Polaris Venture Partners Expands Executive Recruiting Team.Addition of Spencer Stuart Alums Gives Polaris' Portfolio Companies Access to the Most Extensive and Experienced Executive Recruiting Team in the VC Community WALTHAM, Mass. -- Polaris Venture Partners, a national venture capital firm with over $3 billion under management, today announced a significant expansion to its internal recruiting team with the addition of two Directors of Portfolio Recruiting. Lindsay Barnett and Joanna LaPlaca, most recently of Spencer Stuart and ZRG ZRG Z Resource Group respectively, join Polaris to identify and recruit senior executive talent for the firm's portfolio companies. Polaris invests in seed, early stage and growth equity businesses in the technology, life science, digital media, enertech and consumer sectors. Barnett and LaPlaca will report to Peter Flint, general partner at Polaris and head of all strategic recruiting efforts for Polaris portfolio companies. "Recruiting first-rate management teams is a great example of how Polaris takes an active role in the development and success of our portfolio companies. With many portfolio companies at critical points in their growth, now is the right time to invest in truly stellar, experienced recruiters who can have significant impact on our portfolio's success," said Peter Flint, general partner with Polaris Venture Partners. "Lindsay's experience securing world-class executives for technology companies and Joanna's background in life sciences senior management recruiting adds invaluable industry expertise to our portfolio recruiting efforts." Lindsay Barnett joins Polaris Venture Partners from Spencer Stuart, one of the world's leading executive search firms, where she was an integral part of the Technology, Communications and Media practice. As a Director of Portfolio Recruiting at Polaris, Barnett will work closely with the firm's technology portfolio companies. Joanna LaPlaca joins Polaris Venture Partners as a Director of Portfolio Recruiting focused on the firm's life sciences companies. LaPlaca previously held the position of senior consultant at ZRG, a boutique Boutique A small investment firm specializing in offering specific, but limited services to a select number of individuals. Notes: These investment firms are the alternatives to large financial supermarkets. They provide a highly personalized environment for investing. executive search firm. She also brings extensive experience in life sciences executive recruiting from her time as a key member of the Life Sciences practice at Spencer Stuart. About Polaris Venture Partners A national venture capital firm with over $3 billion under management, Polaris invests in seed, early stage and growth equity businesses in the technology, life science, digital media, enertech and consumer sectors. Through a philosophy of lead investing and active, long-term partnering with entrepreneurs and management teams, Polaris has helped a number of companies achieve outstanding success. Among them are: Accordant Health Services health services Managed care The benefits covered under a health contract , Acusphere, Advanced Inhalation inhalation /in·ha·la·tion/ (in?hah-la´shun) 1. the drawing of air or other substances into the lungs.inhala´tional 2. the drawing of an aerosolized drug into the lungs with the breath. 3. Research (AIR), Akamai Technologies Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) is a company that provides a distributed computing platform for global Internet content and application delivery, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. , Allaire Corporation Allaire Corporation was a computer software company founded by Jeremy and JJ Allaire in Minnesota, later headquartered in Cambridge, then Newton, Massachusetts. It commenced operations in May of 1995, had its initial public offering on NASDAQ (trading as ALLR) in January 1999, and , Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NYSE: ALNY), a biopharmaceutical company, engages in the development and commercialization of therapeutic products based on RNA interference (RNAi) in the United States. , American Superconductor American Superconductor is a technology company based in Westborough, Massachusetts specializing in the design and manufacture of superconducting wires and power converters. It is listed on Nasdaq under the symbol AMSC. , Archivas, Aspect Medical Systems, Avici Systems, Centra Software, Classifieds2000, Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Cushcraft Corporation, deCODE genetics deCODE genetics, Inc. (Íslensk erfðagreining in Icelandic) NASDAQ: DCGN is a biopharmaceutical company based in Reykjavík, Iceland. The company was founded in 1996 to identify human genes associated with common diseases using population studies, and apply the , Exchange.com, GlycoFi, Matrics, Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Paradigm Genetics, Powersoft, Solidworks, and TransForm Pharmaceuticals. For more information, please see www.polarisventures.com. |
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