Lund, Sweden, 7 November, 2016 – BONESUPPORT AB, an emerging leader in innovative injectable bioceramic bone graft substitutes to treat bone voids caused by trauma, infection, disease or related surgery, is pleased to announce the appointment of Patrick O’Donnell as General Manager and Executive Vice President, North American Commercialization to its leadership team. Mr O’Donnell will lead the relationship with the company’s partner, Zimmer Biomet, to drive revenue growth of BONESUPPORT’s CERAMENT™ BONE VOID FILLER (BVF). He will also set the strategy for the introduction of CERAMENT™ G, a novel gentamicin eluting bone graft substitute, to the U.S. market pending a positive outcome of the planned FORTIFY PMA trial and subject to FDA approval.
Mr O’Donnell joins BONESUPPORT after serving as CEO of three companies focused on innovative orthopaedic regenerative technologies. Following his role as CEO of Histogenics Corporation, he was most recently the Co-Founder and CEO of ProteoThera Inc., based in Cambridge, MA. His experience includes being head of Global Marketing of Confluent Surgical, where he launched and built the DuraSeal™ brand of surgical dural sealant products, currently owned by Integra LifeSciences In addition, he spent 13 years in sales, sales management and marketing in orthobiologics and medical devices at Johnson & Johnson’s DePuy Spine Division.
Mr O’Donnell said: “I am very pleased about the opportunity and quite fortunate to be joining BONESUPPORT at a very important and exciting tipping point stage for the Company. I look forward to working with the BONESUPPORT team to optimize the significant potential of CERAMENT BVF and in time CERAMENT G in North America.”
Richard Davies, CEO of BONESUPPORT, said: “We are excited to welcome Patrick to the BONESUPPORT team, particularly after completing the recent financing, which will be crucial to executing our strategy. Patrick brings with him a great breadth of experience ranging from start-ups to small and large companies. He has an in-depth of knowledge of the orthobiologics space and appreciation of the significant potential of our unique CERAMENT drug eluting osteoconductive bioceramic platform to develop a pipeline of novel products for a broad range of bone diseases. The clinical value proposition of our products is expected to become increasingly relevant to the U.S. healthcare market which is undergoing a sea change to value based care.”
