Former Accuray (NSDQ:ARAY) CEO Euan Thomson was named interim CEO at AliveCor following the departure of Daniel Sullivan after just 4 months on the job.
Thomson, a partner at Khosla Ventures, an investor in AliveCor’s Series B funding round.
He’s AliveCor’s 3rd CEO since December 2012, when Judy Wade was given the corner office. Sullivan was named CEO back in April.
AliveCor did not give a reason for Sullivan’s departure. The San Francisio-based company makes a small ECG sensor for the iPhone.
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TeraRecon calls on a former employee to take over as senior VP
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New face on the board of Lombard Medical
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BioLife Solutions and LoneStar Heart Inc. Cohen was the CEO of Vessix Vascular before it was acquired by Boston Scientific in 2012.
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OrthoSensor names a legal expert to the board of directors
OrthoSensor pulled out a chair at the board table for Steven Epstein, a founder of the law firm Epstein Becker & Green. Epstein is an expert life science company consultant, and formerly consulted with the Health Maintenance Organization Service, Health Services and Mental Health Administration, U.S. Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare.
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