Executive news: CoActiv Medical

Richard Glenn was named southwest regional sales manager for CoActiv Medical. In that position, Glenn will be responsible for sales initiatives for all CoActiv PACS products, including EXAM-PACS, EXAM-Vault Quad-Redundant Archiving, EXAM-Filer CD Creation System and all AGFA Computed Radiography (CR) and AGFA Drystar Imagers products in a 10-state territory as the part of the company’s major national sales expansion efforts.

Prior to joining CoActiv, for six years Richard Glenn was owner of a full-service PACS and CR consulting business in Texas. Glenn also has over six years of PACS, CR, DR and RIS hardware and software sales experience with RealTimeImage, Blue Ridge X-Ray and Logical Approach.

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