Company Profile

At Sanford Rose Associates, we enjoy a few competitive advantages.

First, there is the proprietary Sanford Rose Associates methodology – Dimensional Search® – which creates a unique three-dimensional profile that matches a candidate’s personal skill level to job requirements, past experience to future expectations and management style to corporate culture. The structure provided by this carefully constructed process makes Dimensional Search easy to present to clients, easy to incorporate into the actual recruiting process and easy to teach to recruiters.

Second, there is our history of excellence. The original Sanford Rose Associates office opened in 1959. Our first franchises were licensed in 1970. Since then, SRA International, the system’s parent company, has awarded a limited number of independently owned franchises each year. The relatively small nature of the SRA system helps ensure a high level of professionalism, performance and service that can best meet our clients' expectations.

Finally, each SRA office specializes in a particular industry or occupation, and the professionals in each office are experts in that field – often having spent a number of years on the front lines of their industry. Moreover, each franchise covers a broad geographic basis and is encouraged to develop its client base and recruit candidates on a nationwide or even global basis.

Organizations that excel in the new global marketplace deliver consistently superior products and services, setting the standards that others follow.

To do this, they need the kind of people at all levels who can make a difference in organizational performance - from executive row to the front lines. And when a critical member of the team leaves, or new positions of equal importance need to be created, you know how essential it is to find the very best talent.

Sandford Rose Associates has helped its client companies meet this challenge since 1959. Today, its more than sixty offices in the Americas, Asia and Europe find and attract high-potential executives, managers and professionals for critical position openings around the globe.

As always, top people must be painstakingly identified and carefully courted.

They are usually happily employed and rarely have their resumes in broad-scale circulation, on or off the Internet.

Nonetheless, being in high demand, they must be convinced that your opportunity stands out from the many others they receive.

SRA offices know that a new, highly competitive era in human capital acquisition has dawned - and are fully prepared to help your organization come out ahead.

Bio: Richard Carter
President and Chief Executive Officer

Rich Carter is President and Owner of Sanford Rose Associates - San Francisco, an executive search firm filling mid to senior-level positions within the medical devices/diagnostics, biotechnology and pharmaceutical segments of the worldwide life sciences industry. Founded in 1959, the Sanford Rose Associates ("SRA") organization serves the needs of corporate and institutional clients from over sixty worldwide offices.

In addition to his executive search expertise, Rich has over twenty years of general management, technical management and marketing/sales experience in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medical devices and diagnostics. He has held senior positions with multinational corporations, start-up companies and not-for-profit organizations.

After obtaining his doctorate in chemistry from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), he joined the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. He later moved to the private sector, serving in various management positions for DuPont Medical Products and Baxter Healthcare before joining Chiron Corporation as Director of its diagnostics business unit, which included business ventures with Johnson & Johnson and other global entities in the Far East.

Prior to assuming the position of President of SRA's office in greater San Francisco, Rich held senior management positions at a medical diagnostics subsidiary of Boehringer Mannheim (Roche) and at a local medical foundation. Having filled high-level healthcare positions both as a hiring manager and search professional, Rich brings to Sanford Rose Associates an intimate knowledge of the industry and a full appreciation of the added value that results from finding the "perfect fit" for a key position. He also understands the difference that a key placement can make to an organization.

Over the years, he has been a member of such professional and scientific organizations as the Medical Marketing Association, American Society for Cell Biology, Drug Information Association, Bay Area Biosciences Center, American Association for Clinical Chemistry, American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, National Association of Personnel Specialists as well as a sponsoring member of the Bioscience Forum. At the April 2002/2003/2004 SRA Annual Meetings, Rich was named "Owner of the Year". In addition to Owner of the Year, his office was named "Office of the Year" for all three years.