Internet Health Portal Hires 4th Year McKinsey EM as Director of Strategic Development

This is the first installment of a new monthly feature highlighting one of our placements from the proceeding month. It is designed to give clients and candidates insight into the types of roles that we have placed, as well as the caliber of candidates in our database who are still actively looking.

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Hawkes Peers has placed a candidate in the role of Director of Strategic Development for our client, a leading Internet health portal. We have been asked to commence an additional search for an Associate Director as well.

The candidate who was hired had been at at McKinsey in the Marketing and CPG/Retail practices. He joined McKinsey following his MBA in 2004. He had additional undergrad experience in Brand Management from Coke and Conagra.

Of 14 candidates submitted for the role 11 were interviewed, and 4 were considered for the final round.

The successful candidates who did not ultimately receive an offer included:

• A Bain Case Team Leader with a Wharton MBA. Prior to Business School she built an internet startup which was acquired.
• An MD Consultant from McKinsey's Pharma practice. He was focused on go-to-market strategy for new OTC products.
• A Project Leader from BCG with an MBA fro MIT. He was a member of the Technology Practice.
  

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