Executive search consultancies in the US have been chosen or retained in a number of high-profile searches.

Epsen Fuller/IMD International Search Group has been selected by pharmaceutical development company Mitsubishi Pharma America to find two key executives: senior medical director, therapeutic area head, nephrology and medical director, head of safety, for its US headquarters in Warren, NJ.

Global search firm Heidrick & Struggles has been retained by Africare, the African-American led organisation working exclusively on development aid to Africa, to fill the upcoming president vacancy.

International search firm Spencer Stuart has been retained by General Motors Corp to find directors to serve on the board of the new company that it expects to emerge from bankruptcy, GM chairman Kent Kresa said on Monday.

Kresa said he was already interviewing potential candidates. Kresa, who was in California and speaking on a conference call with reporters, said the expectation was to have director nominees ready for the GM board in the next few months.