Matthew Toner

Matt Toner is a Venture Partner at LongeVC, where he supports portfolio companies in building high-performing teams as they transition from scientific proof to commercial scale. He brings over 15 years of experience in executive search, leadership consulting, and strategic recruitment for early-stage and emerging biotech ventures.

As co-founder and former CEO of LifeSci Search, Matt helped launch the first executive search firm dedicated exclusively to early-stage biotech. Under his leadership, the firm expanded globally, operating across the United States, Europe, Israel, Japan, and China, and was named one of the top 50 executive search firms in the US.

Matt’s work focuses on the human capital strategies that underpin category-defining biotech companies. His expertise spans C-level hiring, board composition, team dynamics, and organizational design, particularly for startups working in complex, translational science. He has advised clients across modalities including gene and cell therapy, mRNA platforms, microbiome therapeutics, and longevity biotech.

Matt’s insights have been featured in BioSpace, Life Sciences Leader, and the Boston Business Journal. At LongeVC, he plays a key role in helping founders answer one of the most defining questions in early biotech: who do you hire when the science gets real?