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Convivial

Life Sciences Executive Search & Talent Advisors

Convivial

Life Sciences Executive Search & Talent Advisors

capabilities

EXECUTIVE SEARCH

RECRUITMENT PROCESS CONSULTING

Demand for life sciences executive leadership talent far outstrips supply. Major functional, scientific, and professional leadership roles are often times highly specialized. Convivial takes a customized, consultative and research based approach to identifying, engaging and attracting candidates that bring the right profile to your organization.

RECRUITMENT PROCESS CONSULTING

Beyond just finding the right candidates, high growth companies face many challenges related to the recruitment process. Convivial can help you design, implement and manage solutions to such challenges as job description drafting, effective and compliant applicant screening and candidate interviewing processes and techniques, reference and background checks, onboarding, among others.

COMPENSATION CONSULTING

RECRUITMENT PROCESS CONSULTING

COMPENSATION CONSULTING

Convivial's private, venture-financed clients are constantly managing their burn-rates and cap tables. Convivial brings combined expertise in executive recruitment and executive/equity compensation consulting to help guide you in setting an overall compensation philosophy, designing evidence-based compensation structures, rates, programs, and crafting compelling compensation packages/offers.

INDUSTRY FOCUS

Convivial-Lifesciex works with organizations at the leading areas of major life sciences innovations, such as drug modalities, biological pathways, complex and novel formulations:

PROTEIN DEGRADATION
COMPLEMENT MEDIATION
EPIGENETICS
GENE EDITING
RNA THERAPEUTICS

The Convivial Team maintains a vast network of expert contacts in a range of innovative discovery methods, drug modalities, and rare and complex disease states:

MONOCLONAL & BI-SPECIFIC ANTIBODIES, ADCs
BIOINFORMATICS & COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY/CHEMISTRY
ADVANCED FORMULATION & DELIVERY MECHANISMS
RARE DISEASES
IMMUNO-ONCOLOGY, AUTO-IMMUNE, INFLAMATION, CNS

REPRESENTATIVE PLACEMENTS

EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP

PROFESSIONAL/SCIENTIFIC LEADERS & EXPERTS

Chief Medical Officer / Clinical stage, small cap, public co., Neurodegeneration TA
Chief Medical Officer/ Infectious Diseases, Mid-size RNA biotech
Deputy Chief Medical Officer / Large Biopharma
SVP Medical Affairs / Large Biopharma
VP Program Leader-Neuroscience / Large Biopharma
VP Life Cycle Leader-Rare Blood Disorders / Clinical Stage Biopharma
VP Program Leader--Metabolic Bone Disorder / Large Biopharma
VP Clinical Operations / Clinical Stage Biopharma
VP Global Clinical Operations, Large Biopharma
SVP Pharmacovigilance & Safety, Large Biopharma
VP Biostatistics, Clinical Stage, mRNA Private biopharma
SVP Medical Affairs, Large Biopharma Gene Therapy Spinout
SVP Supply Chain and Technical Operations, Large Biopharma Gene Therapy Spinout
VP, Head of Legal Affairs / Preclinical stage epigenetics Start up
VP Clinical Development, Infectious Diseases, Clinical stage, Mid -size RNA biotech

PROFESSIONAL/SCIENTIFIC LEADERS & EXPERTS

Director, Intellectual Property
Director, FP&A Corporate Counsel
Sr. Director Nanoparticle Formulation
Sr. Scientist, Formulation and Delivery R&D
Sr. Research Investigator, Group Leader Protein Degradation
Principal Scientist, Epigenetics
Sr. Director, Regulatory CMC
Sr. Director, Regulatory Strategy Rare Diseases
Sr. Director, Regulatory Operations
Sr Scientist, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
Sr. Scientist, Crystallography
Sr. Manager, Strategic Planning
Associate Director, Program and Alliance Management
Associate Director, Program Lead, mRNA Vaccines

PRECLINICAL & TRANSLATIONAL

Executive Director, Translational Sciences
Medical Director, Translational Medicine
Sr. Director-RNA Therapeutics
Director Rare Disease Research
Director, Preclinical Sciences
Sr. Director, Toxicology
Executive Director, Protein Sciences
Director Computational Chemistry
Sr. Director Drug Discovery
Sr. Scientist, Translational Oncology, mRNA Therapeutics
Sr. Director, Medicinal Chemistry
Sr. Research Investigator, Neuroscience

CLINICAL & MEDICAL AFFAIRS

PRECLINICAL & TRANSLATIONAL

Sr. Director Epidemiology
Associate Director, Global Payer Evidence and Value Translation
Executive Director/Head, Field Medical Affairs
Sr. Director, Publications Planning and Strategy
Sr. Director, Medical Information
Sr. Director Biostatistics
Exec Director Clinical Data Management
Sr. Medical Director, Infectious Diseases
Medical Director, Personalized Cancer Vaccines
Sr. Director, Clinical Operations, Infectious Diseases
Exec. Director, Clinical Pharmacology
Medical Director, Hematology, RNAi

founder's bio

Tom Eisenmann

Tom Eisenmann founded Convivial in 2016 after more than 20 years of experience in a variety of retained executive search, internal talent acquisition, and compensation consulting roles in various industries. Tom started his professional life as an inner-city middle and high school teacher in New York for five years.

His focus has been in life sciences since serving as R&D talent acquisition lead at Alexion Pharmaceuticals from 2011-2014. He also served as head of talent acquistion operations, playing a lead role in building operational capacity sufficient to support Alexion's growth from ~750 to over 2000 employess worldwide in just over three years. Since that time, he has provided similar recruitment and operational support as an external consultant to several innovative, high-growth biopharma companies, generally in the greater Boston/Cambridge and broader New England areas.

He is a 2016 graduate of the University of Connecticut School of Law, where he focused on employment law. He has also earned a BA in History from Fordham University, MA in Religion from Yale Divinity School, and a MS in Information Science from Long Island University. He has attained the SPHR designation from the Society of Human Resources Management; the Retirement Plans Associate and Compensation Management Associate designations from the International Foundation for Employee Benefits; has completed Executive Compensation training from World@Work, and passed two levels of the Certified Equity Professional designation from the Certified Equity Professional Institute/Santa Clara University.

He has lived in New Haven, Connecticut since 2011 and is active in his local community, serving on the on the Board of Directors for Hart United, a nonprofit offering a range of housing and other programs serving the developmentally disabled in the Greater New Haven area, committe member and chair of his son's Boy Scout/Cub Scout troops, and as Parish Council President of Holy Transfiguration Orthodox Church in New Haven.