CMR Surgical Makes Senior Leadership Team Appointments

CMR Surgical has appointed Markus Bauman as Chief Legal & Business Affairs Officer, and Michelle Paknad as Senior Vice President of Global Business Development.
 
Supratim Bose, Chief Executive Officer at CMR Surgical, commented: “On behalf of the leadership team, I am delighted to welcome Markus and Michelle to CMR. Markus will be a key addition to the executive leadership team with his wealth of expertise in corporate law, strategic relations and financial operations. Michelle, with her extensive soft-tissue surgical robotics experience, will be instrumental in accelerating our commercial efforts and we look forward to utilising her skillset.”
 
Markus Bauman has over two decades of in-house legal experience, as well as experience at global world-renowned law firms. He has worked with innovative European companies and has significant expertise in public and private company financings and mergers and acquisitions. 
 
Previously, he served as Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel at Matillion, a software company specializing in data integration and transformation for cloud data warehouses. Before Matillion, he was a Partner and Head of European Strategic Relations at Goodwin and built his expertise at other leading international law firms and investment banks, including JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs. 
 
Bauman is currently a member of the Atomico Expert Network, providing counsel and support to Atomico’s portfolio of technology firms, and is a Board Member of the University of Illinois Foundation. 
 
Bauman said: “Given my experience of working with ambitious disruptive European businesses, I am looking forward to bringing my legal expertise to a company that is challenging the status quo in order to help bring more robotic-assisted surgery to patients around the world. Versius is a truly innovative technology, and I will work with the leadership team to ensure hospitals can realise the potential of this technology.”
 
As Senior VP of Global Business Development, Paknad will be responsible for helping to accelerate the CMR’s commercial efforts to bring Versius to more hospitals around the world. Paknad brings over 20 years of leadership experience in the medical devices sector, with particular expertise in sales and marketing, within the area of soft-tissue surgical robotics. 
 
She was most recently Vice President of Global Robotics and Digital Health at Smith & Nephew where she ran the robotics franchise. Before this, she held senior positions at Intuitive Surgical, including Director of Sales and Marketing for Asia Pacific. 
 
Paknad said: “I am excited to join a Company that is looking to disrupt the surgical robotics market. Soft-tissue surgical robotics is such a fast-growing and changing market, and I look forward to bringing my extensive experience in this industry to partner with surgeons and hospitals so that more patients can get the benefits of robotic-assisted surgery with Versius.”