Helga Long is a Managing Partner of CTPartners, the premier-quality executive search firm committed to performance, quality and results. She provides senior executive search services to American, European and Japanese corporations in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device business sectors. Helga also works with venture capital firms to identify top-tier leadership for their life sciences portfolio companies. The geographic scope of her recruiting activities serves clients worldwide, spanning North America, South America, Europe and Asia.
Having begun her career in Consumer Products marketing, after ten years she created her own search consultancy. The firm grew to include the Consumer Products, Retail, Advertising, Industrial, Transportation and Life Sciences industries. In 2000, Helga directed her business exclusively to the Life Sciences sector, and founded H.M. Long Global Healthcare, serving a multi-national, cross cultural client base. In 2005, her firm merged with CTPartners.
Helga’s highly acclaimed philosophy for success in executive search includes the important premise that each search is unique, even within the same organization. She has built an extraordinary network of senior executive relationships with clients and their executive teams and has provided consulting services for organization development and succession planning strategies. She was selected as one of "North America’s Top 250 Executive Recruiters" by John Sibbald and is acknowledged in his book, The Career Makers.
Originally from Germany and married to the German artist, Ernst Lurker, Helga is one of the founders of the International Center for Missing and Exploited Children and has been active on the Board since its inception in 1998. She has also served as Vice Chairman of the Pasteur Foundation’s Annual Gala to benefit medical research, is a past Board member of the New York City Chapter of the American Heart Association, and is an active member of the Women’s Foreign Policy Group. Helga was educated at El Camino College and UCLA.