Af­ter 13 years, Ramy Mah­moud steps in­to CEO seat at Opti­nose; Ru­pert Vessey set to ex­it Bris­tol My­ers in Ju­ly

Af­ter 13 years as pres­i­dent and COO at Opti­nose, Ramy Mah­moud has stepped in­to a new role as its CEO. He is tak­ing the place of Pe­ter Miller, who stepped down ear­li­er this week, though Miller is still stay­ing with the com­pa­ny as a con­sul­tant.

In 2010, the two busi­ness part­ners joined Opti­nose to take it in a new di­rec­tion, trans­form­ing it from a de­liv­ery plat­form to prod­uct com­pa­ny. They pre­vi­ous­ly worked to­geth­er at John­son & John­son, when Miller was pres­i­dent at Janssen and Mah­moud head­ed med­ical af­fairs. Miller said af­ter he learned about Opti­nose, “I did what I al­ways do, which is find peo­ple smarter than me to talk with about the idea. And the first per­son I called was Ramy … and I said, ‘Hey, Ramy, what do you think of this tech­nol­o­gy?’”

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