Andrey is a senior business leader with over 16 years of cross-industry experience. He has deep expertise in designing, operationalizing, and implementing innovative strategies. Sample engagements involved early-stage and established companies within the AI, biotech, green chemicals, fast-fashion, fintech, FMCG, home improvement, mining, packaging, pharma, recycling, and telecom industries. Before his work in consulting, Andrey was leading innovation by example in the commercial function of a large European brewer. Andrey’s business acumen sharpened as he grew from marketing and sales into management and leadership across multiple geographies.
Andrey Meshcheryakov
Engagement Manager
Andrey is a senior business leader with over 16 years of cross-industry experience. He has deep expertise in designing, operationalizing, and implementing innovative strategies. Sample engagements involved early-stage and established companies within the AI, biotech, green chemicals, fast-fashion, fintech, FMCG, home improvement, mining, packaging, pharma, recycling, and telecom industries. Before his work in consulting, Andrey was leading innovation by example in the commercial function of a large European brewer. Andrey’s business acumen sharpened as he grew from marketing and sales into management and leadership across multiple geographies.
Andrey Meshcheryakov
Engagement Manager
Alexa is a Senior Consultant for Recombinators with deep experience in bench-marking database research, having reviewed and synthesized thousands of precedents across industries. She has helped lead several projects with some of the top global pharma clients. Serving as a key member to the Recombinators team, Alexa applies expert knowledge, industry experience, and relentless energy to solving your company’s issues.
Alexa Yacteen
Senior Consultant
Avantika Pathak, MS, has recently graduated with a Doctorate of Pharmacy/MS in Regulatory Affairs. She has developed a global health perspective through her work at community clinics in India and the US and critical analytical skills through diverse research and regulatory project work spanning pharmaceutical and digital health products. She is passionate about integrating her experiences in public health, pharmacy, regulatory science, and digital health to improve patient access to novel therapeutics and healthcare.
Avantika Pathak
Senior Consultant
A motivated and energetic innovator and strategist ready to tackle any business challenge. Nicole holds a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from St. Mary’s University, San Antonio where she played collegiate soccer and developed and launched a new STEM program. She is currently pursuing an MBA at Johns Hopkins University, is a self-proclaimed microbiologist, and has several filed patents. Her extensive industry experience and learn-it-all attitude allows for a creative flow of innovative solutions to clients’ current and future challenges.
Nicole Faris
Senior Consultant
Heili is a recent graduate of Harvard University where she earned her Ed.M in Learning Design, Innovation and Technology. Passionate about strategically connecting disparate sectors and ideas, her curiosity and previous experiences enable her to leverage her business development, digital transformation and education skills when solving unique problems. Heili’s career spans both the public and private sector having worked for organizations including Canada’s Ministry of Economic Trade and Development, the Ministry of Education, Coca-Cola, the Royal Bank of Canada. Her experiences bring together her passion for innovative technologies and community service, and her ongoing active involvement at Harvard continues to expand her creative and interdisciplinary approaches leveraged at Recombinators.
Heili Palo
Senior Consultant
Nadim founded Recombinators in 2015 after 25 years of senior industry and management consulting experience. Nadim developed a new approach to strategy and innovation, which he lectured on at Columbia Business School and has applied to help solve critical business challenges for several global iconic brands. He has also built a database of over 10,000 winning precedents, which he has used to help find innovative approaches to solve his client’s business challenges and to uncover unique insights into what it takes to win in today’s evolving markets.
While on his journey, Nadim has developed and honed three core principles, which underpins what makes Recombinators unique:
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We only focus in the areas where we have deep and differentiated insights.
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We have cracked the code on how innovation happens and it can be taught.
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The way companies and people work together is changing in significant ways and we want to be ahead of this seismic trend for our clients.
Nadim Yacteen
Managing Partner
Julie possesses 20 years of industry/agency strategic, customer engagement, and business planning experience. Julie has worked across functions and has supported multiple market facing teams. She has built her career based on an ability to display exceptional customer service. Julie leads our Strategy & Customer Engagement initiatives ensuring Recombinators remains focused on the emerging challenges most effecting our clients and that we continue to deliver innovative solutions to help our clients thrive.
Julie Yacteen
Head of Strategy & Customer Engagement
After spending years serving clients in the pharmaceutical, health & wellness, specialty retail, and CPG industries, Stephen has dedicated his career to becoming a practitioner of innovation. By combining a liberal arts & business background Stephen thinks imaginatively about how value is created and delivered in markets where constraints and disruption are exponentially rising. The perspective he brings to his clients is guided by a singular focus on eliminating the gaps between vendors, customers, and partners in new, novel ways. Stephen firmly believes that enabling better strategic thinking and unlocking innovation in all functions and levels of an enterprise is the only way to bridge these gaps and achieve market leadership in today’s competitive landscape. Stephen is committed to making your people sharper, your strategies more differentiated, and your organization more customer-focused.
Stephen Moulton
Partner
Nicole is a tenured consultant with over 11 years of experience in healthcare, pharma, and consumer products. These experiences, combined with strong analytical skills that stem from her classical liberal arts education, have allowed her to help a wide variety of clients with the challenges they face. Nicole’s unique strengths and skills enable her to develop and deliver high quality advanced training, outline creative strategies, and execute against these strategic plans. Her experience spans from startups to Fortune 50 pharmaceutical companies, and she brings this combination of innovation and tried-and-true methodologies from across industries together to solve her client’s biggest challenges.
Nicole Nezat
Engagement Manager
Andrey is a senior business leader with over 16 years of cross-industry experience. He has deep expertise in designing, operationalizing, and implementing innovative strategies. Sample engagements involved early-stage and established companies within the AI, biotech, green chemicals, fast-fashion, fintech, FMCG, home improvement, mining, packaging, pharma, recycling, and telecom industries. Before his work in consulting, Andrey was leading innovation by example in the commercial function of a large European brewer. Andrey’s business acumen sharpened as he grew from marketing and sales into management and leadership across multiple geographies.
Engagement Manager
Andrey Meshcheryakov
Andrey is a senior business leader with over 16 years of cross-industry experience. He has deep expertise in designing, operationalizing, and implementing innovative strategies. Sample engagements involved early-stage and established companies within the AI, biotech, green chemicals, fast-fashion, fintech, FMCG, home improvement, mining, packaging, pharma, recycling, and telecom industries. Before his work in consulting, Andrey was leading innovation by example in the commercial function of a large European brewer. Andrey’s business acumen sharpened as he grew from marketing and sales into management and leadership across multiple geographies.
Engagement Manager
Andrey Meshcheryakov
Alexa is a Senior Consultant for Recombinators with deep experience in bench-marking database research, having reviewed and synthesized thousands of precedents across industries. She has helped lead several projects with some of the top global pharma clients. Serving as a key member to the Recombinators team, Alexa applies expert knowledge, industry experience, and relentless energy to solving your company’s issues.
Senior Consultant
Alexa
Yacteen
Avantika Pathak, MS, has recently graduated with a Doctorate of Pharmacy/MS in Regulatory Affairs. She has developed a global health perspective through her work at community clinics in India and the US and critical analytical skills through diverse research and regulatory project work spanning pharmaceutical and digital health products. She is passionate about integrating her experiences in public health, pharmacy, regulatory science, and digital health to improve patient access to novel therapeutics and healthcare.
Senior Consultant
Avantika
Pathak
A motivated and energetic innovator and strategist ready to tackle any business challenge. Nicole holds a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from St. Mary’s University, San Antonio where she played collegiate soccer and developed and launched a new STEM program. She is currently pursuing an MBA at Johns Hopkins University, is a self-proclaimed microbiologist, and has several filed patents. Her extensive industry experience and learn-it-all attitude allows for a creative flow of innovative solutions to clients’ current and future challenges.
Senior Consultant
Nicole
Faris
Heili is a recent graduate of Harvard University where she earned her Ed.M in Learning Design, Innovation and Technology. Passionate about strategically connecting disparate sectors and ideas, her curiosity and previous experiences enable her to leverage her business development, digital transformation and education skills when solving unique problems. Heili’s career spans both the public and private sector having worked for organizations including Canada’s Ministry of Economic Trade and Development, the Ministry of Education, Coca-Cola, the Royal Bank of Canada. Her experiences bring together her passion for innovative technologies and community service, and her ongoing active involvement at Harvard continues to expand her creative and interdisciplinary approaches leveraged at Recombinators.
Senior Consultant
Heili
Palo
Nadim founded Recombinators in 2015 after 25 years of senior industry and management consulting experience. Nadim developed a new approach to strategy and innovation, which he lectured on at Columbia Business School and has applied to help solve critical business challenges for several global iconic brands. He has also built a database of over 10,000 winning precedents, which he has used to help find innovative approaches to solve his client’s business challenges and to uncover unique insights into what it takes to win in today’s evolving markets.
While on his journey, Nadim has developed and honed three core principles, which underpins what makes Recombinators unique:
-
We only focus in the areas where we have deep and differentiated insights.
-
We have cracked the code on how innovation happens and it can be taught.
-
The way companies and people work together is changing in significant ways and we want to be ahead of this seismic trend for our clients.
Managing
Partner
Nadim
Yacteen
Julie possesses 20 years of industry/agency strategic, customer engagement, and business planning experience. Julie has worked across functions and has supported multiple market facing teams. She has built her career based on an ability to display exceptional customer service. Julie leads our Strategy & Customer Engagement initiatives ensuring Recombinators remains focused on the emerging challenges most effecting our clients and that we continue to deliver innovative solutions to help our clients thrive.
Head of Strategy
and Customer Engagement
Julie
Yacteen
After spending years serving clients in the pharmaceutical, health & wellness, specialty retail, and CPG industries, Stephen has dedicated his career to becoming a practitioner of innovation. By combining a liberal arts & business background Stephen thinks imaginatively about how value is created and delivered in markets where constraints and disruption are exponentially rising. The perspective he brings to his clients is guided by a singular focus on eliminating the gaps between vendors, customers, and partners in new, novel ways. Stephen firmly believes that enabling better strategic thinking and unlocking innovation in all functions and levels of an enterprise is the only way to bridge these gaps and achieve market leadership in today’s competitive landscape. Stephen is committed to making your people sharper, your strategies more differentiated, and your organization more customer-focused.
Partner
Stephen
Moulton
Nicole is a tenured consultant with over 11 years of experience in healthcare, pharma, and consumer products. These experiences, combined with strong analytical skills that stem from her classical liberal arts education, have allowed her to help a wide variety of clients with the challenges they face. Nicole’s unique strengths and skills enable her to develop and deliver high quality advanced training, outline creative strategies, and execute against these strategic plans. Her experience spans from startups to Fortune 50 pharmaceutical companies, and she brings this combination of innovation and tried-and-true methodologies from across industries together to solve her client’s biggest challenges.