At Hunton Executive, we spend a large amount of our time finding and developing extraordinary leaders for our clients. So, when it comes to senior leaders for our own business, we know what we want – and it’s the absolute best. That’s why we are delighted to have exceptional talent in our team and in our selected partners.
To effectively support our customers we partner with a portfolio of industry thought leaders. specialised consultants, and subject matter experts to deliver asymmetrical outcomes.
After 20 years of building successful workforces for healthcare companies, Vanessa Meikle has a deep understanding of the link between an organisation’s leadership and its performance. Vanessa studied psychology at university, and from there developed an interest in what makes leaders truly extraordinary. She’s since trained in organisational and professional career coaching and spent two decades working in executive search, recruitment and organisational consulting. She founded Hunton Executive in 2020 to help healthcare and life science companies hire, develop and retain the best leaders. She’s also a member of the AICD and an active board member with Axis Health Co and the Entrepreneurial Women in Health Networking group.
During her 20 years of working in senior and executive level global healthcare recruitment, Anna has developed a strong grasp of the needs of both candidates and clients. Her experience spans working in both an internal and external capacity, which has given her a firm understanding of how organisations and business processes work. She uses her degree in psychology and qualifications in coaching to make meaningful assessments of candidates, and to take a strategic, proactive approach to ensuring the best outcomes for clients. Anna’s well-rounded input forms a key part of Hunton Executive’s mission to help healthcare companies in 15 countries to hire, develop and retain the best leaders.
Anthea Gribbin specialises in executive search and workforce strategy. She helps healthcare organisations, hospitals, PE-backed companies, charities, medical institutions, and government agencies find top-tier leadership talent. Her work spans Australia, Japan, APAC, and the Middle East.
With over 20 years of experience, Anthea is an expert in hiring for regulated sectors like healthcare, mental health, pharmaceuticals, and medtech. She previously worked as an HR Director in the UK healthcare industry, giving her deep insight into leadership challenges. She holds a degree in Management (Leadership) and a Postgraduate CIPD qualification in HR.
Anthea takes a hands-on approach. She builds strong recruitment functions, improves hiring strategies, and aligns talent with business goals. Whether scaling a PE-backed healthcare company, strengthening a hospital’s leadership team, or finding C-suite executives to drive innovation, she delivers the right leaders for long-term success.
Monica Moran is a seasoned marketer with 13 years of experience helping businesses stand out in competitive markets. She has spent her career in small, agile teams, making her hands-on, proactive, and strategic. At Hunton Executive, she ensures that senior executives in life sciences can clearly see the value of working with a specialist executive search firm.
Monica’s career began as a marketing generalist, mastering the all the tactical basics —writing sales copy, managing events, designing collateral, running social media, and producing content. As she moved into leadership roles, she focused on high-level marketing strategy, coaching teams, and driving business growth.
Monica’s marketing philosophy is simple: strategy first, tactics second. She believes great marketing starts with a deep understanding of segmentation, targeting, and positioning. That’s why she spends time talking directly to clients and candidates, gathering insights that shape Hunton Executive’s strategy. By aligning marketing with real customer needs, she makes it easy for companies to see why Hunton is the right choice over other search firms, recruitment agencies, or in-house hiring teams.
Josianne Robb is a senior executive leader with a 30-year international career leading global technical and commercial teams towards design, development, commercialization, and adoption of digital solutions. With unique leadership and corporate experience encompassing leadership development, business development and partnering, transformation and change in Europe and Asia, across several industries, Josianne has both breadth and depth of executive experience to coach leaders to deliver immediate results. Josianne is an experienced board director, c-suite executive, NLP master practitioner, executive coach, and entrepreneur. She has extensive global experience transforming people, perspective, and performance by helping people and organizations adapt and thrive in a rapidly changing environment.
Axis Health Co – a powerhouse of industry experts, each bringing deep domain knowledge and leadership experience including our own CEO, Vanessa Meikle.
Strategic advisory, commercial partnerships and interim leadership—designed to tackle the unique challenges at every stage of a product’s lifecycle in the Australian market.
Axis Health Co. is a hands-on advisory firm providing strategic consulting and commercial expertise to life sciences and healthcare organisations. They tackle business-critical challenges across the product life cycle, ensuring success in the Australian market.
Axis Health Co partner with pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical technology and medical device organisations facing diverse challenges in the Australian market.
Strategic Leadership & Advisory: Board and executive-level guidance backed by deep industry expertise to help organisations navigate complex business challenges. Offering scalable and adaptable executive leadership for short- or long-term sponsorship in the Australian market.
Commercialisation: Providing expertise to organisations in defining, refining, and executing their business strategies, navigating, and solving business critical issues to drive commercial outcomes.
Strategic Partnership: Brokering strategic partnerships to expand market reach and accelerate patient access to critical treatments.
Axis Health Co’s extensive industry experience and deep understanding of the health sector enables them to develop holistic and innovative solutions that cater to the unique needs of its clients.
Specialistion in Psychometric Assessments, Transition Onboarding Coaching, Leadership Development and Performance Coaching
Andrea Croft is an organisational psychologist who is responsible for Hunton Executive’s assessments and onboarding. Andrea is a business psychologist with extensive experience applying psychological principles to improve individual, team and organisational growth and performance. She partners with leaders and People & Culture professionals to enhance their organisation’s leadership capabilities, improve team dynamics, and create high-performance cultures. She brings a wealth of experience in assessment, coaching and leadership development gained in the Health Care and Life Sciences industry. She has worked across the Asia Pacific region, as well as in the UK and the US.
Global Access for only $398 per year through Hunton Executive (normally $498)
A year of virtual global events, masterclasses, book club events and on-demand learning
Growth Faculty brings together the people, the thinking, the tools, and the sharing of ideas to grow teams and businesses. It is a place to access brilliant ideas for inspired leadership through regular learning webinars and events. Through Growth faculty you get access to the world’s brightest minds, business-critical topics, and proven frameworks, equipping leaders with the mindset and skillset for now and the future of work.
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