Langer hires Kathryn Kehoe as Senior Vice President
18 Jan '06
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Langer Inc is pleased to announce the hiring of Kathryn Kehoe as a Senior Vice President, Operations and Strategy. Ms. Kehoe will be responsible for company-wide strategic planning, organizational development, and certain U.S. operations.
Gray Hudkins, the Company's President and CEO, commented, “Kathy has a long track record of providing leadership during periods of corporate change and growth, and I believe she is uniquely qualified to help us reach our goals in that regard.
She brings depth of business and management expertise to Langer derived from positions she held at premier companies in healthcare and healthcare-related businesses, including NovaCare, Bristol Myers Squibb Company and Johnson & Johnson.
In her most recent corporate role at NovaCare, she was the Senior Vice President, Human Resources and an Executive Committee member, and an operating executive and officer of a subsidiary employee services company, and participated in the integration of over one hundred acquired companies into NovaCare.
Since leaving NovaCare in 2000, Kathy has owned and managed a consulting firm which provided corporate strategic planning, organizational development, and acquisition due diligence and integration planning services. We are very pleased to add Kathy's experience and expertise to the management team and we look forward to working with her.”
Langer, Inc., together with its wholly owned subsidiary Silipos, Inc., designs, manufactures and distributes high quality medical products targeting the orthopedic, orthotic and prosthetic markets.
In addition, the Company offers a diverse line of skincare products for the medical and therapeutic markets. The Company sells its products primarily in the U.S. and Canada as well as in more than 30 other countries to national, regional, international and independent medical distributors and directly to healthcare professionals.