft Group Executive Search Places Lori Batta as Chief Commercial Officer at TMRW Life Sciences, Inc. in New York, NY08/19/2019 - 10:00 AM
Robin Toft’s WE CAN: The Executive Woman’s Guide to Career Advancement Recognized Within List of 100 Best CEO Books of All Time by BookAuthority
/in Press Releases /by ToftgroupSAN FRANCISCO, July 9, 2019 —Toft Group Executive Search, a global life sciences and healthcare executive search firm, today announced that its Chairman and CEO, Robin Toft, has been recognized on BookAuthority’s list of 100 Best CEO Books of All Time for her recently launched professional development book titled WE CAN: The Executive Woman’s Guide to Career Advancement. WE CAN provides valuable insights to empower women to quickly navigate to the career of their dreams.
“I am incredibly honored to have made this prestigious list of best CEO books of all time,” said Robin Toft. “This recognition as one of the best books for professional development highlights my aspiration to empower women in their lives to achieve their dreams.”
The full list of 100 Best CEO Books of all time can be found here, and WE CAN: The Executive Woman’s Guide to Career Advancement can be purchased on Amazon.
As featured on CNN, Forbes and Inc, BookAuthority is the world’s leading site for nonfiction book recommendations for the best books for personal development. BookAuthority uses a proprietary technology to identify and rate the best nonfiction books, using dozens of different signals, including public mentions, recommendations, ratings, sentiment, popularity and sales history. This includes maintaining the most comprehensive collection of book recommendations from domain experts such as Elon Musk, Warren Buffett, Prof. Daniel Kahneman, Sheryl Sandberg, and David Allen.
About WE CAN
Becoming an executive is no easy task. Becoming a female executive is something else altogether. How can the ambitious woman excel, advance, and thrive in seemingly male-dominated industries with thousands of years of history working against her?
Through her own inspiring journey from employee to powerful female executive, Robin Toft shares the wisdom she gleaned at the boardroom table as an executive with over a decade of experience in executive search as Founder and CEO of the award-winning Toft Group. No matter where you are on your executive journey, Robin Toft will move you to action and empower you as a trusted partner through every aspect of your career advancement. Part manual and part memoir, WE CAN provides the confidence, language, and tools to design and realize the career of your dreams. Land the job, make vertical moves, and secure a seat at the boardroom table.
About Robin Toft
Upon founding Toft Group in 2010, Robin essentially launched a second career, following more than two decades as a biotech executive. She was awarded Woman of the Year in San Diego in 2017, in 2018 and 2019 she was a finalist in Ernst & Young’s prestigious Entrepreneur of the Year awards, and she’s been honored as a finalist for San Diego Business Journal’s “Women Who Mean Business” and “Most Admired CEO” awards in multiple years. Robin’s work with Toft Group combines a deep inside knowledge of the life science industry with a passion for building game-changing management teams.
About Toft Group Executive Search
Toft Group is a global life sciences and healthcare executive search firm specializing in diversity and a focus on innovation-driven companies at the intersection of biotech and high tech. Toft Group’s targeted, accurate searches translate into exceptional return-on-investment for clients nationwide, and the team’s extensive networks enable the presentation of more highly qualified and diverse candidates than clients would otherwise see. The firm’s extensive track record has shown its ability to quickly fill highly specialized leadership roles where talent is limited. The company has offices in the three major U.S. biotech hubs: San Diego, San Francisco and Boston. For more information, please visit thetoftgroup.com.
Toft Group Executive Search Places Patricia Sandler as National Sales Director at OPKO Health, Inc. in Miami, FL
/in Press Releases /by ToftgroupToft Group Executive Search, a global life sciences and healthcare executive recruiting firm, has successfully placed Patricia Sandler as National Sales Director at OPKO Health, Inc. in Miami, FL.
Ms. Sandler previously served as Field Vice President at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) overseeing a large team, promoting their respiratory inhaler portfolio. Before GSK, Sandler led commercial operations at Omeros Corporation, managing the comprehensive reimbursement support program and launch. She also previously held progressive commercial roles at Sunovion Pharmaceuticals, including Sales Team Lead for the respiratory portfolio, Interim Marketing Lead managing a product launch and prior as Executive Director, CNS Marketing for Lunesta brand. Sandler also drove marketing and sales activities within the gastroenterology portfolio at Johnson & Johnson.
Sandler holds a BS. in business administration from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania.
About OPKO Health, Inc.
OPKO Health is a diversified healthcare company. In diagnostics, its BioReference Laboratories is the nation’s third largest clinical laboratory; GeneDx is a rapidly growing genetic testing business; the 4Kscore® prostate cancer test is used to confirm an elevated PSA to help decide about next steps such as prostate biopsy; Claros® 1 is a point-of-care diagnostics platform with a total PSA test approved by the FDA and testosterone as the most advanced test in development. In the pharmaceutical pipeline, RAYALDEE is their first pharmaceutical product to be marketed. OPK88003, a once-weekly oxyntomodulin for type 2 diabetes and obesity recently reported positive data from a Phase 2 clinical trial. It’s among a new class of GLP-1/glucagon receptor dual agonists. OPK88004, a SARM (selective androgen receptor modulator) is currently being studied for various potential indications. The Company’s most advanced product utilizing its CTP technology, a once-weekly human growth hormone for injection, is in Phase 3 trials, and is partnered with Pfizer. OPKO also has research, development, production and distribution facilities abroad.
About Toft Group Executive Search
Toft Group is a global executive search firm fully devoted to life sciences and healthcare, with a focus on innovation-driven companies working at the intersection of biotech and high tech. The team’s extensive relationship network and diversity focus enables Toft Group to present more highly qualified and diverse candidates than clients would otherwise meet. Toft Group excels at quickly filling the hardest to hire leadership roles where talent is limited. The company has offices in the three major U.S. biotech hubs: San Francisco, San Diego and Boston.
Toft Group Executive Search Successfully Places Grace Colón, Ph.D. on Board of Directors for CareDx, Inc. in Brisbane, CA
/in Press Releases /by ToftgroupToft Group Executive Search, a global life sciences and healthcare executive recruiting firm, has successfully placed Grace Colón, Ph.D, on the Board of Directors for CareDx, Inc. in Brisbane, CA.
Dr. Colón has served as President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of InCarda Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical stage company developing therapeutics for cardiovascular conditions since 2013. In addition to her role at InCarda, she is also Executive Chairman (formerly CEO) of ProterixBio and is on the board of Cocoon Biotech. Previously, she served on the boards of Paradigm Diagnostics and PerceptiMed. She was formerly a partner at New Science Ventures and held various leadership roles at Intrexon Corporation, Gilead Sciences and Affymetrix. Earlier in her career, she was an engagement manager with McKinsey & Co.
Dr. Colón is a native of San Juan, Puerto Rico. She received her Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she conducted doctoral and post-doctoral research on metabolic engineering of industrial amino acids. She also holds a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, where she was a Benjamin Franklin Scholar.
About CareDx
CareDx, Inc., headquartered in Brisbane, California, is a molecular diagnostics company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of clinically differentiated, high-value diagnostic solutions for transplant recipients. CareDx offers products along the pre- and post-transplant testing continuum and is the leading provider of genomics-based information for transplant patients.
About Toft Group Executive Search
Toft Group is a global executive search firm fully devoted to life sciences and healthcare, with a focus on innovation-driven companies working at the intersection of biotech and high tech. The team’s extensive relationship network and diversity focus enables Toft Group to present more highly qualified and diverse candidates than clients would otherwise meet. Toft Group excels at quickly filling the hardest to hire leadership roles where talent is limited. The company has offices in the three major U.S. biotech hubs: San Francisco, San Diego, and Boston.