Ablative Solutions tapped 30-year industry veteran Kate Rumrill, the former chief executive at NeoSync, to be its new president & CEO. Rumrill, whose resume includes stints at Covidien, Aspect Medical Systems and Eli Lilly, is slated to keep her seat on NeoSync’s board, San Jose, Calif.-based Ablative Solutions said. The company makes the Peregine renal […]
Cutera snags Vyaire Medical’s Mowry for CEO | Personnel Moves, July 9, 2019
Cutera (NSDQ:CUTR) said today that it snagged Vyaire Medical CEO David Mowry to be its new CEO, effective immediately. The aesthetic device maker in January fired president & CEO James Reinstein after the company missed expectations for its 2018 top line, naming COO Jason Richey as interim chief executive. Mowry led Tornier to a $3.3 billion […]
Invacare lays of 75, shuffles sales deck
Invacare (NYSE:IVC) said yesterday that it’s planning to lay off nearly 2% of its workers and named new leaders for its North American sales operation. The Elyria, Ohio-based wheelchair maker said it laid off 75 workers, or about 1.8% of its workforce, in North America and Europe; as of Dec. 31, 2018, the company had 4,200 […]
Intersect ENT lures Hologic’s West for CEO | Personnel Moves, June 28, 2019
Intersect ENT (NSDQ:XENT) yesterday named Hologic (NSDQ:HOLX) executive Tom West to be its new president & CEO effective July 22. West, who has been president of Hologic’s diagnostics solutions division since October 2014, is a Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) veteran, Menlo Park, Calif.-based Intersect ENT said. The company in May tapped lead director Kieran Gallahue to […]
Report: Sharpless, two others in running for FDA chief | Personnel Moves, June 25, 2019
Acting FDA commissioner Dr. Ned Sharpless and at least two others are reportedly in the running to lead the federal safety watchdog, including a Harvard dermatology professor and a physician at a Texas cancer center. Sharpless, the former head of the National Cancer Institute, took over from Dr. Scott Gottlieb as acting commissioner in April. […]
Zimmer Biomet taps medtech vet Upadhyay for CFO | Personnel Moves June 20 2019
Zimmer Biomet (NYSE:ZBH) said yesterday that longtime finance chief Daniel Florin is stepping down effective July 1, to be replaced as CFO by medical device veteran Suketu Upadhyay. Florin is slated to stay on in an advisory capacity “for a period following the succession,” Warsaw, Ind.-based Zimmer said. Upadhyay’s CV includes stints Bristol-Myers Squibb, Endo International, […]
Tevosol taps Organ Recovery Systems vet Mills for CEO | Personnel Moves, June 17, 2019
Tevosol said it named Organ Recovery Systems veteran Ron Mills to be its new CEO. “Ron knows our technology and our market,” co-founder & CSO Dr. Darren Freed said in prepared remarks. “He brings a wealth of relevant experience to our team and adds a spark of creativity to drive the next exciting stage of […]
Conventus Ortho taps Epstein as CEO | Personnel Moves – June 5, 2019
Conventus Orthopaedics said today that it named Rick Epstein as its new chief executive officer and board member. The Minneapolis-based company said that Epstein has more than 30 years in executive leadership roles, having previously served as chief executive officer for Omni Life Sciences. “Rick has a track record of accelerating businesses through a focus […]
Ex-Abiomed exec looks to keep wrongful termination suit alive
A former Asia VP for Abiomed (NSDQ:ABMD) is hoping to keep a wrongful termination lawsuit alive in a U.S. federal appeals court. In January Keisuke Suzuki lost a lawsuit seeking $2.1 million in damages for unfair termination and denial of an options deal tied to Japanese approval of Abiomed’s Impella heart pump. The Danvers, Mass.-based company […]
Judge: Ex-Abbott worker can’t sue twice
A federal judge in Massachusetts yesterday shot down a second lawsuit brought against Abbott (NYSE:ABT) by a former medical liaison over her claim that the company fired her after she blew the whistle on off-label and pre-approval stent promotion. Ebonia Elliott-Lewis, formerly a regional science manager for Abbott Vascular based in Boston, first sued the company […]
Philips Medical Systems accuses ex-enginer of pilfering trade secrets
A former engineer at Philips Medical Systems in Illinois allegedly transferred confidential trade secrets and then tried to destroy the evidence, the company said in a lawsuit filed last week. The U.S. unit of Dutch healthcare conglomerate Royal Philips (NYSE:PHG) accused Jose Buan of downloading a large trove of proprietary, confidential information around the time […]
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