Former Medtronic CEO Joins Ketryx Board

Ketryx, has appointed former Medtronic Chairman/CEO William A. Hawkins to its Board of Directors.

Hawkins, who also participated in Ketryx’s Series B financing, has more than four decades of leadership experience in medical technology and healthcare. As Medtronic’s CEO, he led the medtech behemoth through a period of significant growth and innovation. After retiring from Medtronic in 2011, he helped co-found the Medical Device Innovation Consortium(MDIC), an enterprise attempting to help solve scientific and technical challenges in the medical device industry.

His appointment occurs at a pivotal moment for the medical device and life sciences industries. Organizations are racing to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) across every layer of product development: to help engineers work faster, to power the next generation of software-enabled and AI-driven products, and to reduce the compliance burden that has historically slowed innovation. Yet many are confronting a perceived AI bottleneck—companies want AI everywhere, but lack the infrastructure required to deploy, govern, and scale it safely in highly regulated environments.