Rachel joined SciVida as an Associate Principal and quickly distinguished herself as a strategic thinker, collaborative leader, and key contributor to the firm’s achievements. Her rapid progression from Associate Principal to Principal to Partner and now Managing Partner over the last several years demonstrates her deep impact, commitment to excellence, and ability to drive meaningful results for her clients and for the firm.

Since becoming a Partner, Rachel has continued to elevate her leadership, expanding her influence across client engagements, internal initiatives, and the broader SciVida community. She has developed strong, long‑standing relationships with clients across the life sciences industry, serving as a trusted advisor known for her insight, partnership, and ability to guide organizations through complex challenges.

Rachel has also played an integral role in building SciVida’s culture. She is deeply invested in developing talent—providing thoughtful coaching, mentorship, and feedback—and consistently sets a high bar for quality and accountability. Colleagues describe her as resilient, positive, and inspiring, bringing energy and a solutions‑oriented mindset to even the most demanding situations.

“Rachel embodies SciVida’s core values and has been instrumental in shaping who we are as a firm,” said Kevin Barnett, Co-Founder and CEO. “Her leadership, strategic vision, and dedication to our people will serve the firm well as she takes on her new role as Managing Partner. We are thrilled to see Rachel’s story continue to unfold in this next chapter.”

As Managing Partner, Rachel will help guide SciVida’s strategic direction, strengthen client partnerships, and continue to shape company culture as the firm expands.

“SciVida has been an incredible place to build a career, and I’m honored to step into this role,” Rachel said. “I’m excited to continue working alongside our talented team to deliver exceptional impact for our clients and to support the next generation of leaders at the firm.”

This promotion underscores SciVida’s commitment to developing leaders and reflects the firm’s ongoing investment in both its people and the clients they serve.

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Upon joining the firm five years ago as a Senior Consultant, Julia Hoina quickly established herself as a creative problem-solver and an expert across multiple analytical methodologies who sets an extremely high bar for excellence on her projects. Within a year she was promoted to Associate Principal, a role she readily mastered.

After being promoted to Principal in 2023, Julia shined as she developed into a strong leader who delivers distinctive value to the firm and to her clients. Clients consistently turn to Julia to tackle some of their most complex challenges, earning her trusted advisor status.

Ben Maimon, PhD, joined SciVida three years ago as a Principal and has been a trailblazer in building out the firm’s west coast business. He is a gifted consultant with an exceptional knowledge base in both consulting methodologies and biomedical engineering, giving him a unique perspective on the science underlying his clients’ business needs. Since joining the firm, Ben has steadily strengthened both his business development and leadership skills and played a key role in establishing and building the firm’s San Francisco office. Ben is a respected thought partner with an exceptionally positive reputation with clients.

Both Julia and Ben are known for superior client service, strong analytical rigor, and a tireless work ethic. They are also dedicated to helping others grow in their own careers, helping to build the next cohort of SciVida leaders. The entire team appreciates all that they do in support of SciVida’s mission.

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Consulting Magazine launched the Rising Star award program in 2007 to identify and recognize outstanding young professionals in the industry, and in 2026 the publication revamped the categories of recognition to focus on the ways these up-and-coming leaders are already changing how the consulting profession operates.

Nathan has been a foundational force in establishing and sustaining the culture, community, and success of the firm’s San Francisco office and broader west coast presence. Nathan is SciVida’s veteran San Francisco office team member, having joined the company before it opened its first physical location in the Bay Area. Nathan plays a central role in shaping the employee experience, particularly for new hires.

His approachability, reliability, and high standards set the tone for how work gets done and how people show up for one another in the San Francisco office. This is evident in the quality work he develops and delivers to our clients and how he collaborates with others. Nathan’s commitment to excellence is second-to-none and has played a critical role in the long-standing success he has had in delighting key SciVida clients, earning particularly high client satisfaction scores on his projects. Through his leadership, mentorship, and long-standing contributions, he has helped build a strong, cohesive office culture that continues to endure and scale as SciVida expands.

Nathan earned a bachelor of science in biomedical engineering and health sciences from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) and an MBA with a healthcare focus from UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School. Known for his analytical rigor, collaborative spirit, and commitment to helping clients and colleagues alike succeed, Nathan combines technical depth with strategic perspective, making him a trusted partner in navigating complex challenges across the life sciences landscape.

Nathan will formally accept this award at the upcoming Consulting Magazine Rising Stars 2026 ceremony and reception in Chicago on April 16, 2026.

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SciVida was also once again named to the prestigious Vault Consulting 50 for 2026, Vault’s signature list of the best consulting firms in North America irrespective of size.

Impressively, SciVida climbed to the top spot among North American consulting firms of all sizes in the areas of firm leadership and overall business outlook, with #1 rankings in both. SciVida ranked highly in several additional areas, including informal training and mentoring (#3), promotion policies (#3), relationships with supervisors (#4), interaction with clients (#6), level of challenge (#8), formal training (#9), innovation (#9), and satisfaction (#9) among the hundreds of firms participating in the survey.

Because the Vault rankings are based on thousands of employee surveys from hundreds of consultancies and reflect how current team members feel about their employers as a place to work, SciVida is particularly pleased with its ranking in the top 10 among firms of all sizes for satisfaction. Employee satisfaction is as important to firm leaders as client delight. SciVida measures employee satisfaction every month through quantitative and qualitative feedback from the team, shares the metrics and results with the entire workforce, listens to their input, and makes adjustments accordingly.

SciVida leadership efforts are strongly focused on delivering on the firm’s core values, investing in the development and success of employees, and offering solutions that address clients’ pressing business needs, and the Vault survey results demonstrate these efforts have been instrumental in the success and growth of the company over the past year. As an example of how these priorities take shape, the firm devoted an entire session to values and beliefs at the 2025 year-end strategic planning meeting that brought the full SciVida team to Raleigh in December. Breakout groups identified ways SciVida values and beliefs are already being incorporated and where there are gaps, brainstormed how to fill the gaps, and prioritized efforts based on their impact for both employees and candidates.

In addition to employee satisfaction, firm culture is also a differentiator for SciVida. SciVida’s tightknit team and culture of feedback where employees are remarkably invested in helping others to develop and succeed is uncommon, even coveted, in the industry. Many of the areas measured in the Vault survey in which SciVida ranked highly reflect key elements that contribute to SciVida’s extraordinary culture, such as informal training and mentorship, relationships with supervisors, innovation, formal training, and selectivity. A listing of SciVida’s 2026 top-10 rankings is included below, while additional rankings, Vault’s verdict, employee reviews, staff profiles, and more can be found under SciVida’s Vault profile at https://vault.com/company-profiles/management-strategy/scivida.

SciVida’s Vault 2026 Highlights

SciVida’s Vault 2026 Top 10 Details

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Joining Chris to cheer him on were SciVida leaders and mentors Jeff Liepman, Co-founder and Managing Partner, Kate Jara, Vice President of People and Talent, and Julia Hoina, Principal.

Being recognized in the category of Excellence in Client Service, Chris attributes his success, in part, to his ability to relate to others. “I take great pride in being able to create meaningful connections with people. I always aim to cultivate a supportive, collegial, and enjoyable dynamic on my teams, and I believe that only comes from espousing those views personally,” he said. Chris continued, “I work hard to ensure I am someone my clients want to work with, not only because they know I will do everything I can to ensure the success of an engagement, but also because they know I will bring my genuine self to our interactions.”

In his remarks upon accepting his award, Chris said, “There is nothing I find more professionally gratifying than seeing the switch flip from being viewed as a client’s ‘vendor’ to being perceived as a trusted advisor and thought partner.” He continued, “We don’t get to that point by blindly agreeing with clients or always having the right answer. We get there by being honest, being present, and being human.” Part of that process is challenging clients’ ingoing perceptions and infusing fresh perspectives. Importantly, achieving trusted advisor status with clients also requires being accountable for the challenges they face.

Consulting Magazine has been identifying and honoring top consultants every year for the past two and a half decades, receiving nominations and evaluating the accomplishments of hundreds of distinguished practitioners each year.

Along with excellence in client service, additional categories for 2025 Top Consultant awards included excellence in cybersecurity and data privacy, excellence in digital transformation, excellence in environmental and social governance, excellence in leadership, excellence in regulation and compliance, industry innovators, technology innovators, and lifetime achievement award.

For more information, see the Consulting Magazine story.

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Jonathan is a proven leader in life sciences consulting, bringing a wealth of experience from working with clients across a variety of pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and digital therapeutics companies for more than two decades and skillfully helping them navigate complex dynamics in rapidly changing markets. He is an expert in market access and commercial strategy and has particular capabilities in rare disease drug pricing, digital therapeutics, and oncology.

Jonathan has co-authored articles published in peer-reviewed and industry publications, including Journal of Clinical Pathways, PharmaVOICE, and In Vivo. He has also been a speaker at conferences such as DTx West, DTx East, and the European Pricing Forum.

Jonathan began his business career in consulting before pursuing his MBA. After completing his degree, he moved into life sciences at a leading biopharmaceutical company where he managed activities across business development and corporate strategy. He then pivoted back to consulting and over the past 20 years has built trusted advisor relationships with clients at life science organizations of all sizes. Jonathan also has a knack for cultivating cohesive teams and helping consultants develop professionally, talents that come at a pivotal time in the evolution of the firm’s Boston office.

Jonathan earned bachelor of arts degrees in both economics and geology from Dartmouth College and his MBA from Harvard Business School.

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A rising leader in the life sciences consulting industry, Chris has established a proven track record as a sought-after project manager, career mentor, and organizational leader by empowering and supporting team members across the firm. He navigates seamlessly between details and the bigger picture, demonstrating subject matter expertise, presence, and gravitas with clients, and has spent the last several years building trusted advisor relationships with them. For these accolades and more, Chris is being recognized in the Top Consultant award category of Excellence in Client Service.

As a testament to this recognition, Chris’s clients have described him as highly engaged, collaborative, and strategic, as well as unflappable and a pure joy—all actual words they have used when submitting direct qualitative feedback through SciVida’s formal client satisfaction survey program. Chris’s numbers tell the same story, with exceptionally high ratings across all quantitative measures as well.

In addition to his client work, Chris has made integral contributions to SciVida’s growth, fostering a collaborative, engaging, and fun office culture and spearheading numerous internal initiatives. Chris has a unique ability to create meaningful connections with people, from developing deep, trusting relationships with clients, to coaching and mentoring team members, to attracting top talent through earnest and impassioned conversations with candidates. Whether he is wearing his client services hat, staff development hat, or his recruiting hat, Chris is the consummate “Top Consultant.”

Chris pivoted to consulting immediately following completion of his doctoral program in chemistry at Northwestern University, where he also completed an intensive program at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management that culminated in a certificate in management for scientists and engineers. For Chris, incremental discoveries in the laboratory were exciting but what motivates him on a daily basis is being able to see tangible impacts of scientific research on peoples’ lives. Working in life sciences consulting with an elite team of like-minded individuals who share in this enthusiasm and at the forefront of innovation helping clients solve tough challenges bridges that gap for him.

For additional information, see these Consulting Magazine articles:

• Consulting Magazine’s 2025 Top Consultant Honorees
• Consulting Magazine’s Formal Announcement

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Flying in from San Francisco and Raleigh to honor Ben and cheer him on in accepting his award were SciVida Co-founders and Managing Partners Jeff Liepman and Kevin Barnett, Partner Sean O’Malley, and fellow Principal Julia Hoina, also a long-time friend.

Receiving his award in the category of “Excellence in Client Service,” Ben has a natural aptitude for managing projects, specifically working on tight deadlines and sweating the details, while also continuing to think about the big picture and pulling up to a “so what” for his clients. Ben truly works tirelessly in partnering with clients to ensure their success on each and every engagement.

In his acceptance speech, Ben explained that being a consultant requires being a master of crafts. “Like journalists, we seek facts but report stories. Like emergency responders, we remain collected and professional in high stakes, time-constrained situations. Like accountants, we crunch the numbers. And like artists, we make visually compelling material.” But unlike many of these professions, Ben pointed out, consultants operate behind the scenes. A consultant’s success is intrinsically tied to the client’s success, and good consultants understand and embrace this.

Ben concluded his remarks with heartfelt gratitude for his colleagues and mentors who inspire him to excel and who have helped cultivate his enthusiasm for problem-solving into generating meaningful impact for clients, the broader SciVida team for pushing the limits of what consulting is capable of achieving, and his wife and family for accommodating the often unpredictability of his profession.

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SciVida was also named once again to the prestigious Vault Consulting 50 for 2025, Vault’s signature list of the best consulting firms in North America irrespective of size.

Notably, SciVida also ranked among the TOP 3 across all firms in several areas, including firm leadership, overall business outlook, work-life balance, and informal training and mentoring, and in the TOP 5 for firm culture, formal training, selectivity, promotion policy, satisfaction, interaction with clients, and relationships with supervisors. SciVida also earned high rankings in the Vault diversity categories for women and race/ethnicity.

SciVida is proud of the firm’s climb in rankings in light of being a relatively nascent firm and having only begun participating in the Vault survey with the 2023 rankings when SciVida debuted at #11. The firm jumped to #5 in 2024 and has now hit the top 3 in 2025. The firm stays equally focused on its people as its clients and makes a concerted effort to establish an extraordinary culture for its world-class team.

The Vault rankings are based on thousands of employee surveys from hundreds of consulting firms and reflect how current team members feel about their employers as a place to work. As such, SciVida is particularly pleased to be among the top 5 for firm culture. Culture is a high priority for the firm and team members alike. At SciVida’s 2024 year-end strategic planning meeting, for example, the firm devoted an entire session to culture and learning and development, focusing on the elements to retain and those to build over the next several years as the firm grows. In the area of culture, all breakout groups, independently of each another, identified several of the same elements that are central to what makes SciVida “SciVida”: transparency, commitment to excellence, meritocracy, diversity, and fun.

Many of the areas measured in the Vault survey in which SciVida ranked very highly reflect key elements that make the firm’s culture remarkable, such as training, work-life balance, promotion policies, selectivity, and relationships with supervisors. See below for a listing of SciVida’s 2025 top-10 rankings. Additional rankings, Vault’s verdict, employee reviews, staff profiles, and more can be found under SciVida’s Vault profile at https://vault.com/company-profiles/management-strategy/scivida.

SciVida’s Vault 2025 Highlights

SciVida’s Vault 2025 Top 10 Details

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The Rising Star awards honor talented and innovative consultants who are redefining the consulting profession in impactful ways. Winning the award in the category of Excellence in Client Service, Ben exemplifies what it means to delight clients. His knowledge and expertise in the pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, and life sciences supply industries, his project execution skills, and his ability to speak with and win over any client audience are key contributors to his selection for this recognition.

Clients consistently report being extremely satisfied with the projects Ben leads, no doubt due to his knack for going deep on subject matter, sweating the details while always keeping the big picture in mind, and pulling out the “so what” for the client organization to ensure they are well equipped to make critical business decisions. A commitment to excellence is one of SciVida’s core values, and Ben likewise holds a high standard for deliverable quality, ensuring that information shared with clients is accurate, consistent, well thought out, and presented in an easily digestible fashion. He sets a great example for others, providing clear guidance to his teams on objectives, approach, and expected outcome(s).

Ben holds a doctorate in medical engineering and medical physics from the joint Massachusetts Institute of Technology–Harvard University program in Health Sciences and Technology and a bachelor of science in engineering (BSE) from Duke University in mechanical and biomedical engineering.

Ben will accept this award at the upcoming ALM Consulting Magazine awards ceremony and reception in Chicago on April 3, 2025.

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