Key Management
Corporate officers and other key members of the management team collectively have more than 100 years of experience in the medical device and pharmaceutical industries. Their backgrounds cover all facets of these businesses, including product development, manufacturing, quality assurance, regulatory affairs, global sales and marketing, and customer service and support.
Peter Nolan
President & Chief Executive Officer
In September 2008, Peter Nolan was appointed the President and Chief Executive Officer of Safety Syringes, Inc. Mr. Nolan joined Safety Syringes, Inc. as the Chief Operating Officer in June 2007, with responsibilities of Quality Assurance, Manufacturing and Product Development activities.
Mr. Nolan has held senior executive positions in market leading medical device companies for the last 14 years. Prior to joining Safety Syringes Inc. Mr. Nolan was corporate vice president of global operations with Advanced Medical Optics, a $1 Billion global market leader in ophthalmic medical products.
Previous to AMO, Mr. Nolan spent 9 years with GN ReSound Corporation, a global leader in hearing aids. At GN ReSound, he held various roles including: senior vice president global operations and vice president/general manager of ReSound Ireland Ltd. where he started up a manufacturing operation from a greenfield site.
Prior to that Mr. Nolan spent 10 years with Wang Laboratories, based in Ireland, where he rapidly progressed in the organization and eventually became General Manager.
Earlier in his career Mr. Nolan held various manufacturing positions with Digital Equipment International B.V., Varian Instruments, Ltd., and Westinghouse Electronics Ltd.
Mr. Nolan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Production Engineering from the University of Limerick, Ireland.
Angela M. Smoley
Chief Financial Officer
Angela Smoley was named Safety Syringes, Inc.'s Chief Financial Officer in 2005. Ms. Smoley is a CPA with twenty years of experience in public and private accounting. She oversees financial accounting and reporting; treasury management and tax; forecasting and budgeting; risk management; and the audit function. She also serves as Assistant Secretary to the Board of Directors.
Prior to being named CFO, Ms. Smoley's previous position was Assistant Vice-President of Administration at Safety Syringe's Parent Company, Howard Publication/Howard Energy.
Ms. Smoley began her career at the firm of Coopers & Lybrand, LLP (now known as Price WaterhouseCoopers) serving a variety of public and non-public clients.
Ms. Smoley holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of San Diego.
A Southern California resident, Ms. Smoley attended University of San Diego, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Accounting.
William Campbell
Senior Vice President, Operations
Mr. Campbell brings over twenty years of multi-functional management encompassing operations, manufacturing and engineering in the medical device industry. Prior to joining Safety Syringes, Inc., he was Director of Operations for Gish Biomedical, which manufactures a complete line of Vastec Needles and Needle Protectors, along with cardio vascular medical devices primarily used in Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery.
Mr. Campbell's experience ranges from small medical start-up firms to Fortune 500 companies such as Baxter Laboratories. His manufacturing experience has been centered on both low and high volume operations. Mr. Campbell has directed the set up of new manufacturing operations for engineering design and development of medical devices used in Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery. In addition, he has directed the installation of complex capital equipment installed at worldwide facilities, in particular establishing a strategic business relationship throughout Asia. Mr. Campbell has a reputation for envisioning, initiating and implementing effective solutions to a myriad of operational and organizational issues. He has assembled high performance teams beneficial in an industry of rapidly changing technology.
Mr. Campbell holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management from Pepperdine University.
Suzanne Richardson
Vice President, Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance
Ms. Richardson is a Quality Assurance and Regualtory Affairs (QA/RA) professional with 25 years of experience in the field of medical devices.
Prior to her position with Safety Syringes, Inc., she worked in contract manufacturing for Avail Medical Products and MedSource Technologies in Mexico with customers such as Medtronic Vascular, Medtronic-Minimed, Boston Scientific Corporation, Johnson & Johnson and Smith & Nephew. Additionally, she consulted in QA/RA for 8 years for leading corporations with divisions in transition including: WRGrace/NMC, British Oxygen Company/Omeda, and Boston Scientific Corporation/Meadox.
She began her medical device career introducing new technologies to the market in small startups. Some of these are used in preclinical and clinical trials, IDEs, reclassifications, PMA submissions and post-approval quality assurance.
Ms. Richardson holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Zoology from the University of California at Los Angeles.
Fred Field
Vice President, Research and Product Development
Mr. Field has over 18 years of medical device engineering experience, almost exclusively at start-up medical device companies. Prior to joining Safety Syringes, Inc., Mr. Field was Vice President of Engineering at Onux Medical, Inc., a company producing minimally invasive surgical devices where he contributed to the development of disposable and electronic infusion devices. Prior to that position, he was Manager of Bioengineering at River Medical, Inc. developing pre-filled disposable infusion devices. He has also held positions at other medical device companies including IVAC Medical Systems, Block Medical and the VA Medical Center in San Diego.
Mr. Field holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biomechanics and a Master of Science degree in Applied Mechanics from the University of California, San Diego.
Alexander Jaksch
Vice President, Business Development & Marketing
Mr. Jaksch joins Safety Syringes, Inc. with ten years of international marketing, marketing operations, and business development experience in the Life Sciences.
Before joining Safety Syringes, Jaksch established and served as Managing Director for doctorseyes LLC, a US subsidiary of a German-based imaging equipment provider to the dental and medical industries. His prior roles include key account management and new business development at Ignite Health, Zoomedia, Xerion Pharmaceuticals and Sudler & Hennessey. He brings extensive experience in managing numerous Pan-European and global pharmaceutical and medical device accounts including Fujisawa, Boehringer Ingelheim, Unilever and Medtronic Diabetes.
Mr. Jaksch earned his MBA at the University of California at Irvine and his MS Chemistry/Biochemistry at University of Freiburg, Germany.
Thomas R. Koning
Vice President, Sales
Mr. Koning has over 20 years experience in the medical device industry and over 12 years management experience in Sales and Marketing.
Prior to joining Safety Syringes, Inc., Mr. Koning was Director of Sales for LMA North America, Inc. the market leader in laryngeal mask airways. One of his focus areas was establishing and implementing national agreements with group purchasing organizations and national distributors. Other experience includes national accounts, marketing, sales and human resources with Alaris Medical Systems, Inc. IVAC Corporation and Johnson & Johnson.
Mr. Koning holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business from Hope College in Holland, Michigan.
Bob Scalese
Vice President, Manufacturing Engineering
Bob Scalese has over 20 years of engineering and manufacturing experience in life science, diagnostic/analytical instrumentation and device industries. Prior to joining Safety Syringes, Inc., Mr. Scalese was Vice President of Engineering and Manufacturing at Cyntellect which designs and manufactures automated imaging systems for cell line management. Prior to that position, he was Sr. Director of Engineering at Gen-Probe, responsible for design and manufacturing instrumentation used for molecular diagnostic testing. Previous positions held were at The Tech Group, Denver Instrument and Hamilton Company, a major manufacturer of precision glass syringes. Mr. Scalese has extensive experience of working with contract manufacturing companies.
Mr. Scalese holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Florida Institute of Technology and an MBA from Pepperdine University.
Nancy T. Deisinger
Vice President, Human Resources
Nancy Deisinger was appointed to her current position in May, 2010. Ms. Deisinger joined Safety Syringes, Inc. as the Director, Human Resources in March, 2006 with responsibilities of the design and implementation of all human resources strategies, policies and processes throughout the corporation and serves as the company's safety officer.
Ms. Deisinger has over 15 years of experience in human resource management, benefit administration, recruitment, and compensation and development processes. Previous to joining Safety Syringes, Inc., Ms. Deisinger served as the Benefits Manager of Howard Publications/Energy providing labor relations guidance and overseeing benefits and worker's compensation administration.
Ms. Deisinger holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of San Diego and holds the SPHR designation.
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