About MCZ Align

Trust is everything

MCZ Align is a retained executive search firm working exclusively with VC and PE-backed healthcare companies. We place the commercial leaders, operators, and executives that investor-backed organizations need to build, scale, and execute. Every engagement is senior-level, relationship-driven, and run by a senior partner from kickoff to close.

Our Founder

Mark Czubachowski built his career at the intersection of healthcare, venture capital, and executive talent. Not by following a straight line, but by accumulating the kind of experience that only comes from working inside the market he now serves.

His first decade in executive search was spent placing leaders into life sciences and pharmaceutical companies: HEOR groups, commercial functions, data platforms selling into pharma. He learned early that the difference between a good search and a great one came down to structure. Knowing who every candidate was, where they stood, and what they needed to move. That discipline became a core part of how MCZ Align operates today.

What set Mark apart from most search professionals was a decision to step out of recruiting entirely and go operate. As VP of Strategic Partnerships at Hu-manity.co, a seed-stage health data startup, he built multi-stakeholder engagement across retail pharmacies, health systems, payers, foundations, and emerging care delivery models. He pitched venture capital. He navigated the complexity of a company trying to create an entirely new market. The lessons from that period were, by his own account, hard-won.

"Investor-backed companies don't need another search firm that collects a retainer and disappears. They need a partner who understands what a great operator looks like, moves at the speed of a capital event, and stays accountable long after the placement closes."

From there, Czubachowski moved to New Enterprise Ventures, where he built an executive search practice inside a business development-focused firm, placing co-founders, closing enterprise deals, and managing multiple active searches simultaneously. It is where his organizational instincts sharpened into a repeatable system.

MCZ Align is the firm that draws on all of it. Two decades of healthcare relationships. Operator experience inside a venture-backed company. A firsthand understanding of what PE and VC-backed organizations need from their leaders and what makes the wrong hire so costly.

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Meet The Team

Eric Hawthorne

Senior Search Partner

Jessica Fahey

Director of Strategic Partnerships

Jess Rancier-Floyd

Chief Marketing Officer

Meet The Team

Advisory Board Members

MCZ Align's Advisory Board brings together active operators, investors, and executives across healthcare technology, life sciences, and venture capital. Their market intelligence informs how we identify target companies, assess top talent, and shape the healthcare talent conversation.