Becton, Dickinson and Company announced that Richard (Rick) Byrd has informed the company of his intent to retire after nearly 25 years with BD. Byrd is currently executive vice president and president of the Interventional Segment at BD, a position he has held since September 2022. During his tenure, Byrd held several leadership roles including worldwide president of Medication Delivery Solutions and worldwide president of Preanalytical Systems. Prior to joining BD in 2004, Byrd held various leadership and engineering positions across the medical device and advanced technology sectors.
Byrd will remain in his role through June 2026. BD intends to name a successor prior to Byrd's retirement date.
Becton, Dickinson and Company specializes in the development, manufacturing and marketing of medical and diagnostic equipment and materials. Net sales break down by family of products as follows:
- medical management systems (52.4%): medication delivery systems, pharmaceutical systems, advanced patient monitoring systems, etc.;
- interventional medical equipment (23.9%): surgical instruments, urological care products, etc.;
- diagnostic materials and clinical research and development tools (23.7%): automated systems for blood testing, mycobacteria detection, and molecular biology, medical biology devices, tools for studying genes and culturing cells, instruments for sorting and analyzing cells, monoclonal antibodies, etc.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (58.6%), Europe/Middle East/Africa (21.6%), Asia (14.2%) and other (5.6%).
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