In her current role as Sr. Director, RPO, Shannon works closely with stakeholders, internally and externally, to create robust sourcing and recruiting strategies as well as building out sales teams. With 25+ years in the Life Sciences industry, Shannon has extensive knowledge from the field with 10+ years of increasing responsibility, starting as a sales representative right out of college to becoming a District Manager, Regional Director and Project Director before moving over to recruiting for the second phase of her career. Shannon has over 15+ years in recruiting within the pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device space, as well as, extensive experience building sales teams for the commercialization of products, specializing in smaller specialty teams in the orphan and rare disease space. Shannon’s favorite aspect of recruiting is being able to make the perfect connection and/or placement that is a “win” across the board- for the company, client & candidate. Within her recruiting experience, she has focused on helping clients build and launch numerous sales teams. Her portfolio includes Sun Pharma, Relypsa, InterMune, Walgreen’s Specialty Pharmacy and CSL Behring, to name a few.

Shannon currently resides in Michigan and earned her Bachelor’s degree in Nutritional Science with a pre-med focus from Michigan State University.