Interview: Mark Augusti, CEO @ Bioventus, the New Smith & Nephew Biologics Spinout

Smith & Nephew Biologics new Joint Venture with Essex Woodlands – An Interview with Mark Augusti (OrthoSpineNews) We recently heard the news about Smith & Nephew selling 51% of their Biologics division to Essex Woodlands in a Joint Venture. We caught up with the new President and CEO of the new company and got his thoughts [...]

20 Leaders Who Have Made Recent Moves in Orthopedic Companies

20 Orthopedic & Spine Device Company Leaders on the Move (Laura Miller @ Beckers) Here are 20 orthopedic and spine device company leadership moves so far this year. LDR Holdings appointed Robert E. McNamara CFO, replacing Dennis Hynson who will continue to lead the company’s worldwide finance team as senior vice president of global finance. AlloSource hired Dale Binke, a veteran [...]

Details of Golden Parachute for Ousted Steve MacMillan, Former Stryker CEO

MacMillions for Stryker Separation (Walter Eisner @ OTW) Stryker Corporation and ex-CEO Stephen MacMillan have agreed to terms of separation. Ironically, terms of separation are what got the former Stryker boss into hot water in the first place, as some board members reportedly lost confidence in MacMillan over a marital separation. MacMillan’s wife filed for divorce [...]

Stryker CEO: Rumors Swirl Over MacMillans Departure

Stryker CEO: Rumors swirl over MacMillan’s departure (MassDevice) A report in the Wall Street Journal claims that Stephen MacMillan’s February 9th resignation from Stryker came after the company’s board learned of an affair with a former employee. Former Stryker (NYSE:SYK) CEO Stephen MacMillan’s departure from the company may have come as the result of an extramarital [...]

Alphatec Spine Reshuffles Its Executive Management

Alphatec Spine Announces Management Realignment to Prepare Company for Next Phase of Global Growth Dirk Kuyper Assumes Role of President, Global Commercial Operations to Drive Global Revenue Growth; Les Cross Assumes Role of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer to Drive Global Operating Excellence CARLSBAD, Calif., Feb. 28, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – Alphatec Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq:ATEC), the parent company of Alphatec [...]

10 Recent Leadership Changes at Orthopedic Companies

10 Orthopedic & Spine Device Company Leadership Moves (Laura Miller @ Beckers) Alphatec Spine named Mark Francois senior director of investor relations. Amedica named Eric Olson president and CEO of the company. Ascendx Spine elected Magnus Persson, MD, to its Board of Directors. InVivo hired former Stryker leader Brian Hess as director of product management and [...]

Michael Simpson Replaces Tony Viscogliosi as CEO of Small Bone Innovations

Michael P. Simpson Joins Small Bone Innovations as President and CEO (press release) Small Bone Innovations, Inc. (SBi), a leading, privately held orthopedics company focused exclusively on arthroplasty and joint-related trauma technologies and treatments for the small bones and joints, has appointed Michael P. Simpson as President and Chief Executive Officer, effective February 21, 2012. Mr. [...]

Stryker CEO, Steve MacMillan, Suddenly Resigns for “Family reasons”

   Stryker Seeks CEO After MacMillan’s Resignation for Family (press release) Stryker Corp. Chief Executive Officer Stephen MacMillan led the company’s expansion efforts and helped the maker of artificial hips and knees navigate an industrywide probe before his resignation yesterday for family reasons. Curt Hartman, the chief financial officer, will serve as interim CEO while Stryker [...]

New President at Amedica Spine, Startup in Salt Lake City

   press release Eric Olson is the new President of Amedica Spine, succeeding Ben Shapley. Eric Olson is the President of Amedica Spine Division. Mr. Olson has in excess of 20 years’ experience in the orthopaedic and spinal device markets. Most recently, he was the Executive Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Axial Biotech, [...]

12 Recent Leadership Moves at Orthopedic & Spine Companies

      12 Orthopedic & Spine Device Company Leadership Moves (Laura Miller @ Beckers) Here are 12 orthopedic and spine device company leadership moves. Alphatec Spine, a Carlsbad, Calif.-based spine device company, named Mark Francois senior director of investor relations. DJO Global elected Mike S. Zafirovski as non-executive chairman of its board. DJO Global also [...]

Q&a With Medtronics New CEO, Omar Ishrak

        MassDevice.com Q&A: Medtronic CEO Omar Ishrak (MassDevice) Medtronic CEO Omar Ishrak tells MassDevice.com about how he screens potential acquisitions, his plan to re-shape the company and handling the controversy over the Infuse spine treatment. Just a few days into his tenure as CEO of Medtronic (NYSE:MDT), Omar Ishrak was confronted with a major crisis: [...]

Vincent GardèS Is the New CEO at Vexim, French Spine Startup

    Vincent Gardès New CEO at Vexim (Biloine Young @ OTW) Vincent Gardès, a veteran of Stryker Corporation and Medtronic, Inc., has joined Vexim, a medtech company in Toulouse, France, as Chief Executive Officer. Gardes, with over 15 years of international experience in marketing, sales and general management in the medtech industry, is fluent in [...]

38 Orthopedic & Spine Device Company Executive Moves in 2011

     38 Orthopedic & Spine Device Company Executive Moves in 2011 (Laura Miller @ Beckers) Former president of medication delivery company Baxter Healthcare Peter Arduini was named CEO of orthopedic device company Integra LifeSciences. He replaced Stuart Essig, who became chairman of the company’s board. Wright Medical Group’s chief technology officer Frank Bono was fired for “failing to exhibit [...]

Lanx Spine Expands Its Facilities and Its Management Team

      Lanx Inc. Announces Corporate Expansion (press release) Expanded its corporate facility into a single 80,000-square-foot facility in Broomfield, CO for better surgeon training and prototyping capabilities. Various management changes: •    Wayne Chrystal is the new VP Operations. He has more than 20 years of operations experience and previously served as vice president of operations [...]

CEO Change at Integra LifeSciences, Peter Arduini in –> Stuart Essig Out

    Integra LifeSciences Announces Appointment of Peter Arduini as President and Chief Executive Officer; Stuart Essig Named Chairman of the Board (press release) Integra LifeSciences Appoints New CEO (Lauren Uzdienski @ HealthPointCapital) Integra LifeSciences appointed Peter Arduini President and Chief Executive Officer. He’s been promoted from the role of President and Chief Operating Officer, a post he’s held [...]

DJO Global Announces US Commercial Leadership Transition

 OUT! DJO Global Announces US Commercial Leadership Transition (press release) Andrew Holman, executive vice president of U.S. commercial operations at DJO Global, is leaving the company and Mike Mogul, current president and CEO, will take on his responsibilities, according to DJO’s press release.  Andrew Holman is leaving DJO Global to pursue other opportunities. SAN DIEGO, CA, [...]

Spine Startup Focusing on Disc Herniations, Intrinsic Therapeutics, Names Cary Hagan as CEO

      Intrinsic Therapeutics website Intrinsic Therapeutics, Inc. Names Cary P. Hagan as President & CEO (press release) WOBURN, Mass., Sept. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Intrinsic Therapeutics, a medical device company focused on developing therapies to address the spine market’s many unmet needs, today announced that Cary Hagan has been appointed President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Hagan brings [...]

5 Orthopedic Surgeon Appointments With Device Companies in 2011

    5 Orthopedic Surgeon Appointments With Device Companies in 2011 (written by Laura Miller @ Beckers) Here are five orthopedic surgeons who were appointed to leadership positions with device companies this year. Theralase Technologies appointed James Andrews, MD, founder of Andrews Institute for Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine in Gulf Breeze, Fla., as chairman of its Medical [...]

Veteran Orthopedic Executive David Floyd Named OrthoWorx CEO

      OrthoWorx website Former DePuy Orthopaedics CEO Floyd lands with OrthoWorx (MassDevice) David Floyd, the former CEO of DePuy Orthopaedics, starts a new gig today: CEO of OrthoWorx, an “industry, community and education initiative” that aims to boost the orthopedics cluster centered in Warsaw, Ind. Floyd stepped down as chief executive of the Johnson [...]

20 Orthopedic and Spine Device Company Executive Moves

      20 Orthopedic and Spine Device Company Executive Moves (written by Laura Miller @ Beckers) Here are 20 orthopedic and spine device company executives who were appointed to or resigned from their posts this year. Wright Medical Group’s chief technology officer Frank Bono was fired for “failing to exhibit appropriate regard for the company’s ongoing compliance [...]

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