Illumina (Nasdaq:ILMN) announced that it appointed Ankur Dhingra as CFO following the departure of Joydeep Goswami. The company also announced the appointment of Jakob Wedel as chief strategy and corporate development officer. Its c-suite continues to undergo a makeover following the appointment of a new CEO last year amid its long-running battle to acquire Grail. Goswami, […]
Personnel Moves
Precision Neuroscience picks Verily co-founder as new CTO
Brain-computer interface (BCI) maker Precision Neuroscience announced today that it named Brian Otis as its new chief technology officer (CTO). Precision Neuroscience designs the Layer 7 Cortical Interface, which features 1,024 tiny electrodes spanning an area of one square centimeter. The company embedded the electrodes in a flexible film that conforms to the brain surface. […]
GE HealthCare names new chief communications officer
GE HealthCare today announced it appointed Rana Strellis as chief corporate marketing and communications officer. Strellis replaces Danielle Halstrom who transitioned to the same role at the GE HealthCare Foundation two weeks ago. She will drive the company’s corporate brand, reputation and narrative forward internally and externally. “Rana brings a wealth of functional expertise in […]
New Olympus Americas CEO takes corner office after former CEO joins Grifols
Olympus Corporation of the Americas (OCA) has a new CEO after its former leader formally took up the same post at Grifols. Julien Sauvagnargues takes over as president and CEO, reporting to Olympus Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) Gabriela Kaynor. The change went into effect today after former OCA CEO and Olympus global COO Nacho Abia […]
President of Medtronic Gastrointestinal is leaving, replacement named
Gio Di Napoli, president of the Gastrointestinal business at Medtronic , announced today that he is departing his post at the medtech giant. His leaving marks the second departure of a business unit president at Medtronic this month. Ariel Mactavish, president of the company’s Respiratory Interventions unit, also announced that she was leaving the company. […]
Edwards Lifesciences’ chair Michael Mussallem retires from board
Edwards Lifesciences announced that Chair Michael Mussallem is retiring from the board of directors a year after stepping down as CEO. Mussallem became a non-executive chair of the Irvine, California-based company after he retired from his CEO post on May 11, 2023. He is expected to be succeeded by independent director Nicholas Valeriani, who will […]
Protembis raises $32.6M, adds Shockwave exec to board
Cardiovascular medical device maker Protembis announced today that it completed a $32.6 million (€30 million) Series B financing round. The Aachen, Germany-based company plans to use the funds to support enrollment for its PROTEMBO FDA investigational device exemption (IDE) trial. The trial evaluates the company’s embolic protection technology. European VC investors, including Segulah Medical Acceleration, […]
Bio-Rad names Roop Lakkaraju as CFO
Bio-Rad today announced it appointed Roop K. Lakkaraju as EVP and chief financial officer, effective April 15. Lakkaraju joins the clinical diagnostics and imaging systems company from Benchmark Electronics where he served as EVP and chief financial officer and was responsible for all finance-related functions since 2018. “We are pleased to welcome Roop Lakkaraju as […]
Insulet picks new CFO following McMillan’s move to 3M spinoff
Insulet announced today that it appointed Ana Maria Chadwick as its new EVP, CFO and treasurer. Chadwick’s appointment — which goes into effect on April 22, 2024 — follows an extensive search process conducted by Insulet. That search spanned nearly six months after former CFO Wayde McMillan left for 3M’s Solventum healthcare spinoff in October. […]
After Intuitive, Shockwave and Avail, Daniel Hawkins is now CEO at AI-powered MRI software startup Vista.ai
Avail Medsystems founder and former CEO Daniel Hawkins has a new job as president and CEO of MRI software startup Vista.ai. Palo Alto, California-based Vista.ai (founded and incorporated as HeartVista) makes AI-guided software for automating magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) exams. “Vista is the only MRI-related AI company that is not doing just post-processing — Vista […]
Medtronic’s Respiratory Interventions unit president is leaving
Ariel Mactavish, president of the Respiratory Interventions unit at Medtronic , announced that she is departing her post at the medtech giant. In a post on LinkedIn, Mactavish explained her decision to depart: “After 12 rewarding years, I have decided to leave Medtronic and I want to take the opportunity [to] share my deepest gratitude […]