“Over the past year, Lauren Nykvist and her team at HireBio have been instrumental in helping to evolve and transform our talent acquisition and employer branding strategy, which was especially helpful as we transitioned to a public company in 2024. Lauren’s deep industry knowledge and exceptional network have enabled us to fill key positions quickly and with top-notch talent. She played a crucial role in revamping our LinkedIn company and job board profiles for enhanced visibility and greater talent reach, helped us benchmark and enhance our benefits package as part of our Total Rewards strategy and helped us evaluate our new Applicant Tracking System that fits our growth needs. Lauren also collaborated with us to craft our scaling strategy, guided our early designs and options around our commercial build-out, and even helped us with our search for our new Talent Acquisition and Total Rewards Director. Her strategic insights and dedication to excellence have truly elevated our hiring processes, quality of candidates, time to fill, and set us up for long-term success. She operates as a true partner and natural extension of our HR team.”
CA-Based Public Biotechnology CompanyHR Leader
Lauren has been an invaluable partner in launching our start-up. Her "get it done" mindset was essential for transforming our company from the idea stage to a fully operational organization. She played a key role in several activities, including establishing payroll, finalizing benefit packages, securing registrations and business certifications, recruiting our leadership team, implementing important policies, and identifying critical third-party business partners in IT, legal, and public relations.
While the outcomes of these efforts are vital—especially in the start-up phase—what stands out is how Lauren achieved these results. She served as a crucial thought partner for me as a first-time CEO, helping to prioritize key activities and decisions while leveraging her extensive network and experience.
What I appreciated most about Lauren was her positive attitude and customer service-oriented approach in every task and interaction. She consistently used terms like “we” and “us” when referring to our company, which always brought a smile to my face.
Lauren is fantastic, and I hope to continue partnering with her well into the future.
CEO Private Pre-Clinical Stealth Biotech Company
Lauren is, to be succinct, awesome. She is one of the sharpest recruiting minds I have ever worked with. Lauren is a joy to be around, and helps bring a lot of fun and passion to work every day. One of the smartest people I have worked with in my career.
Vice President of Global Talent BrandingPublic Biotech Company
I had a huge task of filling out an entire market access team. This included both my leadership as well as my field staff. Starting from scratch is never easy and it is made more challenging when your company is a virtual unknown. Add to this that we are in the Boston Biotech world where at least 3 other companies were doing the same things.
Wow, did Lauren nail this for me! She used amazing connections to bring me candidates that are unbelievably talented and she sold them on both this tiny company but also on the vision we have. I know the candidates all were left with a super positive opinion of the company even when we choose to go a different direction. We have build a great team together.
I will also say that when the last person on my team is in role, I will regret not working with Lauren. She has made a huge challenge a great deal of fun.
“Their advice has helped us tremendously in two ways: to achieve our goals of obtaining a diverse workforce and to fulfill our compliance requirements.”
Commercial Executive- Private Biotech Company
This endorsement is long overdue but greatly earned. Lauren worked on the expansion of my team. In the space of just a few months during the lead up to a new product launch Lauren was responsible for recruiting a fantastic team of over 20 new managed markets directors. She accomplished this tremendous feat by personally identifying a large pool of qualified applicants all without any additional recruiting costs and very few relocations saving hundreds of thousands of dollars for the organization. She worked hard to understand our needs and was an excellent business partner along the way.
Commercial ExecutivePublic Biotech Company
Lauren is a startup founder's talent finding dream. She works diligently, efficiently and effectively and has that rare combination of EQ, business sense and pragmatism needed to excel at finding great talent to match organizational needs. She is the true definition of a partner. I cannot recommend Lauren more highly, and I have been on both the hiring and hired by sides of working with Lauren. From both the recruiting company and the candidate perspective, she is great at communication, follow-up and is most importantly trustworthy. When I started my company, Lauren was among my first calls, and I am thrilled to have her helping to build our team!
