Paragon Names NewChief Compliance Officer Paragon Medical Inc. is raising its quality standards.

Paragon Names NewChief Compliance Officer

Paragon Medical Inc. is raising its quality standards. The Pierceton, Ind.-based company has hired Michael Gosmeyer as chief compliance officer and vice president of quality and regulatory affairs.

In his new role, Gosmeyer will oversee Paragon’s quality compliance efforts around the world. He joins the company from Hill-Rom Services Inc., a Batesville, Ind.-based supplier of hospital beds and stretchers. Gosmeyer spent the last few years at Hill-Rom managing and overseeing the company’s worldwide regulatory and quality systems as well as its interface points with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. His other positions with the firm include director of quality assurance, where he supervised manufacturing operations in Europe, Mexico and the United States.

In addition to his quality management experience, Gosmeyer brings to his new position a strong engineering background and a comprehensive knowledge of Lean manufacturing principles. He has held various engineering management positions in the course of his career, overseeing product engineering, design assurance, product life-cycle management and continuous improvement. Gosmeyer is Six Sigma Greenbelt certified.

“This position demonstrates our ongoing commitment to the medical device industry’s quality and regulatory compliance requirements and our conviction to ensure that our products and services meet and ultimately exceed our customers’ desires and expectations,”
Paragon Chairman, President and CEO Tobias Buck said in prepared remarks. “Mike brings an outstanding level of experience, skills and perspective to Paragon Medical that will only enhance the products we manufacture.”

Gosmeyer holds an MBA and a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind.

Paragon Medical is a Tier 1 supplier of cases, trays, surgical instruments, implantable components and design services to medical device manufacturers.