About the founder

Christian Rados.

Biotech Executive Headhunter since 2011.

Founder of Rados Recruiting. Boutique, solo, founder-led from Munich. Permanent C-level placements in under 60 days. Interim in six. Host of the Willing to Win podcast.

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The firm

Biotech leadership, since 2011.

Christian Rados is a biotech headhunter. Has been since 2011. Long enough to know who delivers, who pretends, and who is one board meeting away from being available. In 2020 he founded Rados Recruiting in Munich. Boutique. Solo. On purpose.

The thesis is simple. Global search firms sell process: a partner pitches the role, an associate runs the search, a researcher builds the longlist, three months later you get a shortlist. Christian Rados sells judgement. One person owns the mandate from briefing to placement. No account managers. No handoffs. No briefs being forwarded down a chain. You work with the headhunter, not with a sales team.

Christian Rados places CEOs, CFOs, CSOs, CBOs, CCOs, Chief Medical Officers and Chief Technical Officers for venture-backed and listed biotech. Permanent, interim, fractional. Munich, Vienna, Basel, Berlin, Copenhagen, Cambridge, Ghent, Budapest, Helsinki, Boston, New York. Seed through commercial-stage.

Credibility

Built on fifteen years of placing the leaders below the C-suite.

Christian Rados has been in life sciences executive search since 2011. Multiple Top Performer recognition at Hays, 2011 to 2014, for outstanding sales and recruitment performance. Founded Rados Recruiting in Munich in 2020, in 2022 changed into a limited company as Rados Recruiting GmbH

Across the career so far: over one thousand placements in life sciences, the majority at Director and VP level, permanent and interim. Since founding Rados Recruiting, the focus has sharpened. Ninety percent biotech, predominantly Director, VP, and growing C-suite mandate density. The Directors and VPs placed since 2011 are now becoming today's Chief Medical Officers, Chief Financial Officers, and Chief Executive Officers. That is not a coincidence. That is the network.

What's different

What Christian Rados does differently.

Solo founder

Not a side effect. A design choice.

Rados Recruiting is not a thirty-person agency. Christian leads every mandate personally, from briefing to placement. Clients work directly with the person who owns the outcome, not with an account manager forwarding briefs to junior researchers. Sharper judgement. Faster decisions. Full accountability.

AI as leverage

Operational depth without organisational drag.

The boutique model only scales when technology compensates for headcount. Christian uses modern AI tooling for the desk work: research and market mapping. It does not contact candidates and it does not make the hiring call. Every approach is personal, every search confidential. No automated outreach, no data leaving the mandate. The leverage is in the mapping, which frees Christian's time for the part clients actually pay for: selection, judgement, chemistry.

Speed

Placement measured in days, not quarters.

Global search firms take four to six months to fill a C-level role. Christian closes interim mandates in six days and permanent searches in less than 60 days. Speed is not a side effect. It is the structural advantage of a model built without organisational drag, with focus on decision-making quality.

Willing to Win: Biotech Leaders Against All Odds. Podcast hosted by Christian Rados

Willing to Win Podcast

Why the podcast exists.

Willing to Win: Biotech Leaders Against All Odds is a long-form podcast featuring the founders and executives who have built biotech companies through real adversity: failed trials, board fights, near-bankruptcy, regulatory setbacks, personal cost. Not the highlight reel. The willingness.

For more than a decade, Christian had conversations with the biotech community about roles, candidates, mandates, pains, struggles and hopes. The gap between what he was already doing for his community and what he could be doing grew over the years. The podcast is one answer to that gap.

The title is deliberate. Willing to Win is not about winning. It is about deciding to accept the adversity, uncertain of a win. The willingness is what makes the story.

The person behind the firm

Who is Christian Rados, beyond the firm?

Christian Rados surfing at O2 SurfTown Munich

Christian lives in Munich with his family, and Joker the Labradoodle. Outside the office, life is built around surfing, the gym, and the slow but steady work of personal development, three things that all reward patience and consistency, which is more or less what executive search rewards too.

Espresso is not optional. And neither is a very good meal. Christian believes both decide the quality of a day, and that anyone who rushes past those moments has misread the assignment.

He describes himself as headhunter, biotech personality, surfer, dad, gym rat, dog owner, and serious espresso person. The plural is not a problem to solve. It is the operating model. The boutique works because the founder is fully present in every part of it.

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