TeraMedica hires zone vice presidents

TeraMedica has named Bill Knight and John Galasso as zone vice presidents with the Milwaukee-based technology healthcare company.
   
TeraMedica said it hired Knight and Galasso to further sales efforts of the company's Evercore suite of products to the global healthcare technology market.
   
Knight, with a long history in the healthcare IT sphere, was formerly director at EMC Corp. where he helped spearhead the company's first healthcare organization. Galasso joins TeraMedica from Hitachi Data Systems where he helped develop the healthcare vertical worldwide.

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