Executive search delivery
Personally led executive, leadership, specialized, and mission-critical searches across complex organizations.
About Quinnect
Experience connects the dots. Trust moves the work forward.
I founded Quinnect Search to give organizations a more experienced, transparent, and human way to make critical leadership and specialized-talent hires.
Meet the founder
Michael Quinn
For more than 20 years, I have worked across both sides of search: retained executive recruiting and senior talent-acquisition leadership inside global organizations.
My experience spans medical technology, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, CDMO/CTDMO, healthcare, and technology environments. I have advised business and HR leaders, built and led recruiting teams, managed RPO and external search partners, and delivered leadership and specialized searches across the U.S., Europe, and the Americas.
That operator’s perspective matters. I understand the pressure behind a critical vacancy, the competing stakeholder expectations, the importance of candidate experience, and the business cost of a search that drifts.
When a need grows beyond a single search, I can draw on a trusted network of recruiters at all levels to add capacity and specialized expertise. I remain personally accountable for the strategy, quality, and client relationship as the work scales.
Talent-market intelligence
Built targeted market maps, leadership pipelines, competitor insights, and direct-sourcing strategies for hard-to-fill roles.
Client-side leadership
Led internal teams, contractors, RPOs, search firms, vendors, technology implementations, and recruiting operations.
Transformation experience
Supported growth, M&A, integration, restructuring, workforce change, and global operating-model improvements.
Evidence under pressure
Complexity, delivered.
These are the kinds of business conditions that shaped how I lead search work today.
interviews directed for 290+ employees during a global transformation, completed in 12 weeks, two weeks early, while helping 92 people avoid redundancy.
supported through a global IT hiring initiative. I hired, trained, and led 12 long-term contract recruiters and schedulers to deliver at scale.
Recruiting efforts I led supported growth into a first U.S. external manufacturing site and the first third-party CTDMO approved by the FDA for commercial manufacturing support.
Achievements & recognition
Results recognized by the organizations I served.
I value recognition most when it reflects meaningful outcomes: stronger delivery, smarter investment, better collaboration, and positive impact on people.
Three Impact Awards
Recognized for collaboration and superior performance on initiatives that delivered significant business value.
$120K saved
Optimized a sponsored-jobs investment while generating eight direct hires, showing that disciplined recruiting can improve both outcomes and cost.
700 employees
Served as Talent Acquisition Project Lead for a global IT transformation affecting 700 employees.
130+ attendees
Created a first-of-its-kind on-campus diversity networking event with Women in Technology International.
Professional foundation: M.S. in Organizational Development & Leadership, PHR, LinkedIn Certified Recruiter, multiple AIRS certifications, and Behavioral Interview Certification.
Connected thinking
Every search connects business strategy, market intelligence, leadership capability, and human motivation.
Candid partnership
Clear expectations, direct counsel, and transparent communication, especially when the answer is difficult.
Personal accountability
I stay close to the work from kickoff through acceptance, so the person who earns your trust remains accountable for the outcome.
Leadership search without the layers.
I combine the rigor and reach of a global search approach with the access, care, and responsiveness of a founder-led firm.
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