The Sonder Group is a boutique executive search firm that specializes in recruiting senior executives and scientists for life science and clean tech companies. They have been operating since 2004 and strive to understand their clients' business goals and company culture to find the best candidates. Their areas of expertise include personalized medicine, genomics, diagnostics, medical devices, and clean tech. They help build executive teams and scientific advisory boards that add value to dynamic life sciences companies.

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7. Karen Whitney, President Operational & Executive Search Experience Karen founded The Sonder Group in 2003 and works with emerging companies to deliver value by placing top executive leaders and scientists. Most recently, she was Vice President of Business Development at The NewcoGen Group (a Flagship Ventures Fund). In this role she built teams and the revenue streams for Genstruct (Selvanta) and BG Medicine (NASDAQ: BGMD), both personalized medicine companies. For seventeen years, she held sales, marketing leadership roles at Celera Genomics, Applied Biosystems, (Life Technologies), and Pharmacia (GE Healthcare). Over the span of her career she has developed a wide network and a unique appreciation for the type of people who add value to today’s companies. She earned a Bachelors of Arts, PreMed at Colby College.