Voice of the Client

Over the past 13 years we have retained Cary to fill several executive level positions for my organizations, including a Chief Financial Officer, Chief Technology Officer, EVP of Business Development and others. Her approach is outstanding. Not only is she adept at recruiting and assessing talent, but the time she takes to thoroughly understand the existing team’s chemistry and the corporate culture help to insure a solid, long term match. I find her highly personalized approach unique in the retained search field. She gets that there are many things that make a search successful, and she comes to the table as a true partner – one who is vested in the long-term success of the company in addition to the immediate placement. I value Cary’s input as a recruiter but more so as a strategic talent advisor. I strongly endorse Cary and look forward to partnering with her in the future.
-Bill Reece, Founder and CEO, Balanced Health Management, Inc.

“Cary is a thoughtful executive search partner. She is thorough and methodical in her approach to executive search without dragging out the process. She produced candidates for us from Day One, and everyone she presented was a good fit for the role because she took the time to get to know us – to really understand our business and the situational context. I would not hesitate to work with Cary again.”
-Dr. Derek Ellison, Chief Operating Officer, Eden Biodesign 

“I have known and worked with Cary for many years. She is smart, intuitive, and easy to work with, and most importantly, she has a mind of her own (she has told me when I was wrong) and a good sense of humor. When I needed to grow Cytel, I asked her to help us build out our team. The candidates she presented were of varied backgrounds, so that I had a real choice, and she was able to expertly assess all of them in terms of their experience, style and fit. She did this with a sense of urgency and timeliness that is exactly what I needed. Her recommendations have always been good; in every instance, they have worked.”
-Ranganath Nayak, Chief Executive Officer, Cytel, Inc.

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Cary Morrill is a Vice President with Cook Associates Executive Search. Located in the firm’s Boston office, Cary recruits senior management for multinational corporations as well as for the venture capital and private equity  communities. With more than 25 years of retained executive search experience, Cary has successfully completed assignments in the U.S., Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. She serves a diverse client base with a particular focus on life sciences and technology; her clients value her ability to attract and retain world-class talent as well as her insight, commitment and contribution to their growth and success. Cary’s focus also includes Board of Director search.

Prior to joining Cook Associates, Cary was Managing Partner of Barrack Hill Partners, a boutique, retained executive search and human resources consulting firm she co-founded in 2001. Her earlier search career includes senior positions with both multinational and boutique executive search firms, including Christian and Timbers (now CT Partners), OakBridge (a global search firm based in Tokyo, Japan), Executive Alliance and Chestnut Hill Partners.

She entered the search profession following a successful career in industry, serving as a Senior Consultant in Arthur D. Little’s information systems strategy practice and Software Industry Market Analyst with IDC. Cary earlier sold software for Distribution Management Systems.

Cary’s extracurricular activities reflect her passion for mentoring in the areas of strategy, sustainability and entrepreneurship. She is a mentor with MIT’s Venture Mentoring Service, Babson’s Center for Women’s Leadership Program and YouthCITIES, an eight-week boot camp teaching social entrepreneurship to middle and high school students. She also serves as a subject matter expert for Illinois Biotech (iBIO) in its PROPEL program for early-stage companies.

Cary is a board member of the New Art Center in Newton, MA and Second Chance Rescue in Washington, as well as an advisory board member of NEADS in Princeton, MA.

Cary is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and holds an MA from Columbia University.