Leading with Purpose
We Recruit Leaders Who Build Breakaway Digital Health Companies
Who is Soul Search Partners
Soul Search Partners is an executive recruitment platform focused on Retained Executive Search, Incubation Partnership and Collaborative Foundership. We partner with leading incubation studios, venture and growth equity investors.
Because we specialize in the Health ecosystem, we have a unique ability to align three core constituencies: investors, entrepreneurs and executive leaders.
Soul Search’s differentiation relies on our wholehearted approach to connect to the visions and motivations of each individual person.
If you’re an investor or founder, you’re here because our experience will ensure that you build a leadership team that can deliver. We will find the person or people you need to up-level, fill in the gaps, and hit the next inflection point. It takes great people to build great companies and new ventures, and digital health requires unique and purpose-driven executive talent.
If you’re here as an executive, your desire is to have a meaningful impact. You see a path for more ubiquitous healthcare. Maybe you saw or experienced the health system and know it can be done better. Or, your interest stems from the opportunity to disrupt an enormous market sector. Whatever is driving your motivation, we look forward to helping you on your journey.
The opportunities in digital health can mean the difference in life and death, pain or ease of suffering, lack of access. You can make a difference.
Platform
Retained Executive Search
We strive for deep alignment with our boards and founders, combined with fearless strategic conversations to develop the go-to-market plan for each project. We work intently and aggressively to ensure clients meet the executives who are achieving great outcomes in their current roles. We always get the best person in the right seat.
Today, we specialize in CEO, President/COO, GTM, Product and Finance.
At Soul, one of the things we do best is work with investors to help find the CEO’s who will put their companies on a growth trajectory. Whether it’s seed, incubation or a formal funding round, these CEOs come with a unique skillset.
Incubation Partnership
A cornerstone of our model is to partner with top-tier investors as their incubation partner. The right team de-risks an early venture. Soul’s deep domain expertise ensures you bring in the CEO who can build competitive, lasting, and meaningful companies. Every day, we have the fortunate distinction of getting to know the executives who are purpose-built to challenge conventional wisdom and see new groundbreaking ideas and turn them into business. We are proud of our first CEO’s and dedicate this section to thank them. We praise you and believe in you.
Collaborative Foundership
Top tier executives have an inner voice of transformative ideas and operational brilliance. If you have an idea you want to bring to life we will help you build, fund, advise or operate that new business model.
Investors We Serve
Team
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Michelle Garland
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Brynn Daniels
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Elizabeth Wolski
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Katherine Cook
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Pallavi Chadha
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Halli Dobson
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Rob Pecorelli
Investor Testimonials
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"Michelle is a legend in this business and it is a well earned moniker. She knows everyone, understands the landscape of health care like few in the industry and has personal relationships with top talent across the country. She thinks strategically about your team's evolution and knows both who is a good fit for one role and how all the team pieces will fit together over time."
A.G. Breitenstein, Define Ventures
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“Michelle has been a trusted partner of ours in the very competitive landscape of executive search. She is great at all phases: sourcing, evaluating and selling candidates."
Vinod Khosla
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"Michelle is probably the best health care person in search. We have worked with her many times and been delighted. I am so happy to be working together on an ongoing basis to build AlleyCorp’s healthcare portfolio and incubations."
Kevin Ryan, AlleyCorp
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"There is no one more talented than Michelle for an executive search for a digital health company. I consider myself lucky when Michelle chooses to work with us on search. She has a deep and trusted network unlike anyone else's"
Mamoon Hamid, Kleiner
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“When it comes to finding placing talent, Michelle and her team are unmatched. Michelle has placed many healthcare leaders in our portfolio companies and without fail, each of the candidates are of the highest caliber. I trust Michelle and have complete peace of mind knowing Soul Search Partners is on our team.”
Joel Landau, Pinta Partners
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“Michelle recruited the CEO of One Medical for us. She's tenacious, sensitive to the clients and candidates interests and never quits!”
Bruce Dunlevie, Benchmark Capital
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“Michelle is killer at executive search. I have worked with her on many assignments over the past decade and she works tirelessly with her clients to get the right answer not the easy answer. She also has an amazing reach in the healthcare industry. I highly recommend working with her and Soul Search.”
Steve Kraus, Bessemer
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"You can't build a great company without great people. Michelle finds those great people."
Aabed B. Meer, MD, Partner - Questa Capital
CEO Testimonials
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“Michelle has the best talent network in healthcare tech, bar none. In addition to the decades of experience placing candidates across startups and public companies, she also brings a flexible and collaborative mindset. Not to mention she is also a lot of FUN to work with.”
Andrew Adams, CEO & Cofounder, Headway
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“Michelle has both recruited me into 2 new companies, and has recruited many people for me into those new companies. In all cases, Michelle does an incredible job of seeing potential in the new company and the person match — not exactly sure how she does it, but I’ve seen it work over and over again.”
Brent Dover, CEO, Carta
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“I partnered with Michelle on Beam's first ever CFO search; as a midwest based company with less press coverage than larger market venture backed companies, we were concerned about our ability to attract a world class finance leader, so we asked Michelle for her help. Not only were we blown away by the candidate quality, Michelle spent extra time and effort with us as the search got deeper and became an advisor to us.”
Alex Frommeyer, CEO, Beam Dental
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“Michelle Garland is one of the most effective Executive Search professionals I’ve ever worked with. Michelle and her team truly understand what it means to build a world class team. And she has delivered great results for me every time!”
Mark Thierer, CEO, Waltz Health
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“I've worked with Michelle and her teams for years. She is as good as they get! Moves quick, gets s*** done, knows everyone and everyone knows her. Has help me make great hires in the past and will do doubt do so again in the future"
Randall Klein, CEO, Vesta
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“Michelle is that rare mix of healthcare content, strong connections, and integrity under all situations. Further, there is nothing transactional about Michelle; I call her regularly for advice. She has a true passion for helping businesses thrive.“
Miki Kapoor, Founding CEO, Verana Health & Operating Partner, Linden Capital
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“We work with Michelle and her team because they can recruit and deliver the highest caliber talent at the intersection of tech and digital health. They listen and adjust to our needs.”
Mark Prather, CEO, Dispatch
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“SoulSearch helped Mayday Health recruit two exceptional Advisory Board members we would not have connected with otherwise. Michelle was a pleasure to work with: dedicated, responsive, and exceptionally well-networked. I would work with SoulSearch again in any search for healthcare/health tech executives.”
Nathaniel Brooks Horwitz, Founder & President of Mayday
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"We needed a rock star and Soul Search nailed it. For our most critical hire Michelle and her team quickly put me in a position of having to choose between multiple finalists. Our new hire is an amazing fit and is pushing us further, faster. Importantly Soul Search responds to a challenge - ask for more of this or less of that and they immediately pivot. Life is short, I love working with fun people who set the bar at what they do, so no surprise, Soul Search has become an amazing partner."
Chris Bergstrom, President, AmalgamRx
Our Clients
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