President – Life Sciences
Vice President – France & Southern Switzerland –
All KCI Industries
Adam El Din serves as President – Life Sciences for Ken Clark
International (KCI) from the firm’s Geneva office in Switzerland.
He joined KCI in 2005.
El Din is responsible for business development with clients of
KCI in Western Europe. His Industry focus is Life Sciences (pharmaceutical,
medical, biological, diagnostic, consumer health and scientific
products as well as manufacturing, research and laboratory services)
and Medical and Health Care Services. In serving his clients, El
Din often “teams” with KCI’s offices in North
America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America and Middle East/Africa.
He also “teams” with KCI’s specialty practices
when appropriate. As often as possible, KCI’s geographic and
industry “expertise” is presented to clients.
El Din is accountable for the success of all search projects in
Life Sciences in Western Europe. He leads search project planning
discussions - local, regional or global scope; in-near-outside the
box recruiting targets; and candidate qualifications including skills,
knowledge, activities and accomplishments. He supervises Researchers
and Recruiters in search project execution that includes: people
and company research; contacting and motivating of possible candidates;
and screening of potential candidates. El Din himself conducts performance-based
evaluations and management and leadership evaluations of finalist
candidates. Finally, he also coordinates employment offer negotiations
and final recruiting of the chosen candidate.
El Din also serves as the Vice President – France and Southern
Switzerland – All Industries for KCI. In this role, El Din
is responsible for business development with clients of KCI in Southern
Switzerland and France who are in the Consumer; Industrial, Chemicals
and Materials and Advanced Technology industries.
Prior to joining KCI, El Din held executive roles in subsidiaries
of Pfizer - Hospital Products Group as well as two start-up and
fast growth companies. His roles included heading sales, marketing,
clinical affairs, regulatory affairs, new product development and
quality assurance. El Din also held the position of Vice President,
Marketing and Sales with Wallster Medical.
Past KCI clients in Life Sciences in Western Europe include: Actelion;
Agilent Technologies; Anika Therapeutics; Becton Dickinson; Biogen
IDEC; Bioniche; bioMerieus; Boston Scientific; Covance; Edwards
Lifesciences; Eidetica Biopharma; Endosense; EntoMed; Ethypharm;
Flamel Technologies; Galderma Laboratories; Gambro; GE Healthcare;
GlaxoSmithKline; Immuno-Designed Molecules; InnaPhase; Innogenetics;
IntegraGen; Intuitive Surgical; Invacare; Ipsen; Johnson & Johnson;
MDS; Medtronic; Mentor; Merck Sharp & Dohme; Merial; Minntech;
NeuroControl; Quintiles Transnational; ResMed; Roundtable Health
Care Partners; Sanofi-Aventis; Sanofi Pasteur; SGS; Straumann; Stryker;
Terumo; WL Gore; and Wyeth.
Past KCI clients in France & Southern Switzerland include:
Burson-Marsteller; L’Oreal; and Staples.
El Din studied medicine and earned his degree from Cairo University
in Eygpt. He also has an MBA from the United States.