LivaNova PLC announced Ahmet Tezel, Ph.D., will join the Company as Chief Innovation Officer, effective May 13, 2024. In this newly created position, Tezel will leverage his career of more than 20 years in research and development (R&D) to establish an integrated innovation function at LivaNova that will accelerate the Company?s development of new technologies. In this capacity, Tezel will join the LivaNova Executive Leadership Team.

Tezel most recently served as Company Group Chairman at Johnson & Johnson MedTech, leading its Global R&D and Innovation teams. Throughout his career, he has held executive R&D roles at several healthcare companies, including Ethicon, Alcon Inc. and Allergan Inc., developing Class III implantables and complex capital equipment. Tezel earned a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in chemical engineering from Bogazici University in Türkiye and a doctorate in chemical engineering from the University of California-Santa Barbara, where he focused on transdermal drug delivery.