Minnesota Medical Solutions (MinnMed), a division of Vireo Health, has hired a senior engineering manager from Medtronic as its COO. Bob Shimpa joins the the company, which is one of two licensed to sell cannabis extracts in Minnesota, after almost a decade with the medical device company.
CEO Kyle Kingsley said:
In our drive to make state-of-the-art medicines as effective and affordable as possible, we need efficiency experts like Bob to help us improve.
Read Jim Hammerand’s “MinnMed hires Medtronic engineer as operations chief”: http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2015/10/19/minnmed-bob-shimpa-operations-chief-medtronic.html