Karolina is the Founder and Managing Director of ExecMind.

She has been working in the recruitment industry for over 17 years and possesses significant experience in talent acquisition for senior scientific and C-level positions in the European market. In 2015, she started ExecMind and the company quickly has become a leader in scientific and executive recruitment in Poland for biotech, biopharma and MedTech industries.  The company is a member of internationally recognized Life Sciences clusters. 

Karolina holds a MA degree in sociology,  she continued her education by attending postgraduate studies in Human Resources, she has completed another one-year postgraduate course on Business in Biotechnology (Jagiellonian University joint with Jagiellonian Centre of Innovation, Krakow, Poland). Karolina also successfully completed international courses in drug discovery and development.

Karolina is actively involved in integrating the Life Science community in Poland and in Europe. As a member of the Life Science Cluster in Krakow, she supports and promotes cluster activities within biotech, pharma and Medtech communities on the international stage.

Michal Golabek is a Senior Researcher, responsible for the acquisition of world-class scientific talents. 

Michal graduated from AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków - a leading Polish Technical University - in biomedical engineering and continued his education with postgraduate studies in molecular biology.

He joined ExecMind in 2017, and since then developed great expertise in research and talent acquisition in scientific areas. He has attracted to the biotech and MedTech industry around 100 scientists from all over the world. 

For the last two years, he gained a lot of unique experience in Ai in medicine and healthcare recruitment supporting research institutes in attracting scientists in that field worldwide. 

Feel free to email Michal and discuss your career further opportunities:

michal.golabek@execmind.com

Joanna has been connected to Life Sciences since 2020, initially working for Klaster LifeScience Kraków and then, in early 2021, joining ExecMind as a Biotech Talent Researcher where she is discovering a fascinating world of scientists and biotech companies.
Joanna connects experienced scientists mainly from the molecular biology field with further career options in the industry and academic environment.
 
She has over ten years of experience in the tourism industry and non-profit sector.
She speaks Polish, English fluently, she also studied Slavic languages. She is a free spirit, fascinated by nature; she loves to learn new things and meet new people from various backgrounds and cultures.
Joanna is a professional Krakow City and Historical Museum Guide and Beskidy Mountain Guide who loves outdoors, low-budget traveling (visited 50+ countries on five continents), hiking in the mountains, and camping in remote areas.

Feel free to email Joanna to discuss new career options in the biotech world: joanna.wylon@execmind.com

Katarzyna holds a PhD degree from Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Department of Physics and Biophysics, where she developed antioxidant liposome carriers.

Katarzyna graduated with an MSc in biotechnology - Chemistry of Surfactants and the Dispersed Systems from the Wrocław University of Technology.
For two years, she worked at the Inter-Faculty Institute of Life Sciences at the University of Life Sciences of Wroclaw as an assistant to the scientific director, organizing scientific events and other research activities.

She spent several years in corporate companies working with tender procedures for health and biological services, and for last three years has gained experience as a recruiter working in the German market.

She is interested in biotechnology and the commercialization of scientific research results.
Katarzyna is a PN-EN ISO 9001:2001 quality management system representative, PN-EN ISO 9001:2001 internal auditor and PN-EN ISO 9011:2003 Internal HACCP auditor.
She spends her free time actively, preferably hiking the mountains, running, and cycling.