LARA BARGHOUT  President & Chief Executive Officer

Lara Barghout joined ReCor Medical in January 2023.

Ms. Barghout brings over 20 years of experience in the medical device industry, leading global organizations and driving cultural transformation, with a particular focus on commercialization, operations and customer service. Most recently, Ms. Barghout served as Senior Vice President and Head of Advanced Therapies at Siemens Healthineers, leading the image-guided therapy business in North America, with focus on unique value-added and integrated solutions and services. Prior to Siemens Healthineers, Ms. Barghout served as Senior Vice President Global Commercial Operations at Terumo Cardiovascular. Throughout her tenure, she oversaw market access, commercial excellence, strategy and commercial operations both regionally and globally. Ms. Barghout holds a Bachelor of Science from Jordan University of Science and Technology and has an MBA from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business Executive Program.

 

MICHAEL JONES  Chief Financial Officer

Michael Jones joined ReCor Medical in June 2023.

Michael has over 25 years of finance leadership experience across several industries, including medical devices, software, global manufacturing, internet and telecommunications. His expertise is in organizational development, process improvement, and scalability, as evidenced by his prior role as CFO of Sense Biodetection, where he helped them develop infrastructure and ramp up manufacturing in preparation for US Commercialization. Prior to that, he was VP of Finance at Cytek Biosciences, where he led them through a successful IPO in July of 2021. In previous roles, Michael was the Divisional CFO of the Varian Medical Systems Oncology Business Unit; the Corporate Controller at Hitachi Global Storage Technologies; and Controller for the Americas at Yahoo. Michael has an undergraduate degree in Accounting from Tulane University, as well as an MBA from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

 

NEIL C. BARMAN, MD   Chief Scientific Officer

Neil Barman joined ReCor Medical in November 2017.

Prior to joining ReCor, Dr. Barman co-founded AblaCare, a start-up medical device company focused on infertility due to polycystic ovary syndrome. Prior to this, Dr. Barman was an early employee and part of the senior management team at Ardian. Ardian pioneered the field of catheter-based renal denervation and was acquired by Medtronic in January 2011. Previously, Dr. Barman led the clinical/medical team at Concentric Medical that developed the first FDA approved line of embolectomy catheters for ischemic stroke. He started his medical device career at Radiant Medical investigating catheter-based cooling for heart attack and stroke. Dr. Barman graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.S. in Biology from Stanford University. He earned his M.D. from Northwestern University Medical School. During medical school, Dr. Barman also did coursework at the Kellogg School of Management.

 

RICK FELLER Chief Operating Officer

Rick Feller joined ReCor Medical in March of 2022.

Mr. Feller brings over 20 years of leadership experience in medical device development specifically in the areas of R&D, manufacturing development, clinical research, and program management. He began his professional career with Cordis where he led the development of many peripheral interventional products from early-stage concepts through PMA approval. He later expanded his leadership as V.P. of R&D and Manufacturing Development for ev3 in the development of interventional devices treating both peripheral arterial and venous disease. Through subsequent acquisitions by Covidien and then Medtronic, he expanded his responsibilities to manage a global R&D team across the United States and Europe. He later joined Wright Medical as V.P. of R&D and Clinical Research for their shoulder arthroplasty business until an acquisition by Stryker. Mr. Feller is a graduate of the University of Florida with a BS and MS in Materials Science & Engineering.

 

RYAN BYARS  General Manager, North America

Ryan Byars joined ReCor Medical in May 2023.

Mr. Byars brings over 20 years of experience in the medical device industry in various commercial and operational leadership roles. The majority of his experience is in the field of Interventional Cardiology, and he has led commercial sales teams for both Boston Scientific and Biotronik Vascular in the United States. Mr. Byars has led efforts in sales execution, therapy development, operations, strategy and business development. His leadership brings a focus on coaching, development, and cultural integration to build high performing teams and organizational fortitude. Mr. Byars is a graduate from the University of Kansas with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and Chemistry.

 

UDO SCHEINER  VP & GM, Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)

Udo Scheiner joined ReCor Medical in January 2022.

Mr. Scheiner brings over 20 years of broad commercial and operational experience within the Medical Device Industry. He has lived and worked in several countries across Europe and Asia Pacific. Mr. Scheiner served in various sales, marketing, therapy development and GM roles with increasing scope and responsibility at Guidant in Europe. Following Guidant, Mr. Scheiner held several senior leadership positions at Boston Scientific Corp in Europe and Asia, where he finally served as Regional Vice President of the Asia Pacific region. He then joined Abbott Vascular as Divisional Vice President for the EMEA region before accepting the role of CEO at New Valve Technology (NVT), a start-up company in the structural heart space. Mr. Scheiner is a former Board Member and Chair of the Cardiovascular Sector Group at Eucomed, the European Medical Device Industry Association. He holds a BS degree in Business Management and Engineering from the University of Applied Sciences in Würzburg, Germany.

 

DAVID KIM  Vice President, Quality Affairs

David Kim joined ReCor Medical in June 2015.

Mr. Kim has 20 years experience with increasing responsibility in quality assurance systems and engineering. Mr. Kim began his quality career at Perclose following the acquisition by Abbott Laboratories, where he lead the site implementation of corporate quality and compliance directives. Following that experience, he worked at several rapidly growing medical device companies including Conor MedSystems where he was part of evolving the quality system to meet the demands of an expanding organization while maintaining a collaborative and innovative culture of compliance. More recently, Mr. Kim has been the first quality employees at several early stage companies including Moximed and Altura Medical, where he was responsible for rapidly establishing the quality system and obtaining ISO certification. Mr. Kim is a graduate of the University of Southern California with a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering.