Tom Callaway
Founder of Life Science Partner
Atlanta, Georgia
Overview
Work Experience
Founder and President
2003 - Current
Since 2003, Life Science Partner has provided premium retained executive search services to life sciences and medtech companies across the nation. Our clients repeated turn to Life Science Partner particularly for their scientific, regulatory, clinical, market access, and chief medical officer recruiting needs. The transformational leaders we identify and recruit lead teams to commercialize innovative technologies to improve patient outcomes while reducing costs and complexity. tom@lifesciencepartner.com
Venture Partner
2013 - 2022
HealthQuest Capital is a venture-growth fund seeking commercial stage investments where our capital is primarily directed toward revenue growth and operational scale. We invest in healthcare innovation across most of the healthcare spectrum: medical devices, diagnostics, digital health, tech enabled services, and consumer medicine. In fact, we're interested in knowing about almost any innovative and proprietary product or service in healthcare that optimizes value (lower cost plus better outcomes), reduces complexity, and/or increases certainty. tom@hqcap.com
HealthQuest Capital is a growth equity, private equity firm investing in commercial-stage companies across the healthcare industry
Managing Partner
2005 - 2015
Georgia Venture Partners (GVP) was established in 2004 to make seed and early-stage investments in life sciences enterprises related to Georgia. The Fund’s purpose is twofold: 1) to achieve superior investment returns, primarily in the form of capital gains, by building and investing in debt and equity securities of a portfolio of companies, and 2) to increase economic development of life sciences in Georgia by seed or early-stage investments in life science entities.
Chairman
2009 - 2013
AerovectRx Corporation is an aerosol therapeutics and vaccine company founded in 2005 to commercialize the exclusive, world-wide license of patent-protected technology developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Partner
1997 - 2001
Partner
1995 - 1997
Director, Commercial Development
1993 - 1995
Director Scientific Affairs
1990 - 1993
Roche Molecular Systems, Inc., a molecular diagnostics company, develops and commercializes diagnostic and blood screening tests based on