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Print Edition StoriesWednesday, March 3, 2010
Changing Places
Who's coming? Who's going? Who's changing places?
By Mass High Tech staff
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Biotech
Genzyme Corp. has hired a new head of product quality in Ron Branning, senior vice president of global product quality at the Cambridge-based biotechnology company. His job will be to ensure the quality of all Genzyme products manufactured at 17 sites around the world. Branning has 30 years of experience in product quality and regulatory affairs at biotech and pharmaceutical companies including Johnson & Johnson Co., Gilead Sciences Inc., Genentech Inc., and companies acquired by Baxter International Inc., Wyeth and Pfizer Inc.
Cambridge startup Genocea Biosciences Inc. has hired Paul J. Giannasca as vice president, development, to help lead the transition of the company’s novel vaccine programs into the clinic. Prior to Genocea, Giannasca spent nearly a decade at Cambridge firm Acambis Inc., now Sanofi-Pasteur. There he served as vice president, development, and also served as project leader of Acambis’ Clostridium difficile vaccine program. Previously, Giannasca was a senior scientist for OraVax.
Medical devices
NuOrtho Surgical Inc., a medical devices firm in Fall River, has added Ian McRury as chief scientific officer. McRury has been working in the medical devices industry for the past 17 years with companies including Davol, Johnson & Johnson and C.R. Bard. At DePuy Mitek, a division of Johnson & Johnson, he focused on rapid product development and transformational technologies such as the Platform Leader for Tissue Management. He has significant experience developing and launching radio frequency-based products.
Services
Concord intellectual property law firm of Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds has promoted Max Colice to patent agent. Colice assists the firm in patent preparation and prosecution in the areas of lasers, optics, electronics, software and telecommunications. Colice earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Brown University, and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Colorado.
Caturano and Co. of Boston has added Christopher K. LaDue to the firm as the lead of its business valuation practice. LaDue specializes in mergers and acquisitions and valuation services for financial and tax reporting, gift and estate planning and litigation support. Prior to joining Caturano, LaDue was the director of the Boston office of Globalview Advisors, an international financial valuation and advisory services firm. He has also worked with the valuation practices of Ernst & Young LLP and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, where he specialized in valuations and mergers & acquisitions.
Melissa Cappas has been promoted to general manager of the HR Contract Services division at The Winter, Wyman Companies. In her role, Cappas will be responsible for business development, overseeing strategy and partnering with corporate clients on their staffing needs. She will also manage the division’s team of five staffing professionals. Prior to her promotion, Cappas served as a supervisor in the same division. Before to joining Winter, Wyman, she held recruiter and staffing specialist roles with other recruitment agencies.
Software
Waltham’s Mzinga Inc. has added Angie Hazard as vice president of talent to lead recruitment and human resources, and Diana McKearney as vice president and general counsel. Hazard’s professional experience includes positions with Deloitte, m-Qube, Ernst & Young, and Portal Software. McKearney’s legal experience includes serving as corporate and in-house counsel for such companies as Fast Search & Transfer, MCK Communications, Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products, and Saville Systems.
Bridgeline Software Inc. has added Scott Landers to the Woburn company’s board of directors. Since July of 2008 Landers has been the senior vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer for Monotype Imaging, a global developer of text imaging solutions. Prior to joining Monotype, Landers was the vice president of global finance at Pitney Bowes Software, a $450 million division of Pitney Bowes. Landers was also vice president of finance at MapInfo, which was acquired by Pitney Bowes in April of 2007. Earlier in his career, Landers was a business assurance manager with Coopers & Lybrand.
Life sciences
The Pioneer Valley Life Sciences Institute in Springfield has added Marcia Dougan Woods to the institute as its business development manager. In that capacity, she will work closely with the senior leadership team to advance relationships and implement innovative programs with industry. Woods has 20 years of experience in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, including as a consultant to small biotechnology companies and with Bristol-Myers Squibb as director, oncology/pharmacogenomics external science technology and licensing.
Networks
Michelle Pope has been promoted to chief operations officer for Atrion Networking Corp. Pope began her career at Warwick, R.I.’s Atrion nine years ago, working in roles including applications engineering, project management and, most recently, director of support services. Prior to joining Atrion, Pope worked as technical services director at EDS.
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