Centinel Spine announced at the end of January the expansion of the company’s sales team.
Centinel Spine Adds Seasoned Sales Team
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Bill Pfost and Dan Martin are, respectively, the new National VP of Sales and Area VP of Sales.
John Viscogliosi, Centinel’s chairman and CEO said while the company’s sales growth was “strong and steady” in 2010, he was confident the addition of the new sales team will be a catalyst “for exponential sales growth in 2011 and beyond.”
Pfost was most recently VP of New Business Development at Lanx. He has 25 years of medical device sales and management experience with 10 years at U.S. Surgical. He was subsequently affiliated with Spine Tech/Zimmer Spine as an assistant VP and then served as president of that entity’s Spine Distribution Group.
Martin, with 26 years of experience in device sales, spent 15 years in the spine sector as a Sales Specialist at DePuy Motech Spine. He was also Regional Sales Director at Surgical Dynamics, VP of Sales at Theken and VP of Regional Development for Signus Medical.
Centinel Spine was founded in 2008 from the roots of Raymedica to design and develop biomechanical solutions for spinal stabilization and fusion.
The company announced a 41.8% increase in revenue from the third to the fourth quarter in 2010 as the company initiated its new STALIF Midline alpha launch.
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This is a fascinating development. In my practice we've seen similar outcomes with the revised protocol. The key differentiator seems to be patient selection criteria. Has anyone else noticed the correlation with BMI thresholds?
Great point. I'd push back slightly on the conclusion, the sample size in the cited study is too small to draw population-level inferences. That said, the directional signal is compelling and worth a larger RCT.
We implemented a similar approach last year. Early results are promising but we're still gathering 12-month follow-up data. Happy to share our protocol if anyone is interested.
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