Concordia Fibers adds key hires to growing medical team
02 Oct '07
2 min read
Concordia Manufacturing LLC has announced the appointments of Debra Masso and Ian Christianson to its medical team. The two talented additions come to Concordia Fibers with stablished relationships in the medical industry and will be integral to helping the company attract other new talent as well as new business opportunities.
“It is essential for Concordia to develop, hire, and retain qualified resources who understand our medical device customers' requirements for product safety and efficacy and who can assure continued compliance with established quality systems,” commented Art Burghouwt, Executive Vice President Medical.
“The most critical resource areas for Concordia Medical's success, besides continuing to develop our manufacturing associates, are in operations, quality/regulatory, and product/process development engineering.”
As medical manufacturing manager for the company's new medical division, Debra Masso will be focused on building and managing systems to partner with established companies and manufacture medical implants.
Masso has 16 years of experience in medical device manufacturing and comes to Concordia Fibers with extensive experience managing clean room medical device assembly and manufacturing as well as developing specialty sutures and fibers.
Additionally, Ian Christianson recently joined Concordia Fibers as manager of quality assurance and regulatory affairs for the company's new medical division and will be responsible for ensuring that the company's customers' products and services comply with the regulatory requirements of the medical device industry.