John Travis starts Travis & Company.
Bitten by the entrepreneurial bug, John left his career as a life sciences industry veteran to open Travis & Company.
With more than 40 years in business and hundreds of executive placements we pride ourselves on successfully assisting our clients find the best talent for their organizations.
Named by BusinessWeek as one of "The World's Most Influential Headhunters," Mike Travis credits his accomplishments through the years to one central principle—understanding and serving clients as if their businesses were his own.
The media including the Boston Business Journal and The New York Times frequently utilizes Mike to offer commentary on topics related to executive search.
Mike is an active member of MassMEDIC and a former committee chair at the MIT Enterprise Forum. He's also involved with not for profit organizations cancer and food insecurity, including Family Reach, which addresses the financial burden of a cancer diagnosis, where he sits on the National Advisory Board, and the Greater Boston Food Bank, where he's an Emeritus Board Member.
Travis & Company's roots in recruitment run deep
Bitten by the entrepreneurial bug, John left his career as a life sciences industry veteran to open Travis & Company.
Father and son worked together for ten years until John retired in 2005. John passed away in 2015.
Recognized and hired by many of the world's top life science companies.
Travis & Company specializes in the following:
Want to take a deeper dive into how we recruit top executive talent? Here are a few examples detailing how we helped our clients.
In response to rapid growth, ZOLL created the position of president to manage the company’s core business. ZOLL needed an outstanding executive who understood the challenges of selling capital equipment to life sciences customers.
J-Pac Medical is a medical device contract manufacturer. Torque Capital, the New York based private equity firm that owns J-Pac Medical, engaged us to find a new CEO to improve performance at the company and drive revenue and profit growth....
FH ORTHO was a French company specializing in orthopedic products for extremities, sports and trauma. The company was owned by LBO France, one of the country’s leading private equity firms....
We've worked with many world-class life science companies around the globe. Here is a listing of many of the clients we've worked with over the years...