Christoph Schlegel

Christoph helps clients reach their full potential by making the right leadership choices, leveraging his experience, empathy, and offering appropriate challenge.

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Christoph advises clients in the healthcare industry, with a particular focus on pharma, biotech, and medtech. He also works with private equity clients investing in healthcare and their portfolio companies. His particular focus is to help clients make the right leadership choices to achieve maximum potential, leveraging his deep understanding of the industry, technology, and underlying scientific, regulatory and political trends.

Based in Frankfurt, Christophs serves clients in Germany and across Europe, together with the Russell Reynolds healthcare team.

Christoph leverages over 20 years of experience in the healthcare and healthcare private equity ecosystem. Prior to joining Russell Reynolds, Christoph was a partner at Bain & Company. At Bain, Christoph advised leadership teams in the pharma, biotech and medtech industries on product and portfolio strategy, scenario planning and the implications on organizational design and culture, ranging from corporate structure to redefining the collaboration between key departments, like R&D and Commercial. For his private equity clients, Christoph focused on Commercial Due Diligence and Value Maximization strategies. Christoph started his career at Monitor (now part of Deloitte), where he led several launch strategy projects for blockbuster drugs and developed strategies for global medtech companies, particularly in the diagnostics space.

Christoph studied business and economics at the University of St. Gallen (HSG), Switzerland and the London School of Economics, UK, majoring in Financial and Capital Markets. Christoph holds a lic.oec (HSG) [MA Business & Economics] from the University of St. Gallen.
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Areas of Expertise

BioTech Board Director and Chair Search CEO Succession Chief Executive Officers C-Suite Succession Customer Activation and Growth Digital Health Executive Search Family Business Health Services Med Tech, Devices & Diagnostics Pharma

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