Ultrasound therapy developer Ekos has raised $26 million in series C financing, and has formed a commercial sales and marketing team.
The new sales team will support the company's flagship ultrasound-assisted fluid infusion catheters, according to the Bothell, WA-based firm. The team will be headed by new hires Michael Dellario and Jennifer Vaughan.
Dellario, who will serve as vice president of marketing, joins Ekos after a 13-year stint with AngioDynamics. Vaughan will be vice president of sales and comes to Ekos from Guidant, where she was director of sales for cardiac surgery.
In other personnel news, Ekos has promoted Doug Hansmann to the position of COO. Hansmann, a co-founder of Ekos, was recently general manager and vice president of research.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
March 22, 2006
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