Engagement Leadership
Jeb Connor
TLG Chairman & Managing Director
Twelve-years of foundational sales, business development, marketing, and general management experience with Hewlett-Packard’s Analytical Systems Group (now Agilent Technologies) culminating as global head of HP’s Laboratory Automation Systems Business.
Thirty-plus years as founding executive, CEO, and Chairman of multiple investor backed software and technology companies in the life science, healthcare, information technology and MSP markets, some ground floor start-ups, others as turnarounds, but all involving strategy development, operational execution, capitalization and investor liquidity.
Examples include:
- EMAX Solution Partners – As CEO led its turn-around and capitalization from a challenged venture capital backed start-up into a successful enterprise software and e-commerce solution provider to the life-science research marketplace and its subsequent acquisition for $149 million by a public company;
- ArtusLabs - As its Chairman, was instrumental to its development and acquisition by PerkinElmer;
- Synthematix – As its founding outside Director, led its acquisition by a public company;
- Panacya – Served as Chairman & CEO of this web and mobile application infrastructure management software company that was the precursor to BoxTone which was acquired by a public company; and
- Automated Compliance Systems – Co-founder and EVP Sales and Marketing for this a laboratory information management systems (LIMS) software company acquired by Beckman
Formed The Longwood Group in 2016 and serves as its Chairman and Managing Director. Instrumental in building and drawing on a network of bankers, investors, subject matter experts, and specialty firms to supplement the process of guiding companies through successful business transformations resulting in value creation, acquisitions and capitalizations.
Concurrent with The Longwood Group, served as the Chairman, CEO and founder of Genome Profiling, a spin-out genomic diagnostics company from the University of Delaware.
Senior Advisor and Managing Director with FOCUS Investment Bankers, a rapidly growing global M&A advisory firm to emerging growth and middle-market businesses.
Graduate of the College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio with a BA in Biology, and a MBA from Rutgers University.