For over 20 years Georgina Anne Padilla, executive recruiter, has been engaged in several endeavors for organizations collectively focused on technology, biotechnology, pharmaceutical development, communications and scientific commercialization.

In the corporate realm she established, and operated as CEO, a corporation for the recruitment of managerial personnel, scientists, and engineers in the high technology, biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. At the multidisciplinary, managerial-driven level of organization she was instrumental in the initiation of numerous start-up ventures. She has been an invited speaker and organizer of seminars and workshops at industrial trade shows in the field of professional development and the individual’s role on the impact of biotechnology on real-world problems.

In the arts, her personal efforts have included the founding of an international art gallery, the launching of an art Restoration and Preservation Workshop in Guanajuato, Mexico, and the organization and establishment of a grass roots collective art studio in Hillsborough, North Carolina. On a personal level she is a continuing visual artist with invitational presentations and an award winner in juried art exhibitions.

She was awarded a scholarship at the North Carolina School of the Arts to study visual arts. She continued her education at the California College of the Arts, the Instituto Allende and the Universidad de Guanajuato. She was awarded a BA at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her undergraduate major was in fine arts and printmaking. She was admitted to the Graduate Program in Social Work before relocating back to California.

In the San Francisco Bay Area she worked for several large staffing organizations before joining the prestigious Sharf, Woodward and Associates. Her career in talent acquisition has involved working with large organizations such as Amgen, Genentech, Oracle Corporation and Network Appliance and building successful companies such as Vicinity, LV Sensors, Titan, Mediware and numerous others.

Her crowning accomplishment has been raising her three children, Oscar, Katrin and Zoe. They attend college in California and are pursuing education in the arts, business and ecology. She now lives in her birthplace, Los Angeles.