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Elizabeth (Liz) Hawes

Vice President, Human Resources


Liz has over 15 years of Human Resources experience working within healthcare, including 8+ years in Clinical Research and 11+ years at a leadership level. Liz has a track record of developing high-performing HR teams and ‘people’ processes from scratch, affecting positive change in the organizations where she has worked both locally and globally. Her strengths lie in understanding people, supporting business strategy and success through periods of rapid growth including mergers and acquisitions, and creating an employee experience that enables people and organizations to thrive. As Vice President, Human Resources for Avance Clinical, Liz is responsible for overseeing all aspects of human resources management including leadership of our growing Human Resources team. At Avance we understand that our people and our customers are everything to our business and for this reason are constantly striving to be a great place to work. Liz and her team drive initiatives to support us in this endeavor and importantly help our incredible people and culture to be the best they can be.