About
Executive Recruiter & Founder of Persistent Recruiting
Janka Stovall is the primary search executive with the ability to get the job done. She has over twenty plus years of highly specialized executive recruiting experience necessary to deliver optimal candidates that provide value right from the start.
Janka is engaging with clients in the Diagnostics, Medical device, Medical Products, Biotechnology, Life Sciences, Pharmaceutical, and Medical Distribution sectors.
She is recruiting based on principles of confidentiality, a high level of personal attention, and detailed communication resulting in long-lasting relationships with satisfied clients.
Prior to Persistent Recruiting, Janka served as a Principal / Healthcare Executive Recruiter at a search firm where she served as a primary search lead. She helped to build a successful Retained Search offering and developed a reputation in the talent acquisition market for high integrity & authenticity, transparency, tireless work ethic, persistence, and exceptional performance. She brought extensive experience and performance excellence across a broad spectrum of markets on a global basis.
She has placed executive positions across all lines of businesses and functional areas; marketing, sales, operations, finance, IT, clinical affairs, R&D, supply chain, QA & RA. Her primary experience is placing mid-management and top-management positions nationally and internationally. She has worked for a startup and big corporations, Private Equity owned as well as publicly traded companies.
CLIENTS SERVED:
Allurion Technologies, AMAG, Accelerate Diagnostics, Acell, Biokit / Werfen, Cepheid / Danaher, Cord Blood Registry, Counsyl, Candela Medical, Elekta, Generate Life Sciences, Given Imaging, Haemonetics, Harvard Bioscience, Konica Minolta Precision Medicine, Luminex (now part of A DiaSorin Company), Meridian Bioscience, MaxCyte, Metabolon, Mölnlycke, Ortho Clinical Diagnostics (now QuidelOrtho), Polymer Technology Systems, Sequenom, Verax Biomedical, and others.
Throughout her talent acquisition career, she has consistently exceeded her performance objectives for leading companies. She has developed creative and innovative talent acquisition strategies and effectively implemented them to deliver ‘best in class’ candidate talent to her clients.
While working for First Data as a Talent Acquisition Specialist, Janka was involved in the ‘Performance First” project for Central Europe. She has an extensive background in handling and resolving Human Resource issues.
Her passion for constant improvement brought her to the US from Slovakia in 2008. This new challenge validated her adaptability, resilience, work ethic, and ability to learn new markets & cultures quickly as well as heighten her professional expertise.
She joined an Atlanta-based IT Recruitment & Consulting firm that specializes in contingency searches. While at this firm, Janka was intimately involved in the success of their business through her identification, qualification, and representation of top IT talent which helped the company triple its placement rates.
Janka holds a Master’s degree in Social Sciences and has taken an advanced course in Human Resource Management. She is a passionate runner and loves to travel and learn about new cultures.
