Dune Medical Devices hires president for US and chief business officer
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
Dune Medical Devices (Caesarea, Israel), a developer of intraoperative devices for detecting cancerous tissues, has appointed William Densel as president for the US and as chief business officer. Mr Densel joins from Hologic, where he was vice-president for marketing at the firm's GYN surgery division; he was also responsible for the firm's tumour radiation therapy business. He has 16 years of sales and marketing management in women's health and other surgical specialities.
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