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Executive Summary
ResMed appoints CEO: Kieran T. Gallahue will take the top spot at the sleep and respiratory device firm and join the board of directors on Jan. 1, 2008. Gallahue, who is being promoted to the position from his role as president and chief operating officer of ResMed Global, succeeds company founder Peter C. Farrell. Before Gallahue joined ResMed in 2003 as president and COO of the Americas, he served as president of diagnostics firm Nanogen. Farrell will continue as executive chairman of the board until June 30, 2008, when he will become non-executive chairman...
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