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Detra Glinatsis Joins Alloy Therapeutics as Vice President, Business Development and Sales

Life Science Partner announces the recruitment of Detra Glinatsis to lead Alloy Therapeutics’ enterprise sales growth within the CDMO industry.

Alloy Therapeutics retained Life Science Partner to recruit their Vice President, Business Development and Sales to manage and accelerate their growth in biologics development services. Through a community of over 100 partners and developers, Alloy seeks to democratize access to pre- competitive tools, technologies, services, and company creation capabilities that are foundational for discovering and developing therapeutic biologics.

Detra Glinatsis

Life Science Partner is pleased to announce that Detra Glinatsis, former Senior Director, Business Development from AGC Biologics with experience building and leading a sales organization, will lead Alloy Therapeutics sales team.

“As a resourceful self-starter with a talent for streamlining sales processes, Glinatsis will be an instrumental addition for supporting Alloy Therapeutics’ rapid growth within the CDMO space.”

Tom Callaway, MD, Founder of Life Science Partner

In her new role at Alloy, Glinatsis will lead a team to build out the company’s customer base and sales infrastructure. She will identify and manage strategic partnerships, alliances, and joint ventures to contribute to Alloy’s expansion within the market. Additionally, Glinatsis will have the responsibility to facilitate Alloy’s participation in industry events, creation of collateral materials, and marketing of Alloy’s position within the CDMO space.

Prior to joining Alloy, Glinatsis served in various global business development roles for CDMOs and pharmaceutical companies including AGC Biologics, Sartorius, Rentschler Biopharma, Inventiv Health and Patheon Biologics. She holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology from the University of Akron.

About Life Science Partner

Life Science Partner is a specialized executive search firm that recruits transformational leaders for healthcare and life sciences companies. Our high-touch, partner-led process ensures an exceptional level of service, while our backgrounds as physicians and industry executives enable us to efficiently deliver the brightest candidates in the medical device, biopharmaceuticals, diagnostics, and healthcare technology fields.

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Mark Bogart joins B-Secur – Senior Vice President, US Healthcare

Life Science Partner announces the recruitment of Mark Bogart to serve as Senior Vice President, US Healthcare for B-Secur, a global leader in accelerating the quality of EKG signals to create highly accurate analytics for digital heart health.

Life Science Partner served as a strategic consulting and executive search partner of B-Secur to support their U.S. launch of their signature SaaS technology, HeartKey 2.0®.

Mark Bogart

This cloud-based solution will accelerate the convergence of medical and consumer health devices by offering a proprietary conditioning, FDA-cleared software to improve health algorithms and wellness insights. B-Secur’s innovative biosensing algorithms refine and enhance signal clarity on micro processing chips (implantable or wearable), for consumer technology partner servers providing novel insights. Their technology also serves as an adjunctive tool for accelerating the adoption of medical device company’s proprietary and patient-centric solutions.

With B-Secur’s technology in high demand to improve signal quality, Bogart will secure and expand relationships with US-based medical device and digital health providers. Additionally, Bogart will build and lead the team to grow the US commercialization opportunities with leading cardiac device companies seeking to bring their EKG monitoring solutions to ambulatory and at-home patients.

“With his subject-matter expertise in digital healthcare and remote patient monitoring combined with his exceptional career as a sales leader, Bogart is well-suited to accelerate B-Secur’s growth and establishment within the US market.”

Tom Callaway, MD, Founder of Life Science Partner

Bogart joins B-Secur after serving as Senior Vice President, US Healthcare for AliveCor, a medical device company that produces ECG hardware and software for mobile devices. Bogart led the healthcare division’s go-to-market strategy spear heading critical partnerships and novel acquisitions during his tenure. Earlier in his career, Bogart served in revenue-generating business development leadership roles at companies such as G Medical Innovations, Viterion Corporation, LifeWatch, ZOLL Medical and Boston Scientific.

Bogart holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Political Science from Lake Forest College.

About Life Science Partner

Life Science Partner is a specialized executive search firm that recruits transformational leaders for healthcare and life sciences companies. Our high-touch, partner-led process ensures an exceptional level of service, while our backgrounds as physicians and industry executives enable us to efficiently deliver the brightest candidates in the medical device, biopharmaceuticals, diagnostics, and healthcare technology fields.

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Stan Harris joins BioTissue – Vice President, Clinical Operations

Life Science Partner is pleased to announce the recruitment of Stan Harris as Vice President, Clinical Operations for BioTissue – the newly unified brand for TissueTech, Amniox, and Bio-Tissue.

BioTissue is an emerging biotechnology leader in utilizing the power of human birth tissue for regenerative healing to treat ocular surface disease and in surgical, chronic wound, and musculoskeletal applications.

Stan Harris

“For years, health care professionals have known our products—regardless of their specific applications—for providing mother nature’s most natural gift of healing so their patients can get back to the lives they love,” said Ted Davis, president, and CEO, BioTissue. “Our new, unified brand supports our entire pipeline of human birth tissue products to aid the treatment of wounds, musculoskeletal conditions, trauma-induced injuries, ocular surface disease, and burns.”

With nearly 40 years dedicated to the medical device industry and a focus on regulatory, quality, and clinical affairs, Harris brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the clinical operations team at BioTissue. The FDA and other global regulatory agencies are increasing the regulatory oversight of cell-derived therapies.  Harris will be responsible for developing and leading BioTissue’s clinical development with an emphasis in the ophthalmology, orthopedic and pain management indications.

Most recently Harris served as the Vice President, Regulatory, Clinical and Quality Affairs at Lifeline Scientific with previous clinical and regulatory roles at MiMedx, Integra Life Sciences, Ascension Orthopedics, and Wright Medical. “From his previous experience, Harris has direct relationships with key thought leaders in wound healing including excellent relations with the FDA, US, and European regulatory agencies for biological products,” states Tom Callaway, MD, MBA, Founder of Life Science Partner. “His experiences and enthusiasm will be ideal for BioTissue’s continued growth and product development.”

Harris earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from Mercer University. He completed Graduate Studies in Biotechnologies from the Georgia Institute of Technology. 

About Life Science Partner Executive Search

Life Science Partner is a specialized executive search firm that recruits transformational leaders for healthcare and life sciences companies. Our high-touch, partner-led process ensures an exceptional level of service, while our backgrounds in medicine, science, and industry enable us to efficiently deliver the brightest candidates in the medical device, biopharmaceuticals, diagnostics, and healthcare technology fields.

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Jo Carol Hiatt, MD, MBA joins the Medical Device Innovation Consortium as Vice President, Health Economics & Patient Value

Life Science Partner is pleased to announce the recruitment of Jo Carol Hiatt, MD, MBA to become the Vice President, Health Economics and Patient Value for the Medical Device Innovation Consortium (MDIC).

The MDIC brings together representatives of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), industry, non-profits, and patient organizations to improve the processes for development, assessment and review of new medical technologies. It is the only public-private partnership developed to work with government and industry stakeholders to advance solutions that promote patient access to innovative medical technologies.

Jo Carol Hiatt

Well-known across multiple industries, Dr. Hiatt will lead the MDIC’s efforts to increase predictability regarding the scientific and clinical evidence to support health economics assessment and the “reasonable and necessary” standard. She will act as the critical leader to interface between the MDIC, its members of the board, FDA, CMS, and other payors. In addition, she will manage the Health Economic and Patient Value committee to focus on projects that have a high priority for its members.

Previously, Jo Carol Hiatt was a Chair for the Inter-Regional New Technology Committee for Kaiser Permanente, where she led physicians and executives in reviewing evidence for new technologies. As an Assistant Medical Director, she acted as a liaison and strategist to produce recommendations for quality care based on available evidence and patient supply/demand forecasts. Her deep understanding of coverage processes as well as her connections with various organizations across the industry will make Hiatt a valuable addition to the MDIC leadership team.

Hiatt graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Arts, received her Medical Degree from Duke University, and completed her internship and surgical residency at University of California, Los Angeles. She also earned her MBA from UCLA in 2001.

About Life Science Partner Executive Search

Life Science Partner is a specialized executive search firm that recruits transformational leaders for healthcare and life sciences companies. Our high-touch, partner-led process ensures an exceptional level of service, while our backgrounds in medicine, science, and industry enable us to efficiently deliver the brightest candidates in the medical device, biopharmaceuticals, diagnostics, and healthcare technology fields.

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David Ramsingh, MD Joins Edwards Lifesciences as Vice President, Clinical & Medical Affairs – Critical Care

Life Science Partner is pleased to announce the recruitment of David Ramsingh as Vice President, Clinical & Medical Affairs – Critical Care at Edwards Lifesciences.

Edwards is a global leader in patient-focused medical innovations. Recently, their Critical Care division has expanded its role in AI-supported predictive software solutions that allow ICU physicians to make better patient care decisions. In doing so, the team sought an integrative leader to oversee clinical research activities, including clinical trials, data management, and systems development to help with future product approval. An anesthesiologist and researcher in hemodynamic monitoring and echocardiology, Ramsingh has a combination of skills which positioned him for this opportunity.

David Ramsingh, MD

Ramsingh will direct multiple functions within clinical and medical affairs, oversee research activities around clinical trials, data management, and system development for future product approvals. In addition, he will oversee Edwards’ high standard of professional education through its Global Professional Development program.

Ramsingh possess valuable skills and experience, having come from Loma Linda University and University of California at Irvine, where he developed an innovative teaching program for anesthesiologists to apply whole-body, point-of-care ultrasound exams. At Loma Linda, his research focused on the use of ultrasound technology to improve perioperative care.

As the Director of Clinical Research and Perioperative Ultrasound at Loma Linda University Medical Center, Ramsingh spent most of his time leading a research team that he developed to focus on hemodynamic monitoring devices, partnering with corporate sponsors such as Edwards, Masimo, and General Electric. Ramsingh earned his medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia. He completed his residency in anesthesiology at Loma Linda University, and he was a cardiothoracic fellow at the University of California in Los Angeles.

About Life Science Partner

Life Science Partner is a specialized executive search firm that recruits transformational leaders for healthcare and life sciences companies. Our high-touch, partner-led process ensures an exceptional level of service, while our backgrounds as physicians and industry executives enable us to efficiently deliver the brightest candidates in the medical device, biopharmaceuticals, diagnostics, and healthcare technology fields.

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Ron Hebert Joins Vivex Biologics as Vice President, Marketing

Life Science Partner is pleased to announce the recruitment of Ron Hebert as Vivex Biologics’ Vice President of Marketing.

Vivex Biologics, a leading regenerative medicine company that markets tissue technology products and cellular therapies. They focus on orthopaedic applications with an emphasis on spine related therapies, and have developed a diverse portfolio of current products including cellular bone matrices, amniotic tissue, general orthopaedic treatments, and sports medicine products to meet the therapeutic demand in the areas of spine, dental, sports medicine, and wound care.

The next stage of the company’s growth is the launch of its new product, VIA Disc.

Ron Herbert

This viable allograft is delivered by a minimally invasive procedure and will be used for the treatment of Degenerative Disc Disease (DDD). As the company continues to grow in the spine and biologics space, it sought a talented Vice President, Marketing who could lead the branding campaigns and support the efforts of the geographic and product-focused sales forces.

Hebert was the Vice President, Marketing, Communications, and Growth Initiatives at MEDNAX, a physician-led healthcare organization that partners with hospitals and health systems to provide a wide range of clinical services. Coming into one of the largest physician-owned/operated national staffing companies, Hebert refocused the company strategy to the hospital-customer and provided them with proof of value. He also created programs that productized services such as women/children, anesthesia, and ENT/plastics specialists.

He also spent a majority of his marketing career at Beckman Coulter serving as Director of Global Strategic Marketing and Global Product Management and Strategy. Hebert’s notable accomplishment during his time here was being able to provide innovation within the traditional product portfolio of the hematology unit.

With the arrival of Hebert, Vivex will gain a marketing leader, an integrative thinker that focuses on the customer needs, a person with a demonstrated track record of successful product launches, and a strong communicator. By utilizing Hebert’s expertise in hospital-based marketing, Vivex Biologics hopes for continued growth of its new products and a skilled manager of its existing lines.

About Life Science Partner

Life Science Partner is a specialized executive search firm that recruits transformational leaders for healthcare and life sciences companies. Our high-touch, partner-led process ensures an exceptional level of service, while our backgrounds as physicians and industry executives enable us to efficiently deliver the brightest candidates in the medical device, biopharmaceuticals, diagnostics, and healthcare technology fields.

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Dave Booth Joins Be The Match as Vice President of Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs

Life Science Partner is pleased to announce the recruitment of Dave Booth as Vice President of Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs with Be The Match.

Booth is a seasoned quality executive with a broad background in building and leading global quality teams within the medical device industry. At Smiths Medical, Booth was Head of Quality for the Infusion Systems Business Unit, responsible for both Pre-market and Post-market Quality, overseeing customer-facing quality concerns, and establishing a new product quality leadership function.

Dave Booth

At Greatbatch Medical, he created new processes and an organization for Design Assurance and Product Monitoring for their Orthopedic business. Previously, Booth led the Quality Systems and Compliance organization within Medtronic’s Cardiac Disease Rhythm Management business.

Booth understands how to build and lead a quality organization and to prepare a company to enter a new regulatory environment. Throughout his career, Booth has overseen teams ranging from small post-market groups to large, multi-site Operations Quality teams. Trained as a statistician, Booth often approaches problem solving by applying his analytical skills in conjunction with insights stemming from his extensive experience in the industry.

Booth will play a pivotal role in helping Be The Match during its next stage of growth and development. The organization is best known as the world’s largest provider of unrelated matched bone marrow donors for life-saving therapies. As allogenic-derived cell therapies are revolutionizing the treatment of cancer and genetic illnesses,

Be The Match is preparing to become the preferred supplier of hematopoietic cells to enable these therapies. Booth’s leadership skills and his years of experience managing interactions with the FDA render him well-suited to prepare Be The Match for the regulatory rigors of FDA oversight they will face as they move into the cell therapy space.

About Life Science Partner

Life Science Partner is a specialized executive search firm that recruits transformational leaders for healthcare and life sciences companies. Our high-touch, partner-led process ensures an exceptional level of service, while our backgrounds as physicians and industry executives enable us to efficiently deliver the brightest candidates in the medical device, biopharmaceuticals, diagnostics, and healthcare technology fields.

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Balakrishnan Shankar Joins Canary Medical as Vice President, Operations

Life Science Partner is pleased to announce the recruitment of Balakrishnan Shankar to Canary Medical, where he will serve as Vice President of Operations.

Canary Medical is an innovative medical technology company commercializing smart implants in the orthopedic, cardiovascular, and aesthetic markets. The company integrates a sensor and microprocessor system into FDA-cleared implantable medical devices to generate real-time insights about the performance and safety of these products.

In his new role, Shankar will lead all operational aspects including manufacturing and supply chain for Canary Medical’s smart medical implants.

Balakrishnan Shankar

Shankar’s 20+ years of leadership in the development and commercialization of active implantable devices as well as their associated software will be an invaluable asset as Canary Medical prepares for the launch of the company’s connected devices.

Shankar previously served as Vice President of Software Development for Medtronic’s Cardiac Rhythm and Heart Failure division, where he led software development across all product lines, including the CareLink patient monitoring system. He was previously at Nevro and St. Jude Medical where he led software product development, operations, and technology development, and systems engineering.

“Shankar has seen the entire spectrum of implantable, electronic medical devices – from concept and design to manufacturing/operations and systems integration,” notes Tom Callaway, Founder of Life Science Partner. “He is the world’s expert for taking connected medical devices from concept to commercialization. His deep technological and operational expertise will be a tremendous asset to Canary Medical as the company continues to develop and commercialize connected implantable devices.”

Shankar earned his MS in Biomedical Engineering from John Hopkins University and his BS in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology.

About Life Science Partner Executive Search

Life Science Partner is a specialized executive search firm that recruits transformational leaders for healthcare and life sciences companies. Our high-touch, partner-led process ensures an exceptional level of service, while our backgrounds as physicians and industry executives enable us to efficiently deliver the brightest candidates in the medical device, biopharmaceuticals, diagnostics, and healthcare technology fields.

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Chie Iwaishi Joins Edwards Lifesciences as Vice President, International Regulatory & Clinical Affairs

Life Science Partner is pleased to announce the recruitment of Chie Iwaishi to Edwards Lifesciences (NYSE:EW) as Vice President, International Regulatory and Clinical Affairs, where she will lead the expansion of this Irvine-based company in the Japan and Asia-Pacific region.

Iwaishi’s three decades of leadership in regulatory and clinical affairs will be an invaluable asset for Edwards Lifesciences, a global leader in in patient-focused medical innovations for structural heart disease, critical care and surgical monitoring. The company’s heart valve offerings encompass both surgical and transcatheter therapies for heart valve replacement and repair.

Chie Iwaishi

In addition, Edwards’ pipeline of future technologies is focused on the less invasive repair or replacement of the mitral and tricuspid valves of the heart, which are more complex and more challenging to treat than the aortic valve that is currently the focus of many of the commercially approved valve technologies.

Iwaishi is a distinguished expert in regulatory and clinical affairs, with particular expertise in Japan, China, and the broader Asia-Pacific region. She possesses keen knowledge of the regulatory and cultural paradigms, launched the first drug eluting stent in China, and has considerable senior global leadership experience and business acumen. In her new role, she will spearhead Edwards Lifesciences’ regulatory and clinical programs in Asia, which the company has identified as a key strategic initiative.

“Iwaishi’s deep understanding of regulatory affairs, with many successful PMAs and 510ks, and her well-practiced leadership of large globally-dispersed teams will be a tremendous asset to Edwards Lifesciences as they continue to expand on a global stage,” notes Tom Callaway, President and Founder of Life Science Partner.

Iwaishi joins Edwards Lifesciences from Abbott (formerly Alere Inc.), a rapid point-of-care diagnostic tests manufacturer, where she served as Vice President, Regulatory Affairs Asia Pacific and led their global strategy development and regulatory compliance in Japan, China, Korea and India. She also led the regulatory diligence for Alere’s $1.3 billion acquisition. Earlier in her career, Iwaishi served in regulatory affairs roles of escalating responsibility, working primarily with Class II and Class III medical devices in the cardiovascular space.

About Life Science Partner Executive Search

Life Science Partner is a specialized executive search firm that recruits transformational leaders for healthcare and life sciences companies. Our high-touch, partner-led process ensures an exceptional level of service, while our backgrounds as physicians and industry executives enable us to efficiently deliver the brightest candidates in the medical device, biopharmaceuticals, diagnostics, and healthcare technology fields.

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Megan Eckerman Joins CryoLife as Vice President, Global Marketing

Life Science Partner is pleased to announce the recruitment of Megan Eckerman to CryoLife (NYSE:CRY) as Vice President of Global Marketing.

Eckerman will lead the unification of this Atlanta-based company’s US and European marketing efforts under a common worldwide strategy as CryoLife continues its transformation from an allographic human tissue provider to a global aortic cardiovascular device leader.

CryoLife is a leader in cryogenically preserved human tissues for cardiovascular applications, as well as heart valves and other medical devices for blood vessel repair.

Megan Eckerman

With a focus on aortic technologies, the company has recently expanded their offerings to heart valves and stent grafts with the acquisition of On-X Life Technologies and JOTEC stent graft systems, respectively.

Ms. Eckerman joins CryoLife from Bolton Medical, an aortic stent graft manufacturer, where she served as Vice President of Global Marketing and was instrumental in the merger of Bolton Medical and Terumo’s subsidiary Vascutek under the brand Terumo Aortic following Bolton’s 2017 acquisition by the Japanese medical equipment company. Her earlier career features progressive sales and marketing roles with Medtronic and Intuitive Surgical, as well as service as Chief of Satellite Launch Operations in the United States Air Force.

“Megan’s deep understanding of cardiovascular technologies and their various worldwide customer bases will be a tremendous asset to CryoLife as they continue to reinvent themselves on a global stage,” notes Tom Callaway, MD, MBA, Founder of Life Science Partner. “I am confident her high emotional intelligence and thoughtful leadership philosophy will help her mobilize her team toward this ambitious goal.”

Ms. Eckerman earned her BS in Kinesiology from Indiana University and her MBA from the University of Colorado.

About Life Science Partner Executive Search

Life Science Partner is a specialized executive search firm that recruits transformational leaders for healthcare and life sciences companies. Our high-touch, partner-led process ensures an exceptional level of service, while our backgrounds as physicians and industry executives enable us to efficiently deliver the brightest candidates in the medical device, biopharmaceuticals, diagnostics, and healthcare technology fields.

About CryoLife

Headquartered in suburban Atlanta, Georgia, CryoLife is a leader in the manufacturing, processing, and distribution of medical devices and implantable living tissues used in cardiac and vascular surgical procedures.  CryoLife markets and sells a highly competitive product portfolio focused on treating aortic disease in more than 80 countries worldwide.

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