Susan Macdonald, BA (Hons)
Managing Director; RSA Singapore

Susan joined RSA in 2005 as a Consultant in the UK and was promoted in 2006 to Sales & Marketing Practice Leader. Over the next three years, she undertook Global and pan-European searches in the sales and marketing function for a wide range of Life Sciences clients.

In 2009, Susan moved to Shanghai to set up RSA Foster Partners, a joint venture between RSA and Foster Partners in China. Having established this joint venture, she returned to RSA in Europe where she served as the firm’s UK General Management Practice Leader. In 2010, Susan returned to Asia as Managing Director of RSA Singapore, developing and delivering new and innovative recruitment solutions for clients in the APAC region. Over the last two years she has successfully completed global and regional Executive searches, filling ‘C’ level and APAC regional roles.

Susan is a member of RSA’s global management team.

A nursing graduate, Susan began her career as a Staff Nurse in Glasgow before joining the Pharmaceutical industry in 1988. Her 17 years in industry includes roles at Farmitalia Carlo Erba and Pharmacia (now Pfizer) and IVAX (now TEVA) in commercial sales, marketing, project management and business development roles that encompassed branded, generic and VMS products. During this time, Susan was a committee member of the UK Pharma Licensing Group and she maintains her strong links with the licensing community today.

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