Équipe de direction

Christopher Simon a été nommé PDG d'Haemonetics le 16 mai 2016. Il était auparavant Directeur Associé Senior au sein du cabinet de conseil McKinsey & Company ,où il a dirigé le pôle international dédié à l'équipement médical. Il possède plus de vingt ans d'expérience dans le développement et la transformation de l'activité commerciale.

Chris Simon a été le principal partenaire pour l'analyse stratégique d'Haemonetics lancée en octobre 2015, ce qui lui a permis de mieux connaître notre activité commerciale et nos marchés. Il a participé, avec le comité de direction et le conseil d'administration, à l'élaboration du plan stratégique que nous mettons actuellement en place.

Il a rejoint McKinsey en 1993. Avant cela, il a été occupé des postes commerciaux et opérationnels chez Baxter Healthcare Corporation et a également été officier d'infanterie de l'Armée américaine en Corée et appartenu au 1er bataillon de Rangers.

Chris est titualire d'une licence B.S. en économie de la Wharton School de l'Université de Pennsylvanie et d'un MBA de la Harvard Business School.

Michelle Basil joined Haemonetics in March 2017 as Executive Vice President, General Counsel. She is responsible for Haemonetics' Legal, Compliance, Corporate Development
and Corporate Audits and Controls groups.

Prior to joining Haemonetics, Ms. Basil was a Partner and Chair of the Life Sciences Practice Group at the Boston-based law firm Nutter, McClennen & Fish where she was legal counsel to public and private companies and their investors, principally in the life sciences and medical technology industries. At Nutter, Ms. Basil’s practice focused on corporate and securities law, including mergers and acquisitions, strategic collaborations, capital markets transactions, corporate governance and other matters affecting publicly traded companies and their officers and directors.

Ms. Basil is admitted to the bar in Massachusetts and holds both a Bachelor of Arts and a Juris Doctor from the University of California at Berkeley.

Bill Burke a rejoint Haemonetics comme directeur financier en août 2016. Il est responsable de l'organisation mondiale des finances, qui inclut les relations avec les investisseurs. Auparavant, M. Burke a été responsable et Vice-président de l'intégration lors de la fusion entre Medtronic et Covidien, après avoir occupé durant plus de neuf années divers rôles de direction financière chez Covidien, notamment : Directeur financier Europe, Vice-président stratégie d'entreprise et gestion de portefeuille et Vice-président analyse et planification financière.

Avant de travailler pour Covidien, il a également occupé plusieurs postes dans les domaines de l'analyse et de la planification financières et des audits au sein du groupe Tyco Healthcare. M. Burke est titulaire d'un Bachelor of Science in Business Administration obtenu à l'Université Bryant, avec une spécialisation en comptabilité ; il est en outre expert-comptable certifié.

Anila Lingamneni joined Haemonetics in April 2020 as Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer. She oversees the Company’s Innovation Agenda and leads its research, development, software and medical and clinical affairs.

Previously, Ms. Lingamneni was Vice President, Renal R&D at Baxter International, where she was responsible for product portfolio delivering renal therapy solutions to dialysis patients, including devices, software, disposables and fluids. While there, she drove a globally distributed team of engineers and scientists to drive long-term product roadmap definition and therapy innovation and delivered critical launches. Before joining Baxter, Ms. Lingamneni held several roles at General Electric Healthcare, including Chief Technology Officer of the X-Ray Diagnostic Imaging Business Unit, where she led a global engineering function, rebalanced portfolio investments to drive value and managed expansion into emerging markets.

Ms. Lingamneni received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and a Master of Science in Mathematics from Birla Institute of Technology and Science in India. She also earned a Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering from Iowa State University. Ms. Lingamneni has received numerous awards, including the Healthcare Businesswomen's Association Outstanding Luminary Award and the Society of Women Engineers Women of the Year Award, and has authored numerous publications.

Josep Llorens joined Haemonetics as SVP, Global Manufacturing and Supply Chain in August 2018, and is responsible for expanding manufacturing capacity, upscaling strategic sourcing, driving greater throughput and improving product quality. Mr. Llorens brings over 20 years of experience in transforming supply chain, logistics and manufacturing operations to increase quality, improve customer satisfaction and reduce costs.

Previously, Mr. Llorens was Senior Vice President, Industrial Strategy and Advanced Manufacturing Engineering Leader for Philips Healthcare Diagnostic Imaging. Before that position, he held various Operations and Supply Chain roles within the Philips health care business, delivering supply chain and operations optimization in Diagnostics and Treatment, Patient Monitoring and Cardiac Care businesses and leading global teams focused on continuous improvement.

Mr. Llorens holds a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from University of Barcelona and a master's degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Barcelona. He also received an Executive Certificate in Technology, Operations and Value Chain Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Chad Nikel joined Haemonetics in 2009 as Site Director for the company’s Illinois facility, where he managed TEG operations, research and development, and marketing. In April 2011, he was promoted to Vice President, Global TEG, where he chartered a team in the global launch of the TEG product line and led an initiative to acquire a next generation technology for hemostasis monitoring. Mr. Nikel was promoted to Vice President, North America Blood Bank in September 2013, where he led commercial activities for the company’s Blood Center business and assumed global responsibility for the Whole Blood business in 2015. Mr. Nikel was promoted to Vice President, Global Blood Center, in 2017 and to his current role as President, Global Blood Center, in 2018.

Prior to joining Haemonetics, Mr. Nikel was Director, Strategy and Business Development at IPM Life Sciences. He previously held roles in research and development, operations and project management. Mr. Nikel began his career in the United States Air Force, where he served for five years and earned the rank of Captain.

Mr. Nikel holds a Bachelor of Science in both Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering from the United States Air Force Academy and an MBA from St. Mary’s University.

Kevin O’Kelly-Lynch joined Haemonetics in December 2016 as Senior Vice President, Global Business Services. He has an extensive and seasoned background in global business and shared services spanning customer service and tech support, finance, procurement, IT, fleet and sales operations. He brings to Haemonetics the knowledge and experience to help the company successfully transform the way it creates enabling platforms to deliver critical services across multiple functions.

Mr. O’Kelly-Lynch most recently served as Vice President, Medtronic Business Services, where he led the Global Business Services Integration activity post the acquisition of Covidien, and managed a service delivery team of over 600 deployed in the United States, Europe and India. Prior to Medtronic, he was Vice President, Assistant Treasurer at Covidien plc, where he was responsible for global treasury operations. He has also held the position of International Treasurer & Managing Director at Tyco International, and Transfer Pricing Manager and Management Accountant at Diageo plc. He began his career at Fujitsu.

Mr. O’Kelly-Lynch received a Bachelor of Science in Management from Trinity College, Dublin and is a Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA).

Jacqueline Scanlan joined Haemonetics in March 2017 as Senior Vice President, Human Resources. She is responsible for the global Human Resources and Communications functions, with a focus on driving talent management.

Previously, Ms. Scanlan was Corporate Vice President, Human Resources, North America at Novo Nordisk. In this role, she led all aspects of the organization and people strategy for North America, and served as a key member of the Executive Team. Her responsibilities included organization development as well as change and talent management. Prior to Novo Nordisk, she held various HR leadership roles at Campbell Soup Company, including International HR, Global Talent Management and Organizational Effectiveness, and HR Business Partner. Earlier in her career, Ms. Scanlan held HR and consulting roles at Bristol-Myers Squibb, DuPont Pharmaceuticals Company and Accenture.

Ms. Scanlan received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from St. Joseph’s University and a Master of Science in Organizational Dynamics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Stewart W. Strong joined Haemonetics in September 2019 as President, Global Hospital. He is responsible for overseeing the global Hospital business to drive market leadership and accelerate profitable growth. 

With more than 20 years of experience in Interventional cardiology and radiology, general and cardiac surgery and vascular access procedures, Mr. Strong has a robust background developing and leading high performance teams across multiple functions in the medical device space.

Prior to joining Haemonetics, Mr. Strong was President and General Manager of the Interventional Business Unit for Teleflex Incorporated. While in this role Stew helped to transform Teleflex into an established brand in the Interventional Cardiology space. Notably, Mr. Strong helped lead the successful $1 billion acquisition and integration of Vascular Solutions, Inc. in 2017 and the acquisition of Essential Medical in 2018. He previously held the role of Global Vice President and General Manager of Teleflex Cardiac Care and Vice President of Sales for their Vascular business unit. Mr. Strong joined Teleflex through the acquisition of Vidacare Corporation where he held the position of Vice President of Sales. Additionally, he has held leadership roles of increasing responsibility at AtriCure, Inc., Medtronic’s Heart Valve division and Johnson & Johnson’s Ethicon Endo-Surgery division.

David J. Wilson joined Haemonetics in September 2017 as President, Global Plasma. He is a proven business leader with more than 20 years of experience in senior leadership roles at medical technology companies. He is responsible for expanding and strengthening the company’s market position in the plasma industry.

Mr. Wilson was most recently President, Cordis (a Cardinal Health company), which he led from March 2015 through August 2017. Cordis is a nearly $1 billion business focused on cardiovascular devices that Mr. Wilson brought back to profitable sales growth during his tenure as President. Prior to Cordis, Mr. Wilson held positions of increasing responsibility at Johnson & Johnson driving sales, marketing, research and development, operations and business development. He also worked previously in plasma-based sciences both at Ethicon Biosurgery and at Cohesion Corporation.

Mr. Wilson received a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from Auburn University, a Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and an MBA from Columbia University.