Brittney McDonough is a Partner and Chair of the Healthcare and Life Sciences Practice at BarkerGilmore. She is a trusted executive search partner to CEOs, boards, CHROs, and General Counsel who rely on her to recruit senior legal and compliance leaders in highly regulated, complex healthcare environments.

Brittney focuses exclusively on healthcare and life sciences, working across health systems, private equity-backed healthcare services companies, academic medical centers, digital health and health IT platforms, medical device and biotech companies, and payers. Her work spans General Counsel, Deputy General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer, and other senior legal and regulatory leadership roles where judgment, credibility, and cultural alignment are critical.

Clients work with Brittney not for resumes, but for conviction. She brings deep market knowledge, long-standing relationships with proven legal leaders, and an ability to assess how candidates will actually perform in the role. Known for her thoughtful, direct style, Brittney is particularly valued for helping leadership teams think through structure, succession, and the long-term implications of senior legal hires.

Her approach is highly personalized and relationship-driven. By combining disciplined execution of BarkerGilmore’s CustomFit℠ assessment process with an intuitive understanding of leadership dynamics, Brittney consistently delivers placements that stick and leaders who scale with the business.

Brittney has presented at national conferences, participated in legal and compliance-focused podcasts, and contributed to leading publications covering the in-house legal market, compensation trends, and leadership development.

She earned her B.A., cum laude, from the State University of New York at Geneseo.

Executive Search

Representative engagements include General Counsel searches for publicly traded and private equity backed healthcare companies, the Chief Compliance Officer of a world-renowned cancer center, the Deputy General Counsel of a top tier academic health system, and senior legal and compliance leaders for high growth healthcare services organizations.

Before joining BarkerGilmore, Brittney spent a decade at a Fortune 500 company in a variety of strategic leadership roles. Trained in project management and operational execution, she is known for her ability to listen carefully, synthesize complex inputs, and move decisively. Her clients often describe her as both a trusted advisor and a steady quarterback throughout critical leadership transitions.

Private Equity, Healthcare & Life Sciences (Chair), Technology