Covidien (NYSE:COV) named Stacy Enxing Seng president of its $1.4 billion global vascular therapies business.

Enxing Seng, 47, will lead the division’s 4,000 employees, reporting to Peter Wehrly, president of the Mansfield, Mass.-based firm’s respiratory & monitoring solutions and vascular therapies division. She joined Covidien in July 2010 after the company spent $2.6 billion acquiring ev3 and its Pipeline embolization treatment for cerebral aneurysms.

Enxing Seng was a founding member of ev3 and led its peripheral vascular division, according to a press release.

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