Medicsight names new CFO

Medicsight Inc. recently announced that Allan Rowley has been appointed chief financial officer and director, replacing interim CFO and director, Glyn Thomas.
           
Rowley most recently served as Finance Director of both Medicsight plc and Medicexchange.com, both subsidiaries of Medicsight Inc. Prior to joining Medicsight in April 2006, Rowley served in a corporate development role at ComMedica Limited, a United Kingdom-based medical software company specializing in PACS software. In this role he worked on financing and acquisition opportunities and on commercial proposals with the sales and finance group. Before joining ComMedica, Rowley was revenue controller and a director of European Finance at Bea Systems, a U.S.-based software company.

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