Peter Traynor New CFO at ConforMIS

ConforMIS, Inc. has announced it has appointed 30-year business and financial management veteran Peter Traynor as the company’s Chief Financial Officer. Traynor spent 10 years at Genzyme Corporation where he served as the Chief Accounting Officer and most recently as the Senior Vice President of Business Unit Finance. In this role he was responsible for SEC filings, controllership functions, and financial planning and forecasting for Genzyme’s eight global business units. He was also a member of the Global Operating Team and intimately involved in many of Genzyme’s successful acquisitions.

“We are very pleased to welcome Peter as our CFO at a time when the company is experiencing substantial growth, ” said Philipp Lang, M.D., CEO of ConforMIS, in the November 8, 2012 news release. “We are at a very important and exciting point in the company’s history, and Peter’s past experience is very well suited to helping us achieve our goals of sustained growth and disciplined operating execution.”

“It’s very exciting to join a company that combines such an innovative and broad ranging technology with an exceptionally fast growing product offering, ” said Traynor in the November 8, 2012 news release. “I look forward to joining a superb leadership team and working with them to support the continued growth of the company’s image-based technology platform.”

Traynor earned an M.S. in Finance from Bentley College Graduate School and a B.A. in Accounting from the University of Massachusetts. He is currently completing a G.M.A in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

Traynor told OTW,

I have joined ConforMIS at a time when our innovative technology and product offering are growing at an extremely high rate. I will be responsible for putting in a financial planning process that can guide the continued growth of our image-based technology platform, while maintaining our investment discipline and controls.