Newsmakers

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.