Company Profile

Since 1974, Strawn Arnold Ashpitz Groover, Inc. (SAAG) has focused entirely on the search for, and selection of, key talent at the executive and middle management levels for the biotechnology, medical device, pharmaceutical, and healthcare services industries.

All of the principals have held significant executive and line management positions with major health care companies in North America, Europe and Asia. Because they understand the business issues facing the health care industry, they can help define search parameters to maximize effort, decrease time-to-fill, and source top talent from within the industry.

In addition, SAAG has the unique capability of offering insight and experience into every sector of the medical marketplace. In today's diverging medical climate, SAAG's partners provide a powerful solution for those firms that find themselves involved in multiple market sectors.

Since 2003 SAAG has doubled in business size and scope of clients, thanks to a firmly established strong presence in medical devices as well as continued leadership positions in pharmaceutical and biotech. Currently our firm is one of the 20 largest boutique medical retained search firms in the United States. Recent clients range from billion-dollar, multinational pharmaceutical and medical device corporations to recently formed, venture-backed start-ups.

In 2008 SAAG was ranked as one of the top 40 retained executive search firms in North America, according to a list compiled by the industry-leading newsletter Executive Recruiter News (ERN) published in its February 2008 issue.

This prestigious list of 40 executive search firms is a representation of top quality retained firms in all industries and categories: “large, small, worldwide, regional, generalist and specialist," says ERN managing editor Tom Rodenhauser. "Among the criteria we considered are quality, ethics, history, age, size, stability, contributions to the profession and a firm's reputation within the search community."