DEER PARK, N.Y., Jan. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Langer, Inc. is pleased to announce the hiring of Kathryn Kehoe as a Senior Vice President, Operations and Strategy. Ms. Kehoe will be responsible for company-wide strategic planning, organizational development, and certain U.S. operations.
Gray Hudkins, the Company's President and CEO, commented, "Kathy has a long track record of providing leadership during periods of corporate change and growth, and I believe she is uniquely qualified to help us reach our goals in that regard. She brings depth of business and management expertise to Langer derived from positions she held at premier companies in healthcare and healthcare-related businesses, including NovaCare, Bristol Myers Squibb Company and Johnson & Johnson. In her most recent corporate role at NovaCare, she was the Senior Vice President, Human Resources and an Executive Committee member, and an operating executive and officer of a subsidiary employee services company, and participated in the integration of over one hundred acquired companies into NovaCare. Since leaving NovaCare in 2000, Kathy has owned and managed a consulting firm which provided corporate strategic planning, organizational development, and acquisition due diligence and integration planning services. We are very pleased to add Kathy's experience and expertise to the management team and we look forward to working with her."
Langer, Inc., together with its wholly owned subsidiary Silipos, Inc., designs, manufactures and distributes high quality medical products targeting the orthopedic, orthotic and prosthetic markets. In addition, the Company offers a diverse line of skincare products for the medical and therapeutic markets. The Company sells its products primarily in the U.S. and Canada as well as in more than 30 other countries to national, regional, international and independent medical distributors and directly to healthcare professionals.
Langer is based in Deer Park, New York, and has additional manufacturing facilities in Niagara Falls, New York, Anaheim, California, Montreal, Canada, Stoke-on-Trent, UK, and sales and marketing offices in Ontario, Canada and New York, New York.
Certain matters discussed in this press release constitute forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. The Company may use words such as "anticipates," "believes," "plans," "expects," "intends," "future" and similar expressions to identify forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties are described in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-1, its 2004 Form 10-K and most recently filed Form 10-Qs and Form 8-Ks.
Langer, Inc.CONTACT: W. Gray Hudkins, President and CEO, ext. 226, or Joseph P.Ciavarella, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, ext. 233, both ofLanger, Inc., +1-631-667-1200
Web site: http://www.langerinc.com/
