Medartis Holding AG Announces Management Appointments
April 17, 2020 at 09:00 pm IST
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Medartis Holding AG has appointed Lisa Thompson as a new member of the Executive Management Board and President North America effective April 27, 2020. Lisa Thompson has more than twenty years of management and sales experience in osteosynthesis of the upper and lower extremities. In addition, she has a profound understanding of the largest and most important market for the industry, the US, for which she will assume responsibility at Medartis. From 2005 to 2011, Lisa Thompson held various management positions at Stryker Orthopaedics, including Vice President Global Marketing in Trauma & Extremities and Senior Director Marketing in US Extremities, where she achieved very strong and sustainable growth in the newly established extremities business (upper extremity and foot & ankle) within five years. From 1989 to 2005, she was Global General Manager Bone Growth Technologies at EBI Medical Systems and held various management positions in the areas of marketing and products. She started her career as Sales Executive in the medical sector. Lisa Thompson is a US citizen, holds a bachelor's degree in fine arts from Fairleigh Dickinson University, Rutherford NJ, and has completed various management training courses, including at Harvard Business School, Boston. The company at its AGM held on April 17, 2020 appointed Marco Gadola as new, independent member of the Board of Directors for the next term of office.
Medartis Holding AG is a Switzerland-based holding company of the Medartis Group, which is engaged in manufacturing medical devices and implants. The Group develops, manufactures and distributes to surgeons, hospitals and medical centers titanium screws, plates, surgical instruments and system solutions for internal fracture fixation. Medartis AG, the Company's wholly-owned subsidiary, has developed such technologies as TriLock for locking the screw into the plate, SpeedTip, a screw that does not require pre-drilling, and HexaDrive self-holding screw and screw-driver. It has two product lines. The APTUS product line comprises upper and lower extremities products for hand, wrist, elbow, shoulder and foot fixation. The MODUS line combines products dedicated to cranio-maxillofacial (CMF) surgery. The Group's products are sold globally in more than 30 countries, including Germany and the United States, either directly through its sales subsidiaries, or through third-party distributors.
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