Aurelio Sahagun: New President of MicroPort Orthopedics

Aurelio Sahagun has been tapped to lead MicroPort Scientific Corporation into the future. Sahagun has assumed the role of President. Ted Davis has departed as chief executive officer, but has committed to working closely with Sahagun to ensure a smooth and seamless transition.

Sahagun joined MicroPort Orthopedics in January 2014 as vice president international; he was then promoted to chief operations officer of the company. Sahagun has also been a member of MicroPort Scientific’s Intercontinental Executive Committee since its inception in early 2014.

According to the September 9, 2015 news release, Sahagun was formerly with Wright Medical as the corporate officer and the vice president of Europe, Middle East and Africa Commercial Operations since 2011, and had previously served as vice president of sales for the region since 2010. He joined Wright Medical in early 2006 as director of finance and operations in France, and served as both director of finance of EMEA and vice president of finance of EMEA prior to the positions above. Before Wright Medical, Sahagun worked for Medtronic where he provided senior financial support to the company’s spine business across Europe.

Sahagun earned an MBA degree at HEC (Paris, France), a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from UAM (Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain), and has participated in Executive Education programs at Stanford Graduate School of Business (Stanford, California) and Harvard Business School (Cambridge, Massachusetts).

Aurelio Sahagun told OTW, “As we move forward, sales will be our number one focus. Supporting our commercial efforts will guide most of our key business decisions, and we will keep building on our proven and differentiated technologies: our hip portfolio includes some of the most advanced tissue sparing techniques, and our Medial Pivot knee offering provides enhanced quadricep efficiency; these techniques are fast forwarding the process of recovery and allowing patients to return to increased activity levels at an accelerated rate.”

“While we grow our business we will continue to maintain a rigorous control over our spending, maximizing the return on the investments that will allow us to reach our corporate profitability targets; every employee in our company contributes to our revenue efforts, and we will be very intentional about creating the appropriate company culture that reflects so.”

“I have the chance of working with a very strong executive team, and we will be the reflection of how we expect our company to behave: with one voice and supportive of each other. I am confident in the bright future we have ahead of us. Through open dialogue, a culture of empowerment and accountability, and a high sense of urgency, I have no doubt in our ability to materially grow our business and foster across our company and with our customers a sense of pride working for and with MicroPort Orthopedics.”