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This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Lanx gets DeMane: Former Medtronic Chief Operating Officer Michael DeMane is now the chairman and CEO of spine device firm Lanx, the privately held company announced June 7. DeMane moves from his post at venture capital firm Thomas, McNerney and Partners, which he joined last year following his departure from Medtronic in 2008, when the firm eliminated its COO post (1"The Gray Sheet" May 5, 2008). He was an executive at Smith & Nephew and then spine firm Sofamor Danek Group until Medtronic acquired Sofamor in 1999. DeMane subsequently ran Medtronic's spinal systems business. In 2005, he took the helm of Medtronic's Europe, Canada, Latin America and Emerging Markets division, prior to becoming COO in 2007. Lanx markets 10 spinal fusion product lines, including the Telluride minimally invasive system and the BioLanx biologics line
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