Rolf A. Classon Joins Masimo’s Board of Directors
IRVINE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Masimo (NASDAQ: MASI) announced today that Rolf A. Classon has been appointed to Masimo’s Board of Directors. Mr. Classon is an experienced medical technology executive and board member. From October 2002 until his retirement in July 2004, he was Chairman of the Executive Committee of Bayer HealthCare AG. He served as President of Bayer Diagnostics from 1995 to 2002 and as Executive Vice President of Bayer Diagnostics from 1991 to 1995. Prior to 1991, Mr. Classon held various management positions with Pharmacia Corporation.
Mr. Classon has served as Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA since 2011, and as Chairman of the Board of BICO Group AB since May 2023, having joined its board of directors in April 2022. Mr. Classon has served on the board of Catalent, Inc. since 2014.
Mr. Classon was previously Chairman of the Board of Directors of Perrigo Company plc, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Tecan Group Ltd., Chairman of the Board of Directors of Hill-Rom Corporation, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Auxilium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. He also previously served on the Boards of Directors of Sequanna Medical AG, Aerocrine AB, Stockholm, Millipore Corporation, Prometheus Laboratories Inc., and Enzon Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Mr. Classon received his Chemical Engineering Certificate from the Gothenburg School of Engineering and a Business Degree from the Gothenburg University.
Joe Kiani, Chairman and CEO of Masimo, said, “We’re happy to welcome Rolf to our Board. We look forward to working with him and benefitting from his vast experience as a medical technology executive and board member.”
“I’m honored to join Masimo’s Board,” said Mr. Classon. “I’m excited to help shape the next stage of Masimo’s growth while driving long-term value for Masimo and its shareholders.”
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About Masimo
Masimo (NASDAQ: MASI) is a global medical technology company that develops and produces a wide array of industry-leading monitoring technologies, including innovative measurements, sensors, patient monitors, and automation and connectivity solutions. In addition, Masimo Consumer Audio is home to eight legendary audio brands, including Bowers & Wilkins, Denon, Marantz, and Polk Audio. Our mission is to improve life, improve patient outcomes, and reduce the cost of care. Masimo SET® Measure-through Motion and Low Perfusion™ pulse oximetry, introduced in 1995, has been shown in over 100 independent and objective studies to outperform other pulse oximetry technologies.1 Masimo SET® has also been shown to help clinicians reduce severe retinopathy of prematurity in neonates,2 improve CCHD screening in newborns3 and, when used for continuous monitoring with Masimo Patient SafetyNet™ in post-surgical wards, reduce rapid response team activations, ICU transfers, and costs.4-7 Masimo SET® is estimated to be used on more than 200 million patients in leading hospitals and other healthcare settings around the world,8 and is the primary pulse oximetry at 9 of the top 10 hospitals as ranked in the 2022-23 U.S. News and World Report Best Hospitals Honor Roll.9 In 2005, Masimo introduced rainbow® Pulse CO-Oximetry technology, allowing noninvasive and continuous monitoring of blood constituents that previously could only be measured invasively, including total hemoglobin (SpHb®), oxygen content (SpOC™), carboxyhemoglobin (SpCO®), methemoglobin (SpMet®), Pleth Variability Index (PVi®), RPVi™ (rainbow® PVi), and Oxygen Reserve Index (ORi™). In 2013, Masimo introduced the Root® Patient Monitoring and Connectivity Platform, built from the ground up to be as flexible and expandable as possible to facilitate the addition of other Masimo and third-party monitoring technologies; key Masimo additions include Next Generation SedLine® Brain Function Monitoring, O3® Regional Oximetry, and ISA™ Capnography with NomoLine® sampling lines. Masimo’s family of continuous and spot-check monitoring Pulse CO-Oximeters® includes devices designed for use in a variety of clinical and non-clinical scenarios, including tetherless, wearable technology, such as Radius-7®, Radius PPG®, and Radius VSM™, portable devices like Rad-67®, fingertip pulse oximeters like MightySat® Rx, and devices available for use both in the hospital and at home, such as Rad-97®. Masimo hospital and home automation and connectivity solutions are centered around the Masimo Hospital Automation™ platform, and include Iris® Gateway, iSirona™, Patient SafetyNet, Replica®, Halo ION®, UniView®, UniView :60™, and Masimo SafetyNet®. Its growing portfolio of health and wellness solutions includes Radius Tº®, Masimo W1™, and Masimo Stork™. Additional information about Masimo and its products may be found at www.masimo.com. Published clinical studies on Masimo products can be found at www.masimo.com/evidence/featured-studies/feature/.
RPVi has not received FDA 510(k) clearance and is not available for sale in the United States. The use of the trademark Patient SafetyNet is under license from University HealthSystem Consortium.
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