Mr. Jim Thomsen - Co-Founder, Executive Vice President Vidacare Corporation
Jim joined the Exciton board in September, 2011 and is a member of the governance committee. Vidacare, based near San Antonio is privately owned and sells patented EZ-IO Intraosseous Infusion Systems on a world scale. Mr. Thomsen is a seasoned medical-device sales & marketing executive with over 30 years of experience in healthcare and medical devices (12 years in IV access products). He was consistently number one in sales with Jelco, a division of Johnson & Johnson; US Surgical (sales from $3 million to $1 billion in 5 years); Vicra, a division of Baxter; Pioneer Viggo, a division of BOC; and Intertech Resources. His responsibilities included sales & marketing management, product management, business development, strategic planning, international markets, venture funding and M & A. Highly entrepreneurial, he founded his own medical device distribution company (Intermedway) in 1989 and grew it from $0 to $244 million in revenues in only 6 years. He later raised $65 million for the creation of another device distribution company (Critical Care Concepts) that was later sold to Cardinal Health. Mr. Thomsen will take an active role in commercializing Exciton in the Americas.
