Ex-Stryker Corporation Exec Muddied by Sexual Harassment Rumors

A proxy fight for surgical and patient monitoring products maker ConMed has reached new levels of abrasiveness, with accusations of sexual harassment flying around a board candidate who used to lead Stryker Corp. Voce Capital Management, which has proposed four of its own independent board candidates for Utica, NY–based ConMed’s board, has trashed the two new directors ConMed plans to bring on as part of a recently announced agreement with Coppersmith Capital Management and certain affiliates. Voce referred to an allegation that Alere made about Hartman during Coppersmith’s unsuccessful attempt to take over the connected health company.

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