Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> November 1, 2002
RAYMOND W. COHEN has served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of
Cardiac Science, Inc., since 2002 and beforehand was President and CEO
and a member of the Board of Directors from January 1997. Mr. Cohen was
named Entrepreneur of the Year in 2002 by the Orange County Business
Journal and Cardiac Science was named the number one fastest growing
company in Orange County in 2003. Also in 2003, Deloitte and Touch named
Cardiac Science the number three fastest growing company in Southern
California and the 104th fastest growing company in America. Cardiac
Science introduced its initial commercial product in 2000 and generated
$4 million in sales. Since then, the company has grown its revenue to
$62 million with a corresponding market capitalization of approximately
$320 million. Prior to 1997, Mr. Cohen was President of Diagnostic
Monitoring, a privately held manufacturer and international distributor
of non-invasive cardiac monitoring devices which was acquired by Cardiac
Science in 1997. From 1982 Mr. Cohen held various positions in the
medical device arena including Vice President, Sales and Marketing for
Brentwood Instruments, Inc., a publicly held cardiology products
distribution company based in Torrance, California, where he was
instrumental in the company being ranked in Inc. magazine's list of
Fastest Growing Small Public Companies from 1986 through 1988. Mr. Cohen
holds a BS in Business Management from the State University of New York
at Binghamton. Profile
Mr. Cohen: Cardiac Science is in the business of developing,
manufacturing, and selling automated external defibrillators.
