SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Avantis Medical Systems, Inc. announced that a marketing and sales executive joined the company in anticipation of commercializing the Third Eye(TM) Retroscope(TM) Auxiliary Imaging System.
The company said that Lloyd Diamond has joined as Vice President of Marketing and Sales. Diamond has over 15 years experience in medical device marketing and comes to Avantis from Laserscope where he served as Vice President of Marketing. He joined Avantis after the acquisition of Laserscope by American Medical Systems during the later part of 2006. Before that, Diamond had several marketing and management position of increasing responsibility in leading medical device companies such as Kyphon, an innovator in minimally invasive spinal therapies, and Linvatec, a division of CONMED Corporation and formerly of Bristol-Myers Squibb.
“We are delighted to have Lloyd join the Avantis team,” said Fred Seddiqui, President and Chief Executive Officer. “His extensive experience in developing and marketing innovative technologies will benefit us greatly as we launch the Third Eye Retroscope system and greatly improve the quality of diagnosis and care for patients with gastrointestinal disease.”
About Avantis
Avantis Medical Systems, Inc. is a medical device company founded to develop and manufacture catheter-based endoscopic devices. Based in Sunnyvale, Calif., the Company’s initial focus is on devices for use in detecting and treating cancers of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract.
The Avantis team has many decades of experience in the medical device industry, and focuses on developing solutions for problems, hazards and inconveniences associated with traditional technologies. The Company is developing an extensive portfolio of patents covering innovative devices based on the convergent technologies of micro-chips and reinforced catheters.
CONTACT: Jennifer Havlek Avantis Medical Systems, Inc. 263 Santa Ana Court Sunnyvale, CA 94085 (408) 733-1901, ext. 200 jhavlek@avantismedical.com
Avantis Medical Systems, Inc.
CONTACT: Jennifer Havlek of Avantis Medical Systems, Inc.,+1-408-733-1901, ext. 200
