The Great Resignation: Recruiting & Retaining Talent in Digital Health
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With 'The Great Resignation' being on everyone's lips, we had to ask BrightInsight's CEO Kal Patel, if this trend was affecting the Digital Health market...
Tune in to our latest podcast to hear Kal's insights on how to retain talent and create an attractive and engaging company culture for your teams.
Cristian Owen, Senior Consultant in Digital Health, asked Kal Patel about the challenges of recruiting and retaining talent in the current digital health market. Learn more about Kal's entrepreneurial leap of faith, the "Great Resignation", and Kal's advice to retain your talent.
Kal Patel has more than 20 years of experience in pharma, medtech and digital health, including MD and MBA degrees. Since co-founding BrightInsight, Kal has led three successful financing rounds totaling $166M, bringing the company’s valuation to ~$750M. Prior to that, he founded and built Amgen’s Digital Health segment and was the Global Marketing Lead for Amgen’s multi-billion-dollar autoimmune drug Enbrel. Kal spent several years at Novartis after beginning his career at Boston Consulting Group.
Cristian joined Venari Partners in 2019 and specialises in executive search across digital health and healthtech. He works closely with emerging and high-growth businesses across the US and Europe, helping them build leadership teams to support their growth and commercial ambitions. His sector expertise spans SaaS, digital therapeutics, AI, virtual care, real-world evidence (RWE) and healthcare IT, with a focus on senior appointments across strategy, business development, operations and commercial functions. With extensive experience supporting healthtech companies through key stages of growth, Cristian advises on C-suite, VP and Director-level appointments, board recruitment and succession planning. He also provides specialist support with US go-to-market expansion for European businesses, alongside interim solutions, market mapping, compensation benchmarking and leadership and organisational assessments. Combining deep sector knowledge with an understanding of the challenges facing growing healthtech businesses, Cristian brings a considered approach to identifying leadership talent and supporting organisations through critical stages of development.
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