NovaRay hires medical imaging exec as its CEO

NovaRay, a developer of digital cardiac x-ray imaging technology and the ScanCath cardiac catheterization system, has appointed Jack E. Price to the position of CEO and president.

Price joined NovaRay as a director in June 2005. From December 2003 to July 2006, Price was president and CEO of VSM, an Ontario, Canada-based medical imaging company. Prior to that, he was president and CEO of Philips Medical Systems, North America from 1996 to 2003.

Price also spent five years with GE Medical Systems, where he held various positions including the general manager of the global x-Ray Business and the vice president of marketing for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, according to the Newark, Calif.-based NovaRay.

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