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Spencer Stuart welcomes Eriona Gjinukaj to the firm’s Healthcare Practice

September 2026
Eriona Gjinukaj
Eriona Gjinukaj

Milan, September 7, 2026 — Eriona Gjinukaj has joined Spencer Stuart’s Milan office as a consultant in the Healthcare Practice, bringing more than two decades of life sciences leadership and consulting experience to the firm. Gjinukaj specializes in executive search at the CEO, C-suite and board levels across the sector, working with pharmaceutical, biotech, medtech and diagnostics companies, as well as the investors and boards behind them.

In her last role, Gjinukaj acted as both COO and president of the board of directors at Dompé, where she oversaw the full commercial, R&D, industrial and quality value chain across a 1,000-person organization and orchestrated its entry into the U.S. market. Previously, she spent 13 years at Bain & Company in Rome.

Leader of Spencer Stuart’s Healthcare Practice Alexis H. Stiles said, “Eriona brings deep expertise in executive search and leadership advisory across the life sciences sector. She's got remarkable experience both as an operational leader and in assessing leaders for world-class healthcare organizations, and she'll be an incredible asset to our team as well as the healthcare and life sciences clients we support.”

Gjinukaj holds a degree in economics from La Sapienza University in Rome and is fluent in Italian, English and Albanian. She has consulted for clients undergoing internationalization, M&A integration, generational transfer in family-owned businesses and the shift from a single-asset to a portfolio company.

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About Spencer Stuart

Privately held since 1956, Spencer Stuart is a leading global advisory firm specializing in people, team and organizational performance — spanning more than 60 offices, over 30 countries and more than 50 practice specialties. Boards and executive leaders consistently turn to Spencer Stuart for senior-level executive search, board recruitment, board effectiveness, succession planning, executive assessment and development, culture change and performance acceleration for senior leadership teams. For more information on Spencer Stuart, please visit www.spencerstuart.com.