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News
MiMedx Hires Louise Focht as Senior Vice President, Extremities Otheropedics
Tampa FL, November 26, 2007MiMedx, Inc., a development-stage medical device company, today appointed Louise Focht to serve as Senior Vice President of Extremities Orthopedics. Ms. Focht will develop and manage all aspects of their extremities program including regulatory affairs, quality assurance, product development and intellectual property evaluation.
"We are excited to have Ms. Focht join our team of professionals," said Tom D'Alonzo, CEO of MiMedx. "Louise brings rich experience in helping similarly sized companies expand their presence in the market through the establishment of a professionally designed and executed regulatory program."
Ms. Focht has 22 years of orthopedic experience, spending the last 15 in extremities. She has held engineering, quality assurance, research and product development positions with Sutter Corporation, Avanta Orthopaedics, Futura Biomedical, Nexa Orthopedics and Tornier. She was President of Avanta from 1999 to 2002. She was responsible for the introduction of 14 new extremities products, and is considered an industry expert in regulatory affairs. Ms. Focht has been board member of the Orthopedic Surgical Manufacturers Association and the American Foundation for Surgery of the Hand.
About MiMedx, Inc.
Founded in 2006, MiMedx, Inc. is a development-stage Florida corporation with technology focusing on biomaterials for soft tissue repair, such as tendons, ligaments and cartilage, as well as other biomaterial-based products for other medical applications. The company, based in Tampa, Florida, holds an exclusive, worldwide license from the Shriner's Hospital for Children and the University of South Florida Research Foundation for certain nordihydroguaiaretic acid (NDGA) technology. MiMedx is targeting this proprietary technology for a number of diverse medical applications.
MiMedx, Inc. also has a wholly-owned subsidiary, SpineMedica, LLC, based in Atlanta, Georgia, led by an industry veteran, R. Lewis Bennett. MiMedx completed an acquisition of SpineMedica Corp., in July, 2007. SpineMedica, a Florida limited liability company, is a development-stage company focusing on the commercialization of medical device technologies for application in the spine and chronic back pain. SpineMedica's goal is to acquire promising technologies in this field through licensing arrangements and develop and commercialize such technologies.
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