People In Places
People In Places
• Mark Pearon, PhD, has been elected to the board of directors of Base4 Bioinformatics (Toronto, Canada), a developer of data management tools for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. Until recently, Pearson was president of Molecumetics and has held executive positions with E.I. duPont de Nemours & Co. and its affiliates.
• Jon Rompon has been named vice president of the Healthcare Business Strategy Consulting Practice of First Consulting Group (Long Beach, CA), a provider of operations and information management services to various sectors of healthcare. Rompon most recently was director of Perot Systems’ SAI division.
• Sue Dubman has been named vice president, technology, and chief technology officer for Coi Solutions (New York). She will be responsible for the network/applications architecture, e-commerce and security/certification requirements for the World Telehealth Corp. Project, a global electronic healthcare service awarded to Coi. Most recently Dubman worked in the pharmaceutical, biotech and healthcare industries in the areas of clinical trial management, document management ad home health care systems.
• Albert Waxman, PhD, has been elected chairman of the board of directors for Health Hero Network (Mountain View, CA), a healthcare information services firm. Waxman is senior managing director at Psilos Group Managers LLC.
• Joel Birnbaum, senior vice president for research and development and director of HP Laboratories at Hewlett-Packard (Palo Alto, California) will resign those positions Feb. 2 and fill the newly created consulting position of chief scientist for HP. Dick Lampman, director of the Information Technology Center at HP Laboratories, and Edward Karrer, director of the Microelectronics and measurement Solutions Center at HP Laboratories, will manage HP Laboratories until a new director is named.
• Suzanne Sblendorio has been promoted from senior vice president of operations and development to chief operating officer for Home Care Information Systems (HCIS; Bloomfield, NJ), a division of Medic Computer Systems. Sblendorio will fill the executive management role at HCIS, following the resignation of Steven Griff as company president.
• Michael Savage has announced his resignation as president of MSI (Princeton, NJ), a business which develops molecular modeling, simulation and informatics software and services and is a unit of Pharmacopeia. He will also resign from the company’s board of directors but continue as a company consultant. His responsibilities will be handled by Saiid Zarrabian, the company’s chief operating officer.
• John Andrews has been promoted from vice president for sales and marketing to chief operating officer for Molecular Applications Group (Palo Alto, CA), a software-based life sciences company. Paul Thomas, PhD, has been promoted from research scientist to executive director of research. And Chris Lee, PhD, a company co-founder and director, has been named chief science advisor. Lee was vice president of research at MAG before becoming assistant professor in UCLA’s departments of chemistry and biochemistry.
• Roy Dorado has been named director of operations, and Timothy Ainoa has been named product marketing manager for Neoforma (Santa Clara, CA), , the developer of Neoforma.com, designed to generate qualified sales leads to healthcare vendors. Dorado previously was senior director of acquisitions and global integration of mergers for Autodesk. Ainoa was previously product manager for new and used equipment.
• Hanjoo Na and Michael Shin have been named senior staff engineers at Unigten (Fremont, CA), a designer and manufacturer of memory products for the medical and telecommunications industries. Na was previously a senior test engineer at Hundai Electronics Industries, while Shin previously was a senior design engineer at LG Semiconductor.
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