MASSDEVICE ON CALL — GE Healthcare (NYSE:GE) has had to do some top-level reorganizing since losing yet another executive to Medtronic (NYSE:MDT), the Milwaukee Business Journal reported.
Medtronic has snagged 3 of GE’s top managers in the last 3 years. The most noteworthy pull was the 2011 hiring of former GE Healthcare president & CEO Omar Ishrak, now chairman and CEO at Medtronic. Medtronic’s most recent nab was Hooman Hakami, who Medtronic made executive vice president and diabetes group president in May.
Hakami left a vacancy in the role of CEO of GE’s detection and guidance solutions division, which GE filled with Steve Gray, who previously led the company’s molecular imaging and computed tomography division. Taking over Gray’s old job is Eric Stahre, who comes from GE’s computed tomography unit, according to the Journal.
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