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PDI Appoints Antonio Sanchez-Cordero, Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy, Business Development, and Licensing
Reinforcing Its Commitment to Leadership In Infection Provention
ORANGEBURG, NY – April 9, 2018 – PDI, a leader in infection prevention products and solutions, announces the appointment of Antonio Sanchez-Cordero as Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy and Business Development & Licensing. In this role, Sanchez-Cordero will collaborate with his colleagues to enhance, articulate, and execute PDI’s strategy for growth, leveraging both organic and transactional sources. He joins a management team committed to reinforcing the mission-focused culture of serving patients and caregivers that has made PDI a market leader and trusted advisor in infection prevention.
Prior to PDI, Sanchez-Cordero served as an Operating Partner in a healthcare-focused investment firm and as Vice President, Strategy & Corporate Development at WerfenLife, a global, privately-held in-vitro diagnostics and medical devices company based in Barcelona, Spain. At Werfen, he led the successful development of the company’s multi-division growth strategy and managed the realization of several complementary transactions.
“Antonio brings a wealth of experience in business development, strategic planning, and growth to his role,” said Kent Davies, President and Chief Operating Officer, PDI. “His appointment reinforces PDI’s commitment to extending and expanding our market leadership position with new products and solutions that continue to meet our customers’ evolving infection prevention needs. We are committed to pursuing organic technology development as well as transactional opportunities that help us to lead, grow, and serve patients and caregivers through our mission to eliminate preventable infections.”
About PDI: PDI helps reduce preventable infections, control associated costs and, ultimately, save lives by delivering a broad range of evidence-based, market leading environmental hygiene, patient care and food safety solutions in the community and healthcare environments. PDI has three divisions, PDI Contract Manufacturing, Sani Professional® and PDI Healthcare. Visit wearepdi.com.
PDI Strengthens Team with New Senior Leadership Appointments
Infection prevention leader welcomes Tom McCurdy as Senior Vice President and General Manager, PDI Healthcare and promotes Esperanza Carrion to Vice President and General Manager, Sani Professional®
ORANGEBURG, NY – January 16, 2018 – PDI, a leader in infection prevention products and solutions, announces the appointment of Tom McCurdy as Senior Vice President and General Manager for its healthcare division and promotes Esperanza “Espie” Carrion, the former Vice President of Marketing for Sani Professional, the food safety division of PDI, to Vice President and General Manager of Sani Professional. Tom and Espie join Cheryl Mallon, Vice President and General Manager, PDI Contract Manufacturing, in these important roles driving the company’s growth and further elevating it as a leader in the fight against preventable infections.
Tom has a proven track record as a people-centered and results-driven senior executive and will lead the development and the execution of the growth strategy for PDI Healthcare. In his most recent role as President of Global Plasma for Haemonetics Corporation, Tom achieved impressive revenue and profit growth by implementing a new-product-technology and customer-value-centered strategy founded in innovation, clinical value, and commercial excellence. Earlier in his career, Tom spent 18 years at Boston Scientific Corporation holding multiple roles of increasing commercial leadership responsibility and contributing to the impressive growth.
Espie has successfully led the Sani Professional marketing organization for the last six years. She is an accomplished leader with diverse consumer and business-to-business experience. In this new role, Espie will lead Sani Professional’s plan execution as well as crafting its future growth strategy. Prior to joining PDI, Esperanza held roles of increasing responsibility with top Fortune 100 companies such as The Colgate-Palmolive Company, The Coca-Cola Company, and Kraft Foods International.
“We are thrilled to make these new leadership appointments, adding depth, talent, and experience to PDI’s senior team,” said Kent Davies, President and Chief Operating Officer, PDI. “PDI has become an infection prevention leader through our market leading products, dedicated associates, and long-term commitment to eliminating pathogenic risks in health care, food service, and other settings. With strong general managers leading each of our three market and customer facing businesses, we are well positioned to continue our legacy of growth and innovation.”
About PDI: PDI helps reduce preventable infections, control associated costs and, ultimately, save lives by delivering a broad range of evidence-based, market leading environmental hygiene, patient care and food safety solutions in the community and healthcare environments. PDII has three divisions, PDI Contract Manufacturing, Sani Professional® and PDI Healthcare. Visit wearepdi.com.
PDI Supports Annual Hispanic Health & Heritage Fair
Stamford, CT – PDI donated free products at a booth to help provide health/prevention to between 1,000 and 2,000 people in their local Hispanic communities, and to anyone impacted by low income, being uninsured or undocumented, unemployed/under-employed, or who may be non-English speaking or with limited English-language skills.
PDI Associates Participate in United Way Fall Day of Caring
PDI is proud to support United Way of Rockland County’s Fall Day of Caring. Thank you to our associates who continue to Be The Difference in the communities in which we operate!
PDI Appoints New President & Chief Operating Officer, Kent J. Davies
ORANGEBURG, NY – October 4, 2017 – PDI, a leader in infection prevention products and solutions, announces the appointment of Kent J. Davies as President and Chief Operating Officer. Through this new position and appointment, PDI will continue to accelerate its evolution as an infection prevention solutions leader. In this role, Kent will be responsible for driving PDI’s enterprise-wide commercial strategy and have overall responsibility for its operational and financial performance.
“PDI is entering its next phase of growth as we continue to innovate our products and solutions to solve real customer challenges. Ultimately, our mission is to protect loved ones from getting sick, dying or suffering due to a preventable infection,” said Zachary Julius, Chief Executive Officer, PDI. “Kent joins PDI with significant experience and understanding of the infection prevention market. He has continually delivered growth and business performance as a mature and experienced multi-functional leader.”
Kent has over twenty-five years of successful operating, general management and leadership experience, including assignments with name brand multi-nationals such as 3M, Kimberly-Clark, and Stryker as well as several rapidly-growing, privately-owned, middle-market businesses. Most recently, he served as Chief Operating Officer of NYSE-listed Haemonetics Corporation with responsibility for its full P&L and its broad portfolio of blood and plasma collection technologies. He has delivered growth through organic R&D and successful business development and licensing initiatives while being disciplined about managing quality performance and continuous improvement in operations.
“I have long-admired PDI as a leading brand and growing, scalable infection prevention platform. I am thrilled to join PDI as it continues to invest in the development of its customer relationships, products, and people,” said Kent Davies. “I am excited about the potential of PDI and energized by the partnership with Zachary Julius”.
Kent earned his BA in History from the University of California, Berkeley and his MBA in Marketing from the University of Minnesota. He also completed course work in Finance at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
About PDI: PDI helps reduce preventable infections, control associated costs and, ultimately, save lives by delivering a broad range of evidence-based, market leading environmental hygiene, patient
care and food safety solutions in the community and healthcare environments. PDII has three divisions, PDI Contract Manufacturing, Sani Professional® and PDI Healthcare. Visit wearepdi.com.
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