HOYA Group Appoints Rainer Burkard as Global President of PENTAX Medical
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TOKYO, March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --
PENTAX Medical, a division of HOYA Group, has announced the appointment of
Rainer Burkard to the position of Global President of PENTAX Lifecare Division
(PENTAX Medical) as of April 1st, 2022.
HOYA Group is pleased to have Mr. Rainer Burkard lead the global division of
PENTAX Medical," said Eiichiro Ikeda, Representative Executive Officer and CEO
of HOYA Corporation. "Mr. Burkard brings a wealth of knowledge, insight and
experience from his various global executive roles within HOYA, especially from
our PENTAX Lifecare Division. He has a proven track record of delivering
results through developing and implementing strategic and operational changes
in a global multicultural environment. We expect his leadership to further
advance the PENTAX Medical growth strategy."
Mr. Burkard joined HOYA Lens Deutschland GmbH in 2002 and served as Head of
Marketing until 2007. He was then promoted to the HOYA Vision Care global
headquarters as General Manager, Business Development. In 2014, he was
instrumental in integrating the European operations of SEIKO OPTICAL and led
the development of the SEIKO XchangerTM collection which won the prestigious
Silmo d'Or award for excellence in optical innovation. He joined PENTAX Europe
GmbH as Chief Executive Officer (Europe, Middle East and Africa) in August
2015, and expanded his global role as Chief Commercial Officer of the Americas
in July 2020.
"It is an honor taking over the global leadership for our division. I would
like to express my sincere gratitude for the leadership provided by Mr. Gerald
W. Bottero, PENTAX Medical Global President since 2016. Under his leadership,
HOYA corporate values were firmly established and will continue guiding us for
the future. We wish Mr. Bottero only the best as he begins his well-earned
retirement after 34 years with HOYA," said Mr. Burkard.
"Moving forward we are going to develop a unified global PENTAX Medical
approach to our customers inspired by our Triple Aim. Many of our current and
specifically future product innovations will position PENTAX Medical and its
solutions uniquely in the market, specifically to and for our customers. This
will provide enhanced competitiveness and growth potential while addressing
relevant environmental aspects."
About PENTAX Medical
PENTAX Medical is a division of HOYA Group. The company's mission is to improve
the standard of patient care and quality of healthcare delivery by providing
the best endoscopic products and services with a focus on QUALITY, CLINICALLY
RELEVANT INNOVATION, and SIMPLICITY. PENTAX Medical strives to align with the
healthcare community's Triple Aim goals through transparent partnerships with
its customers and by providing the highest quality solutions to help them reach
their goals, including enabling customers to improve patient outcomes by
offering evidence-based solutions across the continuum of care; ensuring value
by supporting the customers to improve their efficiency and minimize their
healthcare costs; and enriching patient and provider's experience by empowering
every member of the care team to achieve optimal outcomes through products,
education, and support.
Focused on the outcome instead of technological features, PENTAX Medical
listens to the healthcare community and their patients, understands their daily
obstacles and helps improve endoscopy with smart innovations.
For more information: www.pentaxmedical.com
About HOYA
Founded in 1941 in Tokyo, Japan, HOYA Corporation is a global technology and
med-tech company and a leading supplier of innovative high-tech and medical
products. HOYA's divisions and business units research and develop products
utilized in the healthcare and information technology fields. In the healthcare
field, we provide medical device products such as eyeglasses, medical
endoscopes, contact and intraocular lenses, orthopedic implants,
surgical/therapeutic devices and medical device reprocessing and disinfection
solutions. In the information technology field, we provide products such as
optical lenses, photomasks and blanks used in the manufacturing process for
semiconductor and LCD/OLED devices, text to speech, human resources and other
software solutions and critical components for the mass memory and cloud
storage industries. With over 150 offices and subsidiaries worldwide, HOYA
currently employs a multinational workforce of 37,000 people. For more
information, please visit http://www.hoya.com/.
Source: HOYA Corporation PENTAX Medical
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