Heidrick & Struggles Appoints New Search Consultants to Life Sciences Practice in...

Heidrick & Struggles Appoints New Search Consultants to Life Sciences Practice
in India and Japan

CHICAGO, Jan. 12, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Heidrick & Struggles International,
Inc. (Nasdaq:HSII), the world's premier executive search and leadership
consulting firm, today announced that Srinivas Maddali and Masahiro Inoue have
joined the firm's India and Japan offices as Principals in the Life Sciences
Practice.

"Both Srinivas and Mas are significant and essential hires for Heidrick &
Struggles, given the growth of the our Life Sciences Practice in the Asia
Pacific region," said Charles Moore, Managing Partner of the firm's Life
Sciences Practice in Asia Pacific. "Their experience from the industry makes
them a huge asset to our business both in country and across the region."

Maddali, based in New Delhi, joined the firm from Abbott, where he worked in
various business leadership and marketing roles in India and across the APAC
Region. Most recently, he served as Country Manager of Abbott Vascular Hong
Kong. Prior to his tenure at Abbott, he was Business Head for Guidant India for
four years and product manager with Becton Dickinson. He started his career with
Eli Lilly Ranbaxy in India and worked there for six years in roles of increasing
responsibility in Sales and Marketing. Maddali completed his bachelor's in
Pharmacy from Gulbarga University and has an MBA from the Management Development
Institute Gurgaon.

Inoue, based in Tokyo, started his career in 1981 with Fuji Bank in Japan and
was later assigned to its U.S. operation. While in the U.S., he joined The
Monitor Company, a Massachusetts-based strategy consulting firm and engaged in
global client cases to help build and execute strategies against Japanese
competitors. After almost 10 years in the U.S., he came back to Japan and worked
at W.R. Grace and later at AT&T, where he led new product launch projects for
Asia and Japan markets, a business turnaround project, and a merger and
acquisition project of a Tokyo Stock Exchange listed company. In 1999 he moved
into the Life Sciences sector, first as Head of Bio-Science at Baxter and most
recently as Head of Sales of the Primary Care Business Unit at Novartis. Inoue
received a BA in law from Keio University and an MBA from Amos Tuck School of
Dartmouth College.

About Heidrick & Struggles International, Inc.

Heidrick & Struggles International, Inc. is the world's premier provider of
senior-level executive search and leadership consulting services, including
talent management, board building, executive on-boarding and M&A effectiveness.
For more than 50 years, we have focused on quality service and built strong
leadership teams through our relationships with clients and individuals
worldwide. Today, Heidrick & Struggles leadership experts operate from principal
business centers in North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia Pacific. For
more information about Heidrick & Struggles, please visit
http://www.heidrick.com.

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