GF Health Products, Atlanta, has appointed James Hourigan as its new COO. Hourigan, who was most recently the COO for Inviro Medical, a manufacturer of medical safety devices, will be responsible for the company's day-to-day operations. According to Graham-Field CEO Bea Scherer, "Jim brings to Graham-Field a tremendous amount of executive experience in global logistics, manufacturing, group purchasing and customer focused marketing ... I know Jim's experience will allow Graham-Field to improve our efficiencies company-wide, which will result in improved customer service and profitability."
Bob Hoffman, RRT, has been appointed director of Nationwide Respiratory, Waterloo, Iowa-based VGM Group's alliance for respiratory providers. Hoffman comes from Allen Memorial Hospital's (Waterloo) Medical Equipment Services, where he was founder and manager. He also developed an HME company for Waterloo's Covenant Medical Center, owned his own HME company and has been a hospital staff RT.
Sarnova, a distributor of health care products in the emergency medical services, respiratory and surgical markets, has named Craig T. Davenport CEO. A 35-year veteran of the health care industry, Davenport most recently served as chairman, CEO and president of Endocare. His appointment follows the creation of Sarnova earlier this year through the merger of specialty health care products distributors Tri-anim Health Services and Bound Tree Medical.
San Diego-based SeQual Technologies has named Randy Steward as COO. Steward was most recently executive vice president and CFO for $2.5 billion consumer products company Spectrum Brands, which has operations in over 100 countries and distribution in more than a million stores. Brand names include Rayovac, Varta, Remington, Tetra and Cutter. "As corporate operations became more complex due to increased market share with the Eclipse 2 and a more diversified respiratory portfolio, SeQual recognized the value of adding a key executive management position," said Ron Richard, SeQual CEO. "We are pleased to have someone of Randy's experience and expertise come aboard." Steward has also served as president and general manager of the Thermoscan division of Braun, a Gillette subsidiary that developed a line of technology applied to human body temperature measurement.