Cathryn Paine

Cathryn Paine is a member of Russell Reynolds Associates’ Healthcare Practice. She advises clients across life sciences and deep-tech sectors on C-suite talent acquisition, board composition, and succession planning.

Prior to joining Russell Reynolds, Cathryn was a Partner and Investment Committee member at Anzu Partners, a $900M deep-tech venture firm. In this role, she led human-capital diligence on prospective investments, advised boards across 50+ portfolio companies, and originated four firm-wide P&Ls totaling $3.35M in annual operating budgets. She also served as CEO of Lex Generalis, a venture-backed law firm serving early-stage tech companies, which she co-founded and built after navigating the regulatory framework to establish the firm under Arizona's ABS regime.

Cathryn has served on the Board of Directors for MultiMechanics (acquired by Siemens) and as a Board Observer for EnCharge AI. She also served on the Search Committee for the Women On Boards Project.

Earlier in her career, Cathryn was Head of Recruiting at Mapbox, where she built the global talent function and quadrupled company headcount through $63M in Series A and B financing rounds. She began her career in operational leadership at FrontlineSMS.