Welcome to June’s On Rotation!
Each month, we highlight some of the major job changes in the healthcare sector, from small startups bringing in new leadership to big orgs trading seasoned execs.
Here’s a noncomprehensive roundup of the past month’s career shifts.
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Robert Andtbacka: Repertoire Immune Medicines, a Flagship Pioneering-founded biotech company focused on programmable T cell-targeted immune medicines, announced June 4 that Andtbacka would be joining as chief medical officer. He most recently served in the same role at HiFiBiO Therapeutics, a clinical- stage biotherapeutics company.
Kate Benedict: On June 9, health tech company Medtronic announced Benedict as the new SVP and president of the company’s acute care and monitoring business.
Frank Chan: The last SVP and president of Medtronic’s acute care and monitoring business announced his departure three months ago on LinkedIn, and has since started as EVP and COO at another medtech company, Haemonetics.
JR Finkelmeier: After a year as chief commercial officer for remote cardiac monitoring platform Pacemate, Finkelmeier is becoming CEO. Current CEO and co-founder Tripp Higgins will become chair of the board of directors, the company announced June 5.
Sanjay Gurunathan: After almost 25 years in various executive roles at Sanofi, Gurunathan has left the biopharma company to lead vaccine and infectious disease R&D for GSK, according to Fierce Biotech.
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Chip Kahn: After 24 years, CEO of the Federation of American Hospitals will retire from his role at the end of the year, the trade association announced in an interview with Modern Healthcare on June 6.
Mike Kelliher: On June 2, biopharma company Ardelyx announced its former EVP of corporate development and strategy as its chief business officer.
Sari Miettinen: Navvis, a population health company, named the former Mass General Brigham exec as market president and physician executive on June 3. She will help guide the company’s partnership with Tufts Medicine, according to a press release.
Michelle Monaco: Telehealth and virtual care solutions provider Wheel tapped Monaco as SVP and head of product on June 1. She was most recently SVP of product and engineering at Truepill, a digital pharmacy services provider.
Jennifer Peña: Wisp, a telehealth company focused on women’s health care, announced the physician as its chief medical officer on June 10.
Chris Shibutani: After working as an anesthesiologist and then a Wall Street analyst, Shibutani will now become Bristol Myers Squibb’s new EVP and chief strategy officer, the company announced in a June 9 LinkedIn post.