Outset Medical, a commercial-stage company delivering new technology into the $13 billion global dialysis market, today announced the appointment of two new executives: Martin Vazquez, who joins the company as Chief Operating Officer, and Chad Hoskins as Vice President, Commercial and Corporate Strategy.
Vazquez is a seasoned med tech executive with more than 25 years of manufacturing, end-to-end complex supply chain management, product development and quality assurance experience, both in capital equipment and high-volume disposables. Most recently he served as Vice President, North America Operations and Global Sales and Operations Planning at Abbott Rapid Dx (formerly Alere) where he was responsible for a global supply network of rapid diagnostic test factories. Previously, he served as Worldwide Vice President, Manufacturing Management at Becton Dickinson where he led electromechanical and instrumentation manufacturing operations. Prior to BD, he was a senior operations leader at CareFusion overseeing a global network of manufacturing facilities, including a single facility producing over one million infusion sets per day.
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