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Leadership search and 0→1 team builds for healthcare startups, investors, GCCs and providers.

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Healthcare startups, funds and providers we’ve hired for

Boutique by design.

One sector, a deliberate number of searches, and leaders who stay.

~100

leadership mandates a year

90%

12-month retention

9 in 10

250K+

healthcare network

Not a stack of CVs. A shortlist worth deciding on.

Healthcare is all we do, and here’s how that changes the search.

  1. The generalist recruiter way: Long lists of CVs

    The Xponentiate way: A short, vetted shortlist

  2. The generalist recruiter way: Screens CVs by hand, one at a time

    The Xponentiate way: Xena, our AI recruiter, sources, interviews and scores every candidate first

  3. The generalist recruiter way: Keyword-matches job titles

    The Xponentiate way: Understands the clinical and regulatory context

  4. The generalist recruiter way: Measures placements

    The Xponentiate way: Measures how the hire performs

01

Healthcare is the only sector we hire for

Payer and provider, value-based care, DPDP, HIPAA, RCM. We know the context behind the title before the first call.

  • Managing Director, India, US–India healthcare venture studio
  • Medical Director, India-based fertility clinic
  • Chief Marketing Officer, India-based pain management startup
  • Director of Operations, US–India mental health startup
  • Head of Enablement, US–India interventional psychiatry
  • Chief Executive Officer, Stealth startup in preventive healthcare
  • Chief Executive Officer, India-based pain management startup
  • Strategic advisors at top healthcare VC funds, India and the US
  • CXOs of some of the largest hospital chains, India
  • CHROs and Heads of Talent
  • Heads of Product and Engineering
  • Investment Partner in a stealth fund, US–India corridor
  • Senior healthcare operators
02

A network built on relationships

Operators, CXOs, clinicians and investors we’ve met through searches and closed-door events. Many strong leaders aren’t actively looking.

03

The best leaders aren’t looking

Job boards and LinkedIn reach people who are applying. We run searches confidentially, inside our network, to reach the leaders who aren’t.

  • Reached by job boards and LinkedIn
  • Reached through our network, confidentially

Xena

AI recruiter at Xponentiate

Meet Xena. She does the groundwork, our talent partners make the call.

Then our talent partner takes over: deep interviews, references and the close.

Founding COO · healthtech startupXena is working on this mandateIllustrative example

What Xena took from the briefStep 1 of 5

Must-haves

  • Multi-site operations
  • 0→1 build
  • Healthcare background

Nice to have

  • Investor-facing
  • US–India exposure

Context

  • Series A
  • Equity-heavy
  • Bengaluru

Shortlist decisions are made by an Xponentiate talent partner.

Who we work with

Redesign HealthVCs, PE & Venture Studios
“They knew the mandate from their work before and worked patiently with us.”
Travis DeMarTravis DeMarDirector of Talent, Redesign Health

India MD

for a US venture studio’s move into APAC.

Read the case studyMore on VCs, PE & Venture Studios

Recent work

All case studies
Everbright HealthUS founder hiring

0 → 350+

provider partners, built by the founder we placed

The search behind it

  1. 1,000+profiles mapped
  2. 400+pre-screened
  3. 100+job simulations
  4. 1joiner
Read the case study

In our clients’ words

Working with Xponentiate felt like partnering with a team that truly understood my career goals and the entrepreneurial opportunity.
Ben KuhnFounder & CEO, Everbright Health

How a mandate runs

First shortlist typically within 72 hours of an agreed brief

  1. 01

    Brief

    What the business needs, not just the title.

  2. 02

    Personas

    Candidate archetypes you choose from.

  3. 03

    Search

    AI sourcing and scoring with Xena, then job simulations.

  4. 04

    Shortlist & close

    References, offer and onboarding.

Publishing soon

Notes from inside the leadership market

Data, playbooks and field notes from our searches.

  • Report

    India healthcare leadership pay, 2026

    CXO and VP pay benchmarks across healthtech, providers and GCCs.

  • Playbook

    The first ten hires for a US–India healthtech

    Who to hire in which country, and in what order.

  • Field notes

    What GCC site leaders get wrong in year one

    Patterns from healthcare GCC leadership searches.

  • Playbook

    Hiring a founder-CEO for a studio thesis

    How to sell an idea to an operator who isn’t looking.

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