Management Team
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President and Chief Executive Officer
Eric Le Royer is a medical device industry professional with more than 20 years of leadership experience in global marketing, sales and business management. Since joining Endosense in 2005, he has led the continued development of the company’s proprietary Touch+® fiber optic sensor technology and its flagship product, the TactiCath® force-sensing ablation catheter. Prior to Endosense, Mr. Le Royer spent nearly 15 years at Guidant Corp., where he held various leadership positions on three continents. His most recent roles included vice president of marketing for Europe, general manager of the U.S. carotid and peripheral business unit, and director of the cardiac rhythm management unit in Japan. Mr. Le Royer received his engineering degree (diplôme d’ingénieur) from the Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité in France and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Houston. He also earned a master’s degree in business administration from Columbia University.
Giovanni Leo
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer
Giovanni Leo co-founded Endosense in 2003 to develop novel technology for the catheter ablation treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. Mr. Leo brings to Endosense significant management and engineering experience in the fields of brachytherapy and particle accelerator control systems. Prior to Endosense, Mr. Leo was the director of the Geneva offices for Acrostak Corp., a Boston-Scientific-funded medical device company that developed the only European system for vascular brachytherapy. He was also co-founder of Isotopes and Metals Ltd., an emerging medical device company focused on technology for prostate and gynecological brachytherapy. Isotopes and Metals’ products are now sold by Philips Medical Systems. Mr. Leo previously held a software quality manager position at LeCroy Corp. as well as a CERN fellowship in the Accelerator Technology, Industrial Controls Group. Mr. Leo earned a degree in management engineering from Politecnico of Milano, Italy, following his education at the European School of Varese, Italy.
Andrea Buscaglia
Chief Financial Officer
Andrea Buscaglia brings to Endosense more than 20 years of senior financial experience in the biopharmaceutical, investment banking and accounting sectors. Before joining Endosense, he was chief financial officer of Nitec Pharma AG, a private Basel, Switzerland-based specialty pharmaceutical company. Prior to this, Mr. Buscaglia held various officer-level positions at Geneva-based biotech company Serono (now part of the Merck KGaA Group), including vice president of corporate finance and vice president of corporate development within the company’s business development group. While at Serono, Mr. Buscaglia played a pivotal role in a $2 billion equity offering and New York Stock Exchange listing, as well as investor relations, mergers and acquisitions, and licensing activities. Mr. Buscaglia came to the biopharmaceutical sector following eight years as an investment banker at S.G. Warburg (now UBS) and Deutsche Bank, where he participated in various equity capital markets transactions, including initial public offerings, secondary offerings and public tender offers, and mergers and acquisitions. He began his career as an auditor at Arthur Andersen & Co. Mr. Buscaglia holds a degree in business administration from Bocconi University in Milan.
Laurent Grandidier
Vice President Sales and Marketing
Laurent Grandidier is a seasoned international sales and marketing executive with significant leadership experience in the medical device sector. He has worked for numerous industry-leading companies while living in six European countries as well as Singapore. Mr. Grandidier came to Endosense from Teleflex Medical, where he served as managing director of the French subsidiary. Prior to Teleflex, he held several European marketing management roles at Guidant Corp. and Boston Scientific where he worked in the areas of cardiac rhythm management and cardiac surgery with a particular focus on atrial fibrillation ablation. Mr. Grandidier started his career in the consumer goods industry at Procter & Gamble and also founded a Swedish start-up company that developed a new in-store advertising medium. Mr. Grandidier earned a master of science degree from INSA-Lyon and holds a master’s degree in business administration from INSEAD in Fontainebleau and Singapore.
Hendrik Lambert, Ph.D.
Director of Clinical and Regulatory Affairs
Hendrik Lambert is a clinical engineering professional with deep experience in cardiac and vascular medical devices. Prior to Endosense, he spent eight years at Guidant Corporation, where he was most recently responsible for the company’s Institute for Therapy Advancement. Under his tenure, the Institute implemented 160 training courses per year, training more than 1,600 physician customers and 300 employees, and it became the first privately sponsored training center to organize courses as part of continuing medical education (CME) accreditation. Mr. Lambert also held various roles of increasing responsibility at Guidant, including manager of field clinical engineers and European clinical and research manager. Mr. Lambert previously held numerous clinical engineering positions with InControl, an emerging medical device company focused on the treatment of atrial fibrillation. Under his tenure, the company received a CE Mark for its Metrix implantable defibrillator. Mr. Lambert earned master’s degrees in electronic engineering and biomedical engineering as well as a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from the University of Ghent, Belgium.
Eric Giroud
Director of Operations
Eric Giroud is a quality assurance expert with more than 20 years of experience at both emerging and major international medical device companies and suppliers. Prior to Endosense, Mr. Giroud was director of quality system management for TRB Chemedica SA, Vouvry, Switzerland, where he reorganized the company’s manufacturing department, prepared the company for the successful completion of ISO 13485:2003 certification and set up an advanced enterprise resource planning system. Mr. Giroud previously served in senior operations and engineering positions at various Johnson & Johnson companies. He was operations manager and managing director for Ethicon Sarl, Neuchatel, Switzerland, as well as engineering and facilities manager for Medos, SA, Le Locle, Switzerland, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson’s Codman Franchise. Mr. Giroud also held various project management and engineering positions at Cordis S.A., Sophia Antipolis, France. Mr. Giroud earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical science and a master’s degree in materials science from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines, Paris.