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ResMed Hires First-Ever CTO
Bobby Ghoshal joins the company after serving as COO of Brightree, will help the company further establish itself in
connected healthcare.
Sleep and respira- tory equipment maker ResMed has hired onetime Brightree Chief Operating Officer Bobby Ghoshal to serve as its first-ever Chief Technology Officer.
Bachenheimer to Launch
Legislative Office for Brown &
Fortunato
Longtime industry advocate takes on a new position to open a DC-based government relations, legislative and regulatory office
equipment market and distributor channels for both domestic and global markets,” according to information released by Compass Health.
Todd Blockinger and Michael Scarsella will report to Zenko. Blockinger joins the team having served most recently as vice president of sales for the Med Group. Blockinger will be the vice president of strategic accounts at Compass Health. Scarsella has been named national
sales director for Compass Health, following his recent gig as NE regional vice president at Golden Technologies.
Peter Kaplan joins the growing team at Compass Health as well, coming aboard as the vice president of product management. Kaplan has 27 years of product and marketing manage- ment behind him at organizations including Philips Healthcare, Affymetrix and Foresight Science and Technology.
“We couldn’t be more thrilled to have these new additions to our team,” said Compass Health Brands President and CEO Stuart Straus in a prepared statement. “These talented leaders bring great passion and additional competencies to ensure our efforts to be the best customer-focused supplier for our dealer and distributor partners. We as a company will continue to invest in our customer-first culture to ensure the best customer experience, as it is all about our Customers and we are thankful for the opportunity to serve them.”
The spate of new hires follows a period of booming expansion for the company, which has acquired four other health businesses in a little more than a year. Compass Health Brands now comprises Carex Health Brands, Roscoe Medical, ProBasics and Meridian.
Additionally, Compass Health has more than doubled its field presence. n
In his new role, CTO Ghoshal will lead
for industry law firm.
Well-known HME
and CRT advocate and legislative expert Cara Bachenheimer is shifting gears from her longtime spot at Invacare Corp. to open a new Washington, D.C. office for industry law firm Brown & Fortunato, P.C.
Bobby Ghoshal moves ResMed’s global health- from being Brightree’s
care informatics and COO to ResMeds’s CTO. data analytics team to drive its cloud-based,
Longtime industry legislative relations expert Cara Bachenheimer.
digital health platforms, as well as invest in and develop emerging health technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Ghoshal more than 25 years’ experience in IT and high tech has most recently focused on the HME industry. Since 2016, he has served as the COO of post-acute software company Brightree, which ResMed acquired for $800 million in 2016, and prior to that, he served as ResMed’s vice president of IT from 2012 to 2016.
“Bobby has played several key roles in ResMed’s emergence as a world-leading connected health company this past decade, and we’re excited to appoint him as our new CTO,” said ResMed CEO Mick Farrell. “I have worked with Bobby for many years and he has incredible energy, integrity, intelligence and
an always-learning attitude that will guide ResMed’s emerging competence in artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep neural networks and other data analytics technologies to change the lives of millions more patients.”
“I’m excited to lead ResMed’s extraordi-
nary healthcare informatics team to help drive the value of connected health, leveraging the power of technology and data for the hundreds of millions of people who suffer from sleep apnea, COPD, and related chronic diseases worldwide,” Ghoshal said.
ResMed’s Healthcare Informatics team had been led by Raj Sodhi, current president of ResMed’s software-as-a-service businesses.
“I’m excited for Bobby’s return to the ResMed team,” Sodhi said. “With Bobby as CTO, I can be fully focused on expanding the capabilities of ResMed’s SaaS solutions for out-of-hospital care, while Bobby leads the next level of tech innova- tion, investments and partnerships that will take our digital health capabilities to new frontiers, for the ultimate benefit of patients, physicians, providers and payers.”
In her new posi-
tion, Bachenheimer will
expand her work in government relations, legisla- tive and regulatory matters on behalf of the Texas- based law firm. The office is slated to open June 1.
“We are excited that Cara is joining our firm. Cara’s expertise, coupled with our core practice areas, creates an exciting synergy,” said Jeff Baird, chair of Brown & Fortunato’s National Health Care Group, which works on behalf of various healthcare clients, including those in the HME industry.
Bachenheimer’s first client will be Invacare, where she served as senior vice president of government relations for longer than 14 years.
“I appreciate Invacare’s continued support as I step away to help other businesses understand the impact of and help shape future health care legis- lation and regulations,” Bachenheimer said. “I am pleased to continue to support Invacare’s govern- ment relations and lobbying efforts as a consultant for the company.”
Compass Health Hires New Executives to Drive Post- Acquisition Growth
New hires include Zenko as SVP of HME division, Blockinger as VP of strategic accounts, Scarsella as national sales director, and Kaplan as VP of product management.
Following a wave of acquisitions, Compass Health Brands is beefing up its leadership team to help manage a growing range of offerings.
Gregory Zenko is taking the reins as senior vice president of the HME division. Zenko has 20 years of experience in the medical device and equip- ment industry, with stints at Linet Americas and ScottCare Cardiovascular, among others. In his new role, Zenko will “lead the company’s strategy, development and position in the home medical
New additions to the Compass team (Clockwise from top left): Todd Blockinger, Peter Kaplan, Mike Scarsella, and Greg Zenko.
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