LITTLETON, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Zynex, Inc. (OTCBB: ZYXI), a provider of pain management systems and electrotherapy products for medical patients with functional disability, announces that Anthony Scalese has been named Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Scalese will start on September 7, 2010, and will report directly to Thomas Sandgaard, Chief Executive Officer.
“Anthony brings a unique blend of financial and operational experience that we expect will benefit Zynex as we continue to execute our growth strategy.”
Mr. Scalese has over 15 years of experience in accounting, finance and operations and has spent the past 13 years of his career in the high-tech and healthcare industries. His most recent position was Chief Financial Officer for Qualmark Corporation, a publicly held global manufacturer of durability testing equipment. Mr. Scalese joined Qualmark in February 2000 as Corporate Controller and also served as President for various subsidiaries of Qualmark. He previously held positions at Coram Healthcare (now Apria Healthcare) as well as Foundation Health Systems (now Healthnet). Mr. Scalese is a Certified Public Accountant licensed in Colorado, received a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Colorado and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Colorado State University. Mr. Scalese’s previous experience includes public company reporting, merging and integrating companies, raising capital and divesting non-core businesses.
“We are extremely pleased to have Anthony join Zynex as our new CFO,” said Thomas Sandgaard, Chief Executive Officer. “Anthony brings a unique blend of financial and operational experience that we expect will benefit Zynex as we continue to execute our growth strategy.”
Mr. Scalese replaces Fritz Allison, who resigned from Zynex earlier this week.
About Zynex
Zynex, Inc. (founded in 1996) engineers, manufactures, markets and sells its own design of electrotherapy medical devices in two distinct markets: standard digital electrotherapy products for pain relief and pain management; and the NeuroMove(TM) for stroke and spinal cord injury rehabilitation. Zynex’s product lines are fully developed, FDA-cleared, commercially sold, an have been developed to uphold the Company’s mission of improving the quality of life for patients suffering from impaired mobility due to stroke, spinal cord injury, or debilitating and chronic pain. Zynex has also announced the development of two new business units, Zynex Monitoring Solutions and Zynex NeuroDiagnostic.
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Certain statements in this release are “forward-looking” and as such are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties. Actual results may vary significantly from the results expressed or implied in such statements. Factors that could cause actual results to materially differ from forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, the need to obtain additional capital in order to grow our business, our ability to engage additional sales representatives, the success of such additional sales representatives, the need to obtain FDA clearance and CE marking of new products, the acceptance of new products as well as existing products by doctors and hospitals, larger competitors with greater financial resources, the need to keep pace with technological changes, our dependence on the reimbursement from insurance companies for products sold or rented to our customers, acceptance of our products by health insurance providers, our dependence on third party manufacturers to produce our goods on time and to our specifications, implementation of our sales strategy including a strong direct sales force, the uncertain outcome of pending material litigation and other risks described in our 10-K Report for the year ended December 31, 2009.
