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STAAR Surgical Strengthens Leadership Team with Appointments of Nancy Sabin as Chief Marketing Officer and Nathaniel Sisitsky as General Counsel
New Appointments Underscore Commitment to Driving Innovation and Industry-Leading Growth LAKE FOREST, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- STAAR Surgical Company
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nNew Appointments Underscore Commitment to Driving Innovation and Industry-Leading Growth\n\n\n LAKE FOREST, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- STAAR Surgical Company (NASDAQ: STAA), a leading developer, manufacturer and marketer of the EVO family of Implantable Collamer® Lenses (EVO ICL™) for myopia, astigmatism and presbyopia, today announced Nancy Sabin has been named Chief Marketing Officer and Nathaniel Sisitsky has been named General Counsel. Both will serve on the Company’s executive committee and report to Tom Frinzi, STAAR Surgical’s President and CEO.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240501408389/en/Nancy Sabin, Chief Marketing Officer, STAAR Surgical (Photo: Business Wire)\n“We are thrilled to strengthen the STAAR team with the addition of Nancy and Nate, two seasoned executives with extensive senior leadership experience. They will play an integral role in accelerating our momentum and thereby growing the market for our surgeon customers who provide patients visual freedom from contact lenses and glasses with our lens-based technology,” said Tom Frinzi, President and CEO of STAAR Surgical. “Nancy is a perfect fit for the newly created Chief Marketing Officer position and will be critical to driving our brand awareness and innovation globally. She is a proven commercial leader with an extensive track record of delivering growth within consumer products, OTC pharmaceuticals and medical devices during her 20-year career with various franchises at Johnson & Johnson. Nate takes on an important role as our new General Counsel overseeing our legal functions globally. Nate brings to STAAR extensive experience providing legal advice and counsel to public companies, including 15 years in med-tech. He joins us from NuVasive where he was instrumental in its successful $3 billion merger with Globus Medical.”\n\n\nFrinzi continued, “I would like to express my utmost gratitude to Sam Gesten, STAAR’s former general counsel, who retired after 12 years of service earlier this year. We are grateful for his tireless work in moving the company forward and wish him all the very best in the future.”\n\n\nNancy Sabin joined the team from Johnson & Johnson (J&J) where she most recently served as VP of Marketing and Connected Commerce for J&J Vision managing based marketing,...