Michelle Garland

Founder & CEO

2021 - Current

Soul Search is an executive recruitment platform whose mission is to help the best and brightest from across all industries recognize their untapped potential as innovators in healthcare. The goal of our entire body of work is to ensure all people have access to the best, most modern care and tools to improve the quality of their health. That means building the emerging health tech companies that become the breakaway successes of this generation. To be successful, our goal is to connect wholeheartedly to understand motivations and visions among three constituencies: funders, entrepreneurs and executive leaders. In addition to Search, we will also work the process in reverse — creating and funding — giving the top 10 percent of executives from tech and healthcare opportunities that will change their lives and the lives of countless others. Our offerings include: Retained executive search Incubation Partnership Collaborative Foundership In our short history, we have worked with investors such as Define, Bessemer, General Catalyst, Oak HCIT, GV, Andreesen Horowitz, Accel, Summit Partners, THL and Pinta Capital Partners. Sample clients include: Folx, Headway, Qventus, Groups Recover Together and Equip. My headhunting colleagues and I specialize in payor, provider and employer models; for CEO, COO, Product and GTM (President, CRO, CMO, CS).

Partner

2022

In addition to being CEO at Soul Search Partners, Michelle is a Partner at AlleyCorp. AlleyCorp is a NY-focused investment firm and incubator. We deploy ~$600M into early stage founders. To date, AlleyCorp has founded and incubated some of the most influential companies in New York City (e.g., Business Insider, MongoDB - NASDAQ: MDB, Gilt Groupe, Zola, Nomad Health, Pearl Health, Groups Recover Together and more), creating 3000+ jobs, raising $2B+. In our model, we make two kinds of investments: those where we invest very early as the first seed investors and those we incubate. On the incubation side, AlleyCorp originates the idea, hires the team, funds the initial 6-12 months, launches the company, and builds the team to lead the company forward.

Advisor

2021

Reverence is a technology company setting a new standard for clinically effective and financially sustainable home care.

Managing Partner

2003 - 2021

Daversa Partners is the leading headhunting firm in North America. Michelle joined Daversa as employee #7 in 2003 and built one of the top 3 practices in Healthtech. Michelle’s work is reflected in the most prominent leadership teams in the health ecosystem at every stage of growth, including Accretive Health (R1), Accolade, Teladoc, One Medical, Oscar Health, Change, Health Catalyst, Collective Health, Olive, Commure, Transcarent, Pearl Health, Genalyte, Qventus, Doctors on Demand, eviCore, Verana & PathAI.

Group Director Digital Advertising Sales

2002 - 2002

General Manager, Citysearch.com

2001 - 2001

Ticketmaster Online - CitySearch (Part of IAC)

Managing Director

1991 - 2000

Roles at The Wall Street Journal in the United States and International divisions.

Account Executive

1990 - 1991