Proxima

Proxima Search is a boutique executive search firm established in 2022, specialising in placing senior leadership across the medical technology and healthcare innovation sectors. The company operates on a partner-led model where founder Tim Erim Khan personally oversees every mandate from initial brief through to integration, ensuring accountability and continuity throughout the recruitment process. Rather than filling seats, Proxima assembles the operating systems behind companies that drive meaningful change in healthcare, working exclusively with a maximum of six mandates at any given time to maintain quality and focus.

Proxima Search concentrates its expertise across three core practice areas: MedTech and Devices, including surgical robotics, cardiovascular systems, orthopaedics, neuromodulation and bioelectronics across Series A through commercial stage companies; Digital Health, encompassing remote monitoring, clinical decision support, virtual care platforms and patient engagement solutions; and Clinical AI and Imaging, focusing on foundation models for biology, AI-native imaging and regulated software as a medical device (SaMD). The company's consultants bring deep operational experience, having worked as operators, investors and clinicians within these industries, enabling them to maintain a sharper talent map than traditional database-driven recruitment approaches.

With headquarters in both New York and London, Proxima Search provides clients with genuine cross-Atlantic reach and the capability to assemble leadership teams spanning different regulatory frameworks, capital markets and clinical cultures. The company measures success on five-year tenure rather than placement closure, offering a 12-month replacement guarantee on every placement and providing weekly transparency on pipeline development. Clients choose Proxima for its sector-deep specialisation, retained and exclusive engagement model, and commitment to building leadership teams that remain in position through subsequent funding rounds and company milestones.