Senior Human Resources professional with over 20 years experience as a “hands-on” leader in start up and established companies.  Specific experience in staffing, executive coaching, career counseling, employee relations, HR policy and program development, diversity awareness and working collaboratively within senior teams to optimize their human capital.  Strong communication skills and a style that is effective at all levels of the organization. 

Richard Hunter is a 20-year veteran of the Boston business and HR communities, where he has distinguished himself as a seasoned generalist with a balance of technical expertise, an OE orientation to human capital management and development, and legal acuity.  He has particular strengths in helping companies acquire and retain key talent, shift costs, and develop leaders for the future by measuring and rewarding performance, in conjunction with succession planning and individual development initiatives. Richard has held senior-management, executive, and in-house HR counsel roles in high technology, telecommunications, biotech, healthcare, and professional services companies including Atex Media Solutions, Comcast, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, and Harvard Community Health Plan.  He has also consulted to such companies as Genzyme Transgenics, Primedica Pharmaceuticals, The American Red Cross, and McKinsey & Company.

Engaging senior human resources professional with extensive experience in higher education providing translatable skills for the healthcare and biotech industries. Experience in all HR services. Outstanding relationship building skills with all levels of management and staff.  Creative thinker with experience in the change management necessitated by the current fiscal climate.  Extensive experience in translating business goals into organization initiatives.  Well honed labor relations skills as well as the ability to help organizations stay attuned to employee needs and concerns obviating the need for unionization.

Donald Purnell

Senior Human Resources executive with significant and successful experience in developing, integrating, and/or restructuring human resources organizations and general company business processes. A proven leader with refined expertise in organizational development, initiating and managing change, restructuring, and integration, through acquisition, merger, divestiture, IPO, and significant growth. Very solid strength and hands-on acumen in the core human resource functions are including; talent acquisition and retention, performance management and leadership development/succession planning. I excel at managing change and integration, coaching and counseling. I am a revolutionary thinker with intensity for analytical application and implementation.

Highly experienced operational Human Resources Executive with proven track record based on the achievement of strategic business goals through practical hands-on execution.  Bi-lingual and with an in depth professional knowledge gained from small to large size union, non-union, domestic and international pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, and specialty chemicals operations. Key competencies: