Thomas Carey is the founder of Perspective Group, where he also served as Managing Partner until late 2022. Perspective Group focuses on innovative life sciences companies, specializing in board advisory and executive search.

Tom previously spent 15 years at two leading executive search firms. Most recently he led Spencer Stuart’s efforts in life sciences board of director advisory and recruitment services. Prior to that, at Russell Reynolds, he was co-leader of the global healthcare practice, and earlier he led the firm’s biopharmaceuticals practice in the Americas. Before entering the executive search industry, Tom served as CFO of various private and public healthcare companies. He began his career as an investment banker in M&A.

Tom has notable board experience, serving on the Board of SomaLogic, Inc., a publicly traded life sciences tools company (Nasdaq:SLGC) until its merger with Standard BioTools, and previously on the Board of Exact Sciences Corporation (Nasdaq:EXAS), a publicly traded cancer diagnostics company, and as the Chair of the Board of Vital Bioscience, Inc., a venture capital backed point-of-care diagnostics company. Tom also serves on the regional board of the American Cancer Society.

Tom received his bachelor’s degree in physics from the College of the Holy Cross and his MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.