left to right: Les White, Director of Sales; Frank Pollock; Jennifer Kennedy; Mark Gnagy, Vice President of Sales; Peter Napoli, COO & President
Alfa Wassermann announces 2017 President’s Club winners
Alfa Wassermann Diagnostic Technologies (West Caldwell, NJ) announced its 2017 President’s Club winners, Frank Pollock (Business Development Manager of the MidAtlantic region) and Jennifer Kennedy (Business Development Manager of the West region). President’s Club is the highest honor awarded to the top sales representatives in the 2017 calendar year.
Owens & Minor makes changes to board
Owens & Minor Inc (Richmond, VA) announced that its board of directors elected Mark F. McGettrick to the board of directors, effective March 1, 2018. McGettrick currently is the EVP and CFO of Dominion Energy. In addition, McGettrick also is CFO and director on the board of Dominion Energy Midstream Partners LP, a Master Limited Partnership operating a portfolio of natural gas assets. In addition, two board members have announced they will not stand for reelection at the company’s 2018 Annual Meeting of Shareholders to be held May 8, 2018. James E. Rogers, former chairman of BackOffice Associates LLC, will retire from the board effective May 8, 2018. Also, David S. Simmons, chairman & CEO of Pharmaceutical Product Development LLC, announced that he will not stand for reelection due to competing business demands associated with his chairman & CEO position. His service on the board will cease May 8, 2018.
Google’s sister-company, Verily, to enter health insurance market
Verily, the life sciences unit owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet, has been in talks with insurers about jointly bidding for contracts that would involve taking on risk for hundreds of thousands of patients, according to people familiar with the company’s plans. In 2016, Verily, the group formerly known as Google Life Sciences, mulled jointly putting in a proposal with Alphabet-backed insurer Oscar Health to manage care for thousands of low-income Rhode Island residents on Medicaid, but ultimately decided against it. Now, it is moving ahead with plans to enter into this market, which health insiders often refer to as “population health” or “care management.”