{"id":61,"date":"2020-01-23T18:21:52","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T17:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medtechkey.com\/index.php\/15c42-web-agency-gb-about-us\/"},"modified":"2024-09-09T17:43:55","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T15:43:55","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/medtechkey.com\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

About MedTech Key
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Jacques Lafon<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

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My Story<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

With over 25 years of experience in medtech, I have created value through organic and external profitable growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a transformational leader, my expertise encompasses all aspects of corporate leadership and business operations management, across all continents. I started my career as a software engineer and held leadership positions in general management, sales, marketing, M&A, logistics, customer operations, manufacturing, R&D and IT with IDEXX, HillRom, Cardinal Health and Ahlstrom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have successfully created exceptional value in developing medical devices businesses & teams on all continents, thanks to my diverse cultural and functional background.
I have established and led large direct and indirect sales organizations in multiple countries, successfully led the development and launch of key product lines across continents, and optimized complete supply & manufacturing chains. I had the opportunity to lead multiple acquisitions and integrations in multiple medtech and life sciences segments (Capital Equipment, Surgical Implants, Medical Consumables, Hospital Services and Healthcare Materials).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I focus on helping investors (Private Equity funds or strategic buyers) identify, execute, and operate medtech acquisitions globally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am open for consulting assignments, transition management projects and CEO positions leading medtech organisations in achieving their full potential and delivering exceptional value creation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Experiences<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Acquisitions<\/td>Lead for the acquisition of Liko in Sweden
Lead for the acquisition of Liko France
Multiple due diligences (lead, participations and consulting assignments)<\/td><\/tr>
Integrations<\/td>Integration of MediCraft (Australia)
Integration of Liko (Sweden)
Integration of Liko France
Integration of Cordis (EMEA)
Integration of Patient Recovery from Medtronic (ex Covidien, EMEA)<\/td><\/tr>
Divestiture<\/td>Carve out of Cordis EMEA<\/td><\/tr>
General Management<\/td>Led complete businesses up to $500M and 1,200 people
EMEA, USA, APAC, International
Organic growth, restructuring, talent topgrading, external acquisitions & divestitures, turnarounds
Sales leadership with direct and indirect channels, international manufacturing and R&D
Experience with PE funds & public companies<\/td><\/tr>
Multiple Functional Expertise<\/td>10 years in IT
10 years in business transformation (logistics, customer service, marketing, R&D)
10 years managing P&Ls <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Career Overview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
2023<\/td>Ahlstrom (Bain Capital owned)<\/td>Executive Vice President Healthcare (global and complete business)<\/td><\/tr>
2022<\/td>MedTechKey<\/td>Founder & Principal Consultant<\/td><\/tr>
2015 – 2021<\/td>Cardinal Health<\/td>President EMEA
VP EMEA Medical Solutions
VP France, Iberia, Benelux & Emerging Europe<\/td><\/tr>
1997 – 2015<\/td>HillRom
(Acquired by Baxter)<\/td>		VP & GM South Europe
VP Strategic Marketing & Product Development, International
VP & GM Liko International
VP International Business Development (Acquisitions & Partnerships)
VP Commercial Operations, International
European Restructuring Project Director & BU Interim Lead
BU Leader (USA based)
Global Sales, Services & Marketing Executive Director (USA based)
Customer Operations Executive Director, Europe
IT Director, Europe<\/td><\/tr>
1993 – 1997<\/td>IDEXX<\/td>IT Manager Europe (France & USA based)<\/td><\/tr>
1990 – 1993<\/td>ELIPSE<\/td>Account Manager
IT Consultant & Project Manager<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Let\u2019s discuss about how we can work together on your next medtech project and
how I can add value to your business<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Please contact us for a first discussion on your current projects, pipeline and portfolio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Experiences Acquisitions Lead for the acquisition of Liko in SwedenLead for the acquisition of Liko FranceMultiple due diligences (lead, participations and consulting assignments) Integrations Integration of MediCraft (Australia)Integration of Liko (Sweden)Integration of Liko FranceIntegration of Cordis (EMEA)Integration of Patient Recovery from Medtronic (ex Covidien, EMEA) Divestiture Carve out of Cordis EMEA General Management Led complete… Read More »About<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"default","neve_meta_container":"default","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"on","neve_meta_content_width":100,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"on","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-61","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medtechkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medtechkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medtechkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medtechkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medtechkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/medtechkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":800,"href":"https:\/\/medtechkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61\/revisions\/800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medtechkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}