{"id":35314,"date":"2025-09-12T01:57:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T01:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/g-medtech.com\/news\/?p=35314"},"modified":"2025-09-12T03:23:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T03:23:43","slug":"laborie-appoints-chris-smith-as-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/g-medtech.com\/news\/laborie-appoints-chris-smith-as-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Laborie Appoints Chris Smith as CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/g-medtech.com\/database\/medtech-players\/index\/laborie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Laborie Medical Technologies<\/a> has announced the appointment of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/chris-smith-a8baa441\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chris Smith<\/a> as its new Chief Executive Officer, effective September 22, 2025. Smith takes over from Michael Frazzette, who recently retired. With more than 30 years of leadership experience in healthcare and medical technology, Smith brings a wealth of expertise from his previous roles as CEO at NeoGenomics Laboratories, Ortho Clinical Diagnostics, and Cochlear Limited. He has a history of driving innovation and growth across various sectors and has also held numerous board positions in both public and private companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">David Perez, Chair of Laborie\u2019s Board of Directors, expressed gratitude for Frazzette&#8217;s contributions and welcomed Smith, noting his extensive experience as a strategic asset for the company\u2019s future. Yuriy Prilutskiy, Co-Head of Patricia Industries, echoed these sentiments, emphasizing the company\u2019s continued growth under Frazzette\u2019s leadership and expressing confidence in Smith\u2019s ability to build on this momentum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Smith, who has been serving on Laborie&#8217;s Board of Directors since 2023, is already familiar with the company\u2019s mission and operations, making for a smooth transition. In his new role, Smith is committed to driving innovation across the company\u2019s core platforms: urology, gastroenterology, and obstetrics. Laborie will be hosting welcome sessions for Smith in the coming weeks to introduce him to employees and partners across its global network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laborie Medical Technologies has appointed Chris Smith as CEO, succeeding Michael Frazzette, effective September 22, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24280,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,681,10],"tags":[793],"class_list":["post-35314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas","category-care-therapy","category-strategic-development","tag-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-medtech.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-medtech.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-medtech.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-medtech.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-medtech.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35314"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/g-medtech.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35332,"href":"https:\/\/g-medtech.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35314\/revisions\/35332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-medtech.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-medtech.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-medtech.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-medtech.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}