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Jennifer Borrer
Managing Director
Lausanne Switzerland
Get in TouchJennifer Borrer a Managing Director in WittKieffer’s Life Sciences Practice. Based in Switzerland, she serves Swiss, European and global clients across the Life Sciences spectrum, with a focus on Consumer Health, MedTech, and Biotech. Jennifer is experienced in delivering senior commercial and global operations leadership search across Europe, MEA, North and South America. Throughout her 20 years in senior executive talent management roles, Jennifer has been guided by strong values, integrity and ethics. She is a recognized professional who relates well to people at all levels and who brings structured leadership that builds bridges across cultures, functions, and stakeholders.
Jennifer joins WittKieffer from Borrer Executive Search, a boutique search firm she founded in 2010 leading cross-industry search, with mandates spanning 25 countries in a range of executive specializations including R&D, manufacturing, supply chain, procurement, logistics and distribution, and quality. Her clients include leading pharmaceutical, medical equipment, skin science, nutraceutical, and food production companies, listed multinationals, private equity-backed portfolio companies, non-profit and family-owned / founder-led businesses. Jennifer actively sits on the global DEI council of the Association of Executive Search & Leadership Consultants (AESC) to promote a world that is inclusive, diverse, equitable, and accessible for all.
Prior positions included Human Resources Director EMEA at Playground Real Estate (an Intrawest Company), where she led all dimensions of HR with a particular focus on talent acquisition and development. Prior to this, Jennifer was with Australia-based Hays PLC with oversight of finance executive search and growing the RPO business. She then relocated to France to lead a regional sales team of search consultants providing interim and permanent recruitment solutions for Hays clients. In her early career, she served for five years as an Institutional Equity Broker for a global diversified financial services firm in the UK (London) and Switzerland.
A native of Montreal, Jennifer holds Canadian, Swiss, and Australian citizenship and is fluent in French and English.
Education
Human Resources Staffing and Selection Certificate, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
Bachelor of Commerce (BCom), Corporate Finance, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada