SS Innovations today reiterated its first-quarter guidance as it continues to report additional installations of its surgical robot platform. The company develops the Mantra platform of surgical robots, with the latest version coming in the form of its Mantra 3. It hopes for approvals in the latter half of 2025. Mantra 3 provides capabilities for multi-specialty usage, […]
Personnel Moves
HeartBeam CEO joins board to support commercialization efforts
HeartBeam (Nasdaq:BEAT) announced today that it appointed CEO Robert Eno to its board of directors. The board elected to expand from eight to nine members as it looks to move toward commercial readiness. Santa Clara, California-based HeartBeam develops ECG technology that it’s preparing to bring to market. HeartBeam won FDA approval for at-home ECG technology […]
Precision Neuroscience strengthens leadership following FDA clearance for BCI tech
Precision Neuroscience announced today that it appointed two significant leadership figures to support its brain-computer interface (BCI) tech. The appointments come on the heels of the recent FDA 510(k) clearance for the Layer 7 cortical interface for BCI technology. The Layer 7 thin-film BCI features 1,024 electrodes embedded in a flexible film that conforms to the brain […]
Former Medtronic exec Rob ten Hoedt named chair at tricuspid repair company Coramaze
Coramaze Technologies announced that it appointed former Medtronic executive Rob ten Hoedt as the chair of its board of directors. This marks the second medtech board chair appointment for ten Hoedt after he retired from his post at the medtech giant last year. He agreed to become chair at spinal cord stimulation technology developer Onward […]
Symphony Robotics adds neurosurgeon as chief medical officer
Symphony Robotics announced that it appointed neurosurgeon Dr. Neil A. Martin as its chief medical officer (CMO). As CMO, Martin leads the advancement of the company’s robotic system for treating glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), among other conditions. Symphony Robotics develops an engine-free, non-linear, flexible micro-robotic system. It combines micro-robotic arms, real-time computer vision and state-of-the-art AI. […]
Ashley McEvoy named president and CEO at Insulet
A familiar name in medtech is taking over the corner office at one of the world’s largest diabetes technology developers, Insulet . Our sister site, Drug Delivery Business News, reports today that longtime Johnson & Johnson MedTech leader Ashley McEvoy was named president and CEO of the Acton, Massachusetts-based automated insulin delivery technology maker. McEvoy succeeds […]
Longtime Medtronic exec to become CEO at Olympus
Olympus announced today that it appointed Bob White, former Medtronic EVP, as its new CEO, effective June 1, 2025. White succeeds Yasuo Takeuchi, who took over as acting CEO in October 2024 after then-CEO Stefan Kaufmann resigned over accusations that he bought illegal drugs. Takeuchi spent more than four years as CEO before handing the […]
Integer to promote COO to corner office after CEO retires
Integer announced today that Joseph Dziedzic plans to retire as CEO and step down from the medtech contract manufacturing giant’s board later this year. Dziedzic plans to retire, effective Oct. 24, 2025. The company selected Payman Khales, its current COO, to take the corner office and join the board at that time. It expects Dziedzic […]
Dr. Kolaleh Eskandanian joins Compremium’s C-suite to lead new division
Compremium AG has hired Dr. Kolaleh Eskandanian as chief strategy and innovation officer and head of the new Division of Pediatrics and Special Populations. Eskandanian was previously VP and chief innovation officer at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C., and was also executive director of its Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation and founding […]
Boston Scientific says sales could grow up to 17% this year
Boston Scientific stock is up as company officials predict that the ongoing trade war won’t hinder double-digit sales growth this year. The news of upped full-year guidance — which also included Street-beating first quarter results — sent shares of BSX rose more than 5% to $100.28 apiece in morning trading today. (The S&P 500 was […]
Imperative Care has a new CFO
Imperative Care announced today that it appointed experienced finance leader Todd Van Horn as its new chief financial officer (CFO). Van Horn brings more than two decades of leadership experience in finance, business development, strategy, operations and organizational transformation. His experience spans multiple companies in the global medical device and life sciences spaces. Most recently, […]
