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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Flying in from both coasts to support Victoria in accepting her award were SciVida leaders and mentors Kevin Barnett and Jeff Liepman, Co-founders and Managing Partners, Kiely Flanigan, Chief People Officer, Rachel Clare, Partner, and Ben Maimon, Principal.

In her acceptance remarks, Victoria noted, “As a Mexican, this award feels like a celebration of diversity, inclusion, and support within the consulting industry. I am proud to be part of a community that values the power of diverse voices and experiences.”

Winning in the Future Leader category, Victoria offers sage advice to female consultants just beginning their career: “Understand what you bring to the table. What makes you, you? Identify your unique skills and strengths and leverage them in your projects. Your unique strengths will add significant value to the impact of your project work.”

Consulting Magazine’s Future Leader category honors those women whose leadership is exhibited above the call of specified rank or normal expectations of one’s position and displays the promise of increased responsibility and results to benefit the organization and future peers.

Victoria added, “This recognition—Future Woman Leader—instills in me an enormous sense of responsibility to continue advocating for and mentoring young female professionals, encouraging them to work hard, believe in their talents, and break barriers.”

Victoria attributes her success in consulting in part to advice she received from her parents as a young child to try new things and step out of her comfort zone, inspiring her to pursue ambitious goals, embrace failure as a learning opportunity, and remain determined to seize opportunities. “In consulting as in life, taking calculated risks and learning from setbacks are essential for innovation, growth, and success,” she said.

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The newest member of the senior leadership team, Sean brings both breadth and depth of experience across the full gamut of life sciences consulting, from project oversight and delivery to business development to client account management and trusted advisor relationship building with biopharma companies of all sizes.

Sean’s expertise spans commercial strategy, pricing and market access, and business development, and while he is well-versed in a wide array of client business needs, key project types include portfolio strategy, competitive differentiation, demand assessments, positioning and creative campaign testing, US and ex-US pricing and contracting strategy, revenue forecasting, mergers and acquisitions transaction support, and outsourcing, among others.

Sean began his career in the laboratory conducting bench research in molecular and cellular biology before completing his MBA and pivoting to the business world. On top of working in life sciences consulting for nearly 15 years, Sean spent three additional years at a leading biotech company in a market planning role, so Sean brings a unique perspective to client engagements having worked on both sides as well as in the science itself.

Sean is known for building strong teams from the ground up, with deep involvement in talent strategy and recruiting as well as in training consultants in key consulting tools and methodologies for strategic analysis, qualitative and quantitative market research, revenue forecast modeling, and data analytics.

Sean earned a bachelor of science in biology and a bachelor of arts in history, both with honors, from the University of Texas at Austin and his MBA with concentrations in both finance and strategy from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

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The Women Leader awards honor the achievements and leadership of remarkable women in the consulting industry impacting the profession across six categories: DEI Champion, ESG Champion, Excellence in Client Service, Excellence in Leadership, Future Leader, Mentor of the Year, and Lifetime Achievement.

Winning the award in the category of Future Leader, Victoria has had an enduring impact on growing SciVida’s west coast business and building high-performing teams. Over the past year in particular, Victoria has become a go-to resource on many topics, and her fluency in multiple languages has positioned her as a pivotal team member in global engagements. Additionally, Victoria has played an instrumental role in the onboarding and professional development of new hires and summer interns, where she has demonstrated exceptional mentorship skills by sharing her knowledge and inspiring new team members as they advance their core consulting skills.

Victoria earned a master’s degree in biotechnology, specializing in innovation and entrepreneurship, from Columbia University, where she was a Fulbright scholar. Prior to entering consulting, Victoria gained laboratory experience, including work at Harvard–MIT Health Sciences and Technology, affording her a unique perspective that she leverages in her work at SciVida.

Victoria will accept this award at the upcoming ALM Consulting Magazine awards gala in New York this November.

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Traveling in from around the country to celebrate with Jeff at the event were colleagues Ben Maimon, Principal, Rachel Clare, Partner, Kiely Flanigan, Chief People Officer, and Kevin Barnett, SciVida Co-founder and Managing Partner.

In his remarks upon accepting his award, Jeff began with a focus on the people supporting him—first turning to his business partner, Kevin, who believed in him from the day he recruited him to a prior firm well over a decade ago, so much so that they later went on to co-found SciVida together. Jeff next acknowledged Kiely as SciVida’s fierce and fearless people leader who inspires our team on a daily basis to bring their best selves to work. He went on to also thank Ben and Rachel, senior leaders who exemplify the firm’s commitment to excellence, client delight, and development of all team members.

On the topic of leadership, Jeff said, “It’s my strong and firm belief that the highest calling of a leader is to serve others and to create a positive impact in doing so. We’re so privileged in our world of consulting to be able to serve others on a daily basis, whether that be our clients, helping them with their careers and their organizations, our team members, coaching, leading, and supporting them, or patients.”

Jeff’s inclusion of patients is especially meaningful to both him and the broader team at SciVida and is a reference to SciVida’s purpose: to help bring science to life so that patients get access to life-saving therapies and our world is a healthier place.

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