iCAD adds Ecock to board

iCAD has appointed Anthony F. Ecock to its board of directors, increasing the number of directors to eight. 

Ecock, previously a senior operating executive with the private equity firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, and former vice president and general manager of GE Healthcare, brings more than nine years of healthcare technology experience and more than 15 years of senior management experience at companies including GE Healthcare and Hewlett Packard, according to the Nashua, N.H.-based iCAD.

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