Union City, Ca., USA - May 1, 2015, Union City, Ca., USA - Abaxis, Inc., a medical products company, announced changes to its executive management team.
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Alberto Santa Ines, chief financial officer and vice president of finance of Abaxis for the past 15 years will retire effective July 31, 2015.
Mr. Santa Ines joined Abaxis in February 2000 as Finance Manager and was promoted to Interim Chief Financial Officer and Director of Finance in April 2001 and to his current position in April 2002. From March 1998 to January 2000, Mr. Santa Ines was a self-employed consultant to several companies.
From August 1997 to March 1998, Mr. Santa Ines was the Controller of Unisil, a semiconductor company. From April 1994 to August 1997, he was a Senior Finance Manager at Lam Research Corporation, a semiconductor equipment manufacturer.
Ross Taylor, currently the Company's vice president of business development and investor relations, will transition into the roles of chief financial officer and vice president of finance of Abaxis.
Mr. Taylor joined Abaxis as vice president of business development and investor relations in October 2014. Mr. Taylor has more than 18 years of experience in the investment and securities industries, as a securities analyst covering the healthcare sector.
Prior to joining Abaxis, Mr. Taylor most recently served as Senior Vice President, Equity Research Analyst at CL King & Associates, from 2005 to 2014, covering Healthcare Equipment and Supplies companies with a focus on the animal health and dental sectors.
Mr. Taylor holds an A.B. degree in Economics from Duke University and an MBA with concentrations in accounting and finance from Columbia Business School.
Donald Wood, chief operating officer of Abaxis, has been promoted to president and chief operating officer.
Mr. Wood has served as chief operating officer since April 2014 for Abaxis. Mr. Wood joined Abaxis in October 2007 as vice president of operations and has also served as chief operations officer from April 2009 to April 2014.
From April 2003 to September 2007, Mr. Wood was the vice president of operations of Cholestech Corporation, a medical products manufacturing company that was subsequently acquired by Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc. in September 2007.
From July 2001 to March 2003, Mr. Wood served as vice president of Bone Health, a business unit of Quidel Corporation, a manufacturing and marketer of point-of-care diagnostics, and was responsible for Bone Health Product Operations, Device Research and Development, and Sales and Marketing. He also served as Quidel's vice president of Ultrasound Operations from August 1999 to July 2001.
Prior to joining Quidel, Mr. Wood was the director of Ultrasound Operations for Metra Biosystems Inc., a developer and manufacturing company of point-of-care products for osteoporosis, from July 1998 to August 1999 prior to Quidel's acquisition of Metra Biosystems Inc.
Additional executive promotions include:
Michael Wilkerson, formerly senior director of manufacturing and materials, has been promoted to vice president of operations;
Gregory Bennett, formerly senior director of manufacturing engineering, has been promoted to vice president of engineering; and ■