Healthcare
Medical Equipment & Supplies
NASD: ZOLL
ZOLL MEDICAL CORP.
32 Second Avenue
Burlington, MA 01803
Richard A. Packer
President and
Chief Executive Officer
Interview conducted by:
Walter Banks
Co-Publisher
CEOCFOinterviews,com
April 2001
BIO OF CEO
Mr.
Packer joined the Company in 1992 and in November 1999, was appointed Chairman of the
Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer. Mr.
Packer served as President, Chief Operating Officer and Director from May 1996 to his
appointment as CEO. Since 1992 he has served
as Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Operations of the Company. From 1987 to 1992, Mr. Packer served as Vice
President of various functions for Whistler Corporation, a consumer electronics Company. Prior to this, Mr. Packer was a manager with the
consulting firm of PRTM/KPMG, specializing in operations of high technology companies. Mr. Packer is a director of Lifecor, Inc. Mr. Packer received B.S. and M. Eng. degrees from
the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Graduate School of
Business Administration.
About
ZOLL MEDICAL CORP.
ZOLL
Medical Corporation designs, manufactures and markets an integrated line of proprietary
non-invasive resuscitation devices and disposable electrodes. Used by health care professionals to provide both
types of cardiac resuscitation – pacing and defibrillation – these products are
essential in the emergency treatment of cardiac arrest victims both inside and outside the
hospital. ZOLL also designs and markets
software, which automates collection and management of both clinical and non-clinical data
for emergency medical service providers.
Products
include:
ZOLL Medical Corporation designs, manufactures, and markets a
complete line of easy-to-use defibrillators, noninvasive external pacemakers, and
defibrillation electrodes for hospital and pre-hospital applications. ZOLL’s Rectilinear Biphasic technology has
been demonstrated to be clinically superior for both defibrillating difficult (high
impedance) patients and cardioverting atrial fibrillation.
The comprehensive defibrillator family includes manual, advisory and semi-automatic
defibrillators. ZOLL also offers a complete
line of Multi-Function Electrodes with products optimized for emergency situations,
special procedures and pediatrics. ZOLL’s
unique liquid gel Multi-Function Electrodes help to virtually eliminate dermal damage
during resuscitation procedures.
CEOCFOinterviews - Mr.
Packer, can you give us a brief history of Zoll Medical?
Mr. Packer: "Zoll
Medical was started in the early eighties on the basis of new technology invented by Dr.
Paul Zoll who was a practicing cardiologist here in Boston. Dr. Zoll invented a new way to
do an external pacing which is to pace the heart from the electrodes that are placed on
the skin on the outside of the body. We started the company primarily making pacemakers
and then moved into the world of defibrillation, which is the ability to revive the heart
after a cardiac arrest to get the heart beating again. Thus, in the late eighties we moved
into defibrillation and we have grown the business to about 110 million dollars so
far."
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