ABOUT CONNEXIS
Twenty-five years. Three industries. Over 5,000 placements. This is the story of how Connexis was built — and why it works the way it does.
Founder & President
Tony didn't start his career in recruiting. He started it in a pharmaceutical laboratory, working as a chemist for three years before making the transition into sales — first as a distributor rep at Thermo Fisher Scientific, then into capital equipment sales at Instrumentation Laboratory, and then Beckman Coulter, where he rose from sales representative to sales manager to Area Vice President.
He became a consistent President's Club winner — finishing in the top five of 80 to 90 people as a sales rep, and continuing to exceed goals as a manager. Before founding Connexis, he served as VP of Sales for a technology company.
At Beckman Coulter, a mentor invested seriously in teaching him how to identify and develop talent. Something clicked. He realized he was as interested in the people side of the business as the commercial side — maybe more. He had spent years learning what made a great diagnostics sales rep, what separated a strong field application scientist from an average one, and how to build a team that actually performed.
In 2001, he founded Connexis Search Group in Greenville, South Carolina — focused exclusively on diagnostics, life sciences, and medical device. The markets he'd spent his career in. He remains actively involved in searches today. Most of his senior-level candidate relationships are personal. That's not something you build from a database.
25
Years in the niche
5,000+
Placements made
2001
Year founded
25yrs
Longest client relationships
Meet Connexis
Get to know the recruiters who connect our clients with commercial, technical, and leadership talent.
With Connexis since 2006
Stacy serves as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer. She oversees the firm’s finances and day-to-day operations while supporting recruiters with technology, database needs, and the adoption of new AI tools. Her broad understanding of recruiting helps keep the team equipped and the business running smoothly.
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With Connexis since 2008
Brent serves as Vice President of Business Development. A major contributor to the firm’s growth, he has brought in numerous new clients and built longstanding relationships with senior industry executives. He combines that business development experience with recruiting expertise across diagnostics and healthcare.
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With Connexis since 2013
Mickey brings empathy and a relationship-centered approach to recruiting, building deep connections with hiring managers and candidates alike. Before joining Connexis, she taught with a strong focus on technology and computers. A generous colleague and dedicated team player, she readily shares her knowledge and support with people both within Connexis and beyond.
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With Connexis since 2014
Kevin is a seasoned diagnostics industry executive who spent many years as Vice President of Sales at Beckman Coulter. He brings deep industry knowledge and an extensive network of senior-level relationships to client acquisition and business development at Connexis, helping diagnostic companies connect their hiring needs with the firm’s search expertise.
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With Connexis since 2016
Nevin brings laboratory and commercial leadership experience to executive and technical recruiting. Before Connexis, he served as National Director of Business Development at LabCorp, Executive Vice President of Sales at AIBioTech, and National Accounts Manager at DiaSorin. His background in clinical laboratories and molecular diagnostics helps him understand both the technical and business needs behind a search.
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With Connexis since 2016
Tom combines life sciences business development with hands-on experience in scientific instrumentation. Before Connexis, he served as President of Advanced Scientific Technology Group and worked as a Sales Engineer at Tecan. His background in laboratory equipment and biomedical research tools informs his work recruiting technical talent, from bench-level professionals to executive leaders.
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With Connexis since 2017
Troy brings a strong work ethic and an intense focus on helping clients quickly identify and hire the right candidates. His placements span pathologists, oncology sales representatives and sales leaders, and Vice Presidents of Operations. Working across both technical and commercial searches, he combines urgency with close attention to each client’s hiring needs.
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With Connexis since 2018
Justin combines candidate recruiting with business development, building his own client relationships and working closely with hiring managers to fill sales and technical positions. He stays connected to the industry through events such as the AUA meeting, which he recently attended. His work spans developing new clients and finding candidates who meet their hiring needs.
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With Connexis since 2019
Charles brings broad search experience across commercial, technical, and leadership roles. His work ranges from oncology sales representative searches to placing candidates in Germany and recruiting for Vice President of Human Resources positions. His varied interests and experience allow him to engage with a wide range of hiring needs.
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With Connexis since 2019
Paul brings extensive diagnostic sales and management experience to recruiting and business development at Connexis. His background includes sales leadership roles at Adeza Biomedical, Wampole Laboratories, and Hybritech, covering women’s healthcare, clinical chemistry, and immunoassay systems. He understands the commercial demands of selling to physicians, hospitals, and clinical laboratories.
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With Connexis since 2022
Before joining Connexis, Perry served as Vice President of Sales for several medical device companies. He draws on that deep industry knowledge in both business development and recruiting, helping medical device clients define their hiring needs and find the right talent.
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With Connexis since 2024
Elizabeth brings diagnostics industry leadership to her role as Vice President of Talent Acquisition. Before Connexis, she served as Vice President of Commercialization and Business Development at VERAVAS and held strategic national-account responsibilities at DiaSorin. Her experience spans commercialization, sales strategy, contracting, and partnerships with hospitals and laboratories.
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With Connexis since 2025
Thor serves as Vice President of Talent Acquisition at Connexis. He brings extensive sales and management experience in molecular diagnostics, including roles at Luminex and EraGen Biosciences. His background spans infectious disease testing, reagents, and capital equipment, with firsthand knowledge of clinical and hospital laboratories.
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With Connexis since 2026
Emma recently joined Connexis with six years of prior recruiting experience and a degree in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M University. The newest addition to our team, she has already helped identify candidates for a client’s expansion, and we’re excited to have her on board.
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Director of Marketing | With Connexis since 2018
James serves as Director of Marketing, overseeing all marketing for Connexis. His expertise spans digital advertising, website strategy, and lead generation. He led the transition from WordPress to a modern, AI-driven Webflow website, doubling monthly leads compared with the previous site. James helps connect more organizations with the recruiting expertise they need.
View LinkedIn profilefor James BishopExplore completed searches across diagnostics, pathology, life sciences, and medical technology.
Explore our case studiesWe take a focused number of searches at a time. Not because we can't handle more volume — because diluted attention produces diluted results. When we take your search, we work it. Every day, until it's done.
We're not posting your job and waiting. We're calling the candidates who are currently succeeding somewhere else and need a compelling reason to consider moving. That's where the best people always are — and where a 25-year network makes the difference.
Not platitudes. The specific things that guide how we work every day.
If we can't fill your search, we'll tell you before we take it. If the candidate pool is smaller than you think, we'll tell you what it actually looks like.
We'd rather have a difficult conversation at the start than a failed search at the end. That's the only way to build a relationship worth having.
We work in three industries. Not twenty.
The depth of our network in diagnostics, life sciences, and medical device comes directly from saying no to everything outside those verticals for over two decades.
Specialization isn't a positioning statement for us — it's a daily operating decision.
We move as fast as we can. But we will not present a candidate we don't believe in just to show activity.
The placements we're most proud of aren't the ones we filled fastest — they're the ones still succeeding five and ten years later. That's the standard we hold ourselves to.
The professionals in our network are the foundation of everything we do. Without the trust of candidates who pick up our calls, engage seriously in our process, and stay in our network across multiple career moves — we have nothing to offer the clients who hire through us.
Many of the people we've worked with over the past 25 years have been with us across two, three, or more career moves. Some of the sales representatives we placed early in their careers are now the vice presidents and senior leaders who hire through us today. Those relationships didn't happen by accident — they happened because we treated the candidate side of every search with the same seriousness as the client side.
We don't pitch roles to people who aren't right for them. We don't oversell companies to get a placement. We don't go quiet after someone has invested time in a process. That's how you build a network that picks up the phone — and keeps picking it up twenty years later.
If you're a professional in diagnostics, life sciences, or medical device — whether you're actively looking or simply want to be on our radar for the right opportunity — we'd like to connect.
Connect with Connexis →Connexis recruits across diagnostics, life sciences, and medical device — these practices often intersect.
Practice Area
Our oldest and deepest practice — 25 years placing talent in reference labs and clinical laboratories.
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Instruments, CDMOs, CROs, reagents, and biotech — the full life sciences tools and services market.
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Senior expertise without the full-time commitment — across all three of our practice areas.
Explore →Common questions about working with us.
Both. Executive and senior leadership searches, confidential replacements, and highly specialized technical searches are typically retained. Team-expansion searches and individual contributor roles often run contingent. We'll tell you upfront which model makes sense for your search and why.
Tell us about the search. A brief conversation — what the role is, why it's open, what you've already tried — gives us what we need to assess whether we're the right fit. If we're not, we'll say so. If we are, we'll discuss the engagement model and timeline from there.
Yes. We've helped pre-revenue startups make their first commercial hire and placed senior leaders at Fortune 100 organizations. The approach, the candidate profile, and often the engagement model differ significantly between the two — and we're experienced at both ends.
We work in three industries only — diagnostics, life sciences, and medical device. The candidates we reach, the questions we ask, and the evaluations we make are shaped by 25 years of exclusive focus on these markets. When we say a candidate is strong, it's because we understand what strong looks like in your specific segment — not because the resume looks good on paper.
Tell us about a search. We'll tell you honestly whether we're the right firm for it.
