MICRON PRODUCTS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- President
Mr. Laursen was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer and a director in November 2018. Mr. Laursen, formerly served as the Executive Vice President, Sales and Strategy of The Coghlin Companies, Inc. ("CCI") since January 2012. CCI is a privately held, time to market services company, offering engineering, prototyping and contract manufacturing of complex electro-mechanical and electro-optical devices and equipment for a variety of markets including military and medical devices. From January 2007 to June 2011 Mr. Laursen served as Executive Vice President of Business Development, Sales and Marketing for TC TECH, a company that has developed its very own system for the production of advanced plastic details. Operations are based on an IPR-protected induction technique that makes it possible to heat and cool material - rapidly and with high precision. Since October 2009, Mr. Laursen has also been a principal of MAKS, LLC, a project oriented company that provides strategic planning, business development, equipment sourcing, sales and systems implementation for the optical media industry. In addition to his expertise in business development, sales and marketing, strategic development on operations, Mr. Laursen brings to Micron over 25 years of experience focused on innovation in highly automated manufacturing environments in many industries such as medical devices, instrumentation, plastics, consumables and consumer products as well as experience in contract manufacturing.
Job Titles:
- SVP of Business Development
Mr. Soran has served as a director of the Company since December 8, 2017. He has served as Chairman of the Board since June 2019 He served as the CEO of Novaseek Research, Inc. ("Novaseek"), since August 2017. Novaseek is a provider of cloud-based Clinical Data Network for Research ("CDNR") services. Before Novaseek, he served from July, 2016 to July, 2017 as the CEO and from April, 2016 to July, 2016 as the President and Chief Operating Officer of Verity Health Systems, a Redwood City, California multi-facility hospital, and healthcare network. Mr. Soran previously served from July, 2014 to April, 2016 as COO and Executive VP at Tenet Healthcare Corporation's ("Tenet") Detroit Medical Center. He also served from August, 2013 to June, 2014, as president of Tenet's, Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital, DMC Surgery Hospital. Prior to Tenet, from April, 2006 to June, 2013, Mr. Soran served as CEO of Framingham, Massachusetts based MetroWest Medical Center, a Vanguard Health Systems facility. Vanguard was acquired by Tenet in 2013. Mr. Soran holds a Bachelor degree in Physical Therapy from Tel Aviv University in Israel and a Master's degree in Business Administration and Management from Boston University-Metropolitan College. Mr. Soran brings over 20 years of experience in hospital operations, strategy and long-term planning, with the medical and medical device community, as well as in corporate financial and operational restructuring and private equity, making him well suited to serve as a director of the Company.