Open House - Global Healthcare 2022: Carmat | Edison Group
Carmat is developing a biocompatible, artificial heart to satisfy the lack of donor hearts available for terminal heart failure patients. It received a CE mark in the EU and Carmat is conducting an early feasibility study in the United States.
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Stéphane Piat, Chief Executive Officer, Carmat
Stéphane Piat joined Carmat as Chief Executive Officer in September 2016. Mr Piat started his career at Becton Dickinson European Headquarters as a Market Researcher in 1995. He was appointed European Platform Leader for Locoregional Anaesthesia five years later. In 2002, he joined Cordis, a Johnson & Johnson company, where he spent five years in several management positions ranging from Business Director France to European Marketing Director for Cardiology. In 2007, he moved to Abbott Vascular as General Manager for mid-size countries, EMEA, and two years later oversaw the integration of Evalve as the company’s General Manager EMEA, heading clinical and commercial development of a new interventional cardiology product, Mitraclip. In 2014, he led Global Market Development of the Abbott Vascular Structural Heart Division in San Francisco as Division Vice President.
