Biolase (Nasdaq:BIOL) announced today that it appointed Jennifer Bright as its new CFO and Steven Sandor as its new COO.
Lake Forest, California-based Biolase — a developer of laser technologies for the dental space — made the promotions of both executives effective immediately. Both will report to Biolase President and CEO John Beaver.
Bright has served as VP of finance since April 2021 and will take on responsibilities as CFO including functional areas of finance, accounting, investor relations and assisting the executive management team in establishing long-range goals, strategies, plans and policies that drive results.
In a news release, Bright said she’s looking forward to collaborating with the teams across the company to drive continued commercial success, engage with the investment community, serve customers and patients.
“Jennifer is a highly valuable financial professional who has demonstrated strong leadership across the breadth of our business,” Beaver said in the release. “I’m very excited to further leverage Jennifer’s robust experience in corporate finance and accounting as we achieve Biolase’s mission and execute on our long-term strategy.”
Sandor has been with Biolase since 2019 and has served in a number of roles, the most recent being senior director of commercial operations and service. He has worked on developing long-term growth initiatives focused on leveraging talent, building robust commercial processes and scalability.
He noted that he’s confident that the combined effect of the talent, business strategies and further collaboration within the Biolase teams will increase capabilities. Sandor added that he looks forward to making Biolase lasers the “gold standard of care in dentistry.”
“Steven is a customer-focused sales and service leader who has demonstrated an exceptional ability to improve processes and drive results,” Beaver said. “Reporting to Steven will be the company’s sales, marketing, service, manufacturing, and distribution organizations. With Steven’s guidance and the high-performing leaders and team members reporting to him, I am confident this structure will bring even stronger communication, collaboration, and alignment across these key functions, resulting in our continued commercial success.
As part of this new structure, we will also increase our focus on the highly important dental service organization (DSO) market.”