Longevity and regenerative medicine
Regenerative platforms, orthobiologics, diagnostics, biologics, devices, and clinic-enablement businesses.
Leadership for the next era of health
Experienced judgment for consequential hires.
Founder-led executive search and leadership advisory for companies advancing longevity and regenerative medicine, clinical development, healthcare technology, and the platforms that enable responsible growth.
Nearly 40 yearsExecutive-search judgment and relationship capital
1 to 3Concurrent mandates for direct senior attention
Four sectorsA connected market architecture, not a generalist claim
One partnerPersonally accountable from brief through close
The Garms perspective
Leadership for What’s Next.
Connecting visionary organizations with transformational leaders.
Four connected sectors. One focused practice.
Garms begins with the longevity and regenerative medicine vendor ecosystem, then extends selectively into adjacent markets where commercialization, clinical execution, digital transformation, and leadership transition create similar executive demands.
Life sciences services and clinical development
CROs, selective CDMOs, clinical technology, site networks, and research-service companies.
Digital health, healthcare AI and HCIT
Technology businesses improving workflow, intelligence, data use, clinical operations, and access.
Healthcare support and specialty services
Physician enablement, practice infrastructure, specialty care, multi-site services, and growth platforms.
Functional expertise that travels across sectors
Industry knowledge creates context. Functional depth defines the assignment. This structure keeps the practice focused while addressing the leadership work that repeatedly appears as companies finance, commercialize, digitize, and scale.
Enterprise leadership
CEO, president, COO, chief of staff, division leadership, and general management.
Commercial and growth
Chief commercial officer, VP sales, business development, partnerships, channels, and market expansion.
Clinical development and medical
Chief medical officer, clinical development, clinical operations, medical affairs, and evidence generation.
Digital, data and AI
Chief digital officer, chief AI officer, clinical informatics, data transformation, and responsible implementation.
Operations, quality and implementation
Delivery, regulatory execution, quality, customer success, integration, and operating scale.
Boards and strategic advisors
Independent directors and advisors whose judgment, credibility, and access fit the company’s next stage.
Selective team buildouts
Pivotal sales, partnership, clinical-operations, and implementation hires supporting a defined launch or expansion.
Scope discipline: Chief Digital and AI Officer work is treated as a cross-sector functional specialty—not a disconnected fifth market. Highly technical clinical, manufacturing, quality, or AI assignments are accepted only when the role can be assessed credibly and an appropriate technical evaluator is available.
Mandates selected for impact
Every assignment is led by Dan Garms. Research and sourcing resources can be added when the scope demands them, while assessment, client counsel, candidate engagement, and closing remain personal.
C-suite and senior commercial leadership
Chief executive, chief commercial, general management, operations, and market-expansion leadership.
Retained searchVP sales and business development
Leaders who can translate differentiated science into responsible market adoption and durable channels.
Retained or engaged searchBoards and strategic advisors
Directors and advisors whose judgment, relationships, credibility, and governance strengthen the enterprise.
Board searchSelective commercial team buildouts
Focused recruitment of the leaders and pivotal individual contributors required for a launch or expansion.
Structured project engagementThe Garms difference
Technology sharpens the map. Judgment determines the match.
The outcome is not more candidates. It is the right leader, fully understood, and prepared to build.
Direct senior attention
The person retained to advise the client is the person doing the work.
Market fluency before outreach
Each search begins with the company’s science, channel, capital, regulatory posture, and growth stage.
Assessment beyond the résumé
Track record matters. So do motivation, learning agility, character, leadership presence, and cultural fit.
Respect for internal HR
The engagement strengthens internal leaders with calibration, intelligence, and access—not competition.
A disciplined search process
Structured enough to produce confidence, flexible enough to fit an entrepreneurial company, and transparent at every decision point.
Define
Clarify strategy, outcomes, culture, decision rights, and the realities of the mandate.
Map
Build the market across direct, adjacent, and transferable sources of leadership.
Engage
Approach high-value prospects with context, discretion, and a credible company story.
Assess
Evaluate evidence of performance, judgment, motivation, and fit against agreed criteria.
Close
Maintain alignment through references, offer, resignation, acceptance, and transition.
Founder
Dan Garms
Dan Garms brings nearly four decades of executive-search experience and a career built on direct relationships, candid counsel, and long-term fit. He has completed C-suite, senior commercial, board, strategic-advisor, and team-building assignments across growth businesses.
After stepping away from executive search to care for his wife through a long illness, Dan returned to the market with a deeper appreciation for the stakes behind every leadership decision. His work in regenerative medicine and physician-facing commercialization now informs a focused practice at the intersection of leadership, innovation, and human health.
Garms is intentionally small. Dan accepts a limited number of concurrent assignments so clients and candidates receive his attention at the moments it matters most.
Personal accountability. Informed judgment. Enduring fit.
Insights
Perspectives on leadership, innovation, and the business of advancing human health.
A perspective grounded in people.
Forthcoming articles from Dan Garms will explore the leadership decisions shaping longevity, regenerative medicine, life sciences, and healthcare AI.
The first article is coming soon.
Let’s talk about what’s next.
Whether you’re building your leadership team or considering your next executive opportunity, connect directly with Dan for a confidential conversation.
Call +1 312-953-7200