onTargetjobs Announces Appointment of Michael Tansey as New CEOonTargetjobs Announces Appointment of Michael Tansey as New CEO
Industry veteran joins growing specialty online employment portal to lead expansion
Fort Worth, Texas — June 9, 2008 — /PRNewswire — onTargetjobs, the leading niche Internet job board company, announced today the appointment of Michael J. “Mike” Tansey as Chief Executive Officer. The search was conducted by Taylor Winfield, Inc.
“I am delighted to be part of the onTargetjobs team as it is poised to enter a period of accelerated growth,” said Mr. Tansey. “The acquisition of RegionalHelpWanted.com earlier this year has created a unique opportunity to serve both national and local recruitment needs in the largest employment sectors in the economy.”
Mr. Tansey has worked more than 20 years as an executive in the information industry. Prior to onTargetjobs, which he joined last month, Mr. Tansey was CEO of Jobson Medical Information, a diversified medical information business focused on providing comprehensive marketing solutions. Before returning to his entrepreneurial roots, he spent 14 years with ThomsonReuters-affiliated businesses in a variety of CEO and Group CEO positions.
He has an extensive track record in electronic product development and was instrumental in the creation of ThomsonReuters “Web of Science,” the first comprehensive information portal for the Academic Research Community. Mr. Tansey also worked with the management team associated with ISI which was later acquired by Thomson.
onTargetjobs also announced that former CEO Allen Paschal will continue to be actively involved in the business, where he will focus on acquisitions strategy and business development activities. Mr. Paschal was the founder of DataTimes, the first company to digitize news content for online research.
About onTargetjobs
onTargetjobs (http://www.ontargetjobs.com) is the parent company of BioSpace.com (http://www.biospace.com), DeviceSpace.com (http://www.devicespace.com), Hcareers.com (http://www.hcareers.com), HEALTHeCAREERS.com (http://www.healthecareers.com), MedHunters.com (http://www.medhunters.com), JobLoft.com (http://www.jobloft.com), CareerBank.com (http://www.careerbank.com) and RegionalHelpWanted.com (http://www.regionalhelpwanted.com). The company invests in leading niche Internet job sites, serving a defined geographic or vertical industry or job function. onTargetjobs provides online career services to the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical device, hospitality, restaurant, healthcare, accounting, finance and geographically-localized markets. Investors include Warburg Pincus.
About Taylor Winfield, Inc.
Established in 1987, Taylor Winfield has been instrumental in building billions $$ in market value within the high technology industry, via retained executive search and strategic business development. Through key relationships with premier private equity and venture capital firms, maturing client companies, and their executive network of visionary industry leaders, Taylor Winfield has conducted searches to create hundreds of high tech core management teams in Consumer Internet, Wireless, SaaS, Enterprise Software, Networking, Hardware, Services, and Semiconductors – and now Healthcare, Clean Tech, Renewable Energy and Retail.