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Chris Coe and Paul Cashman Join Kingsley Gate

Global Executive Search Firm Deepens Life Sciences Expertise with Two Key Appointments

Kingsley Gate, a leading global, executive search and human capital advisory firm, today announced the continued strengthening of its international presence with the appointment of five new partners across key regions. Dan O’Donovan joins the firm’s Chicago office, Spencer Knibbe joins the New York office, Tatyana Freitas and Loreto Montoya strengthen the Latin American presence in São Paulo and Santiago respectively, while Alejandro Salazar-Simpson enhances the firm’s European capabilities from Madrid.

“These strategic appointments reflect our commitment to expanding our global footprint and delivering world-class executive search and advisory services to our clients across diverse markets,” said Andrew Holmes, CEO of Kingsley Gate. 
Andrew Holmes, CEO of Kingsley Gate

“Each of these accomplished professionals brings unique expertise and deep regional knowledge that will be invaluable as we continue to help organizations identify and secure high-impact decision makers. Their collective experience across technology, industrial, consumer goods, private equity, risk management, financial services and transformation initiatives significantly enhances our ability to serve clients with increasingly complex talent needs in today’s evolving business landscape.”

Kingsley Gate, a global executive search firm that is private-equity backed, tech-enabled, and rapidly expanding worldwide today announced that Chris Coe and Paul Cashman have been appointed to help with the expansion of the firm’s global Life Sciences Practice.

Before joining Kingsley Gate, Chris Coe was a senior Client Partner at Chaberton Partners. Prior to that he was Executive Vice President, Search at Talentmark – the first global executive search firm to focus exclusively on life sciences. At Talentmark, Chris was an instrumental part of the leadership team and responsible for growth across both executive search and interim management.

He has been a Partner and Co-Global Lead at Caldwell’s Life Sciences & Healthcare Practice and was Global Co-Leader of the Life Sciences Practice at CTPartners, and a senior Client Partner at Korn Ferry.

Chris is well known for his close ties with the biotech and medical devices investment community, and has an outstanding track-record when it comes to building high-performance leadership teams for these start-ups and growth stage firms.

Paul Cashman is a life sciences specialist with extensive experience of recruiting for Board and C-Suite roles. He joins from Chaberton Partners where he was Global Head of Healthcare and Life Sciences. Previously, he was a Partner at Odgers Berndtson’s Global Life Sciences Practice and Head of Executive Recruitment for AbbVie, a global biopharma company.

Additionally, Paul has broad expertise in leadership consulting. He was the COO for LifeSci Search, a leading provider of global consulting services. Currently, he holds a Board advisory role at CapitalConnect and is an NED at a healthcare data analytics start-up.

Chris will be based in London and Paul will divide his time between London and France. Whilst their work is truly global, their primary focus will be the UK, Europe and North America.

As part of Kingsley Gate’s continued expansion, Chiara Brega (Principal) and Louise Wakefield (Project Manager), are also joining to help support the Life Sciences Practice.

“Paul and Chris are a `dream team` combination and we’re really delighted to have them both on board,” said Eduardo Antunovic, Chief Client Officer and Senior Partner with Kingsley Gate.

“The importance of this strategic sector for Kingsley Gate is reflected in this team hire with significant international reach and deep expertise,” added Eduardo.

New research
According to a new study published by Kingsley Gate together with ‘FT Longitude’ of the Financial Times Group “Bad Decisions: Why companies miss the most important factor in executive hiring”, decision-making is a critical and often overlooked lens to identifying, assessing, onboarding and empowering leadership talent.

About Kingsley Gate

Kingsley Gate is a global, AI-native executive search firm that pairs experienced consultants with proprietary hiring intelligence. Founded in 2015 to bring a more modern approach to a profession that had long relied on the same playbook, the firm puts senior consultants at the center of every engagement. Each consultant brings deep sector and functional knowledge and stays accountable for the search from the first conversation to the final appointment. They are supported by IGNYTE, Kingsley Gate’s proprietary hiring intelligence platform, which draws on the firm’s data and decades of search experience to speed up market mapping and research. That gives consultants more time for the judgment that defines a great appointment: understanding how a leader thinks, decides, and performs once in the seat.

Operating as one unified global firm, Kingsley Gate serves more than 2,000 clients across 50+ countries. It partners with Global 2000 organizations, private equity–backed companies, and high-growth VC firms to deliver leaders who perform, adapt, and endure in their roles.

Kingsley Gate has further strengthened its sector and regional expertise through the acquisitions of The Omerta Group and Seeliger y Conde. The Omerta Group, which joined the firm in 2022, builds on Kingsley Gate’s established financial services capability and deepens its global work across investment banking, asset management, private markets, hedge funds, and digital assets. Seeliger y Conde, acquired in 2023, enhances the firm’s board and leadership advisory capabilities while extending its presence across Spain and the wider Ibero-American market.

Kingsley Gate is backed by private equity firm Crescent Cove Advisors. For more information, please visit https://www.kingsleygate.com/, www.omerta-group.com, and www.syc.es.

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