Dr. Oliver Bärtl joins CorTec’s Executive Leadership Team as CEO.
CorTec GmbH, a young Medical Device company located in Freiburg, Germany, announced that
Dr. Oliver Bärtl has been named chief executive officer.
Bärtl is an experienced medical device executive with expertise in different market segments and geographies. Most recently, Bärtl served as co-CEO of Henke-Sass, Wolf, a hidden champion in the Medical Device market operating in the fields of Endoscopy and Veterinary. Prior to Henke-Sass, Wolf, Bärtl worked 13 years in different executive management roles for Stryker, one of the world’s leading medical technology companies. Bärtl received his PhD on value based management from the University of Zürich, Switzerland.
“We are pleased to welcome Oliver Bärtl as CorTec’s CEO,” commented Prof. Dr. Klaus Mangold, chairman of the CorTec Advisory Board. “Oliver Bärtl is a highly regarded leader in the medical device industry, with a proven track record of building great businesses and creating shareholder value. We’re confident that Oliver Bärtls vision, operational discipline, and commercial acumen make him the ideal addition to CorTec’s executive leadership team.”
“I am very excited about the opportunity to join CorTec, a company pioneering in the communication with the brain and thereby enabling the development of novel therapies that will ultimately improve the lives of people with neurological dysfunctions” commented Bärtl. “We have an exceptionally strong team, a fantastic technology, and leading-edge products in the pipeline – CorTec is well positioned and poised to make a difference in the neurotechnology space. Priorities for us are to further grow the business and to have the first Brain Interchange® System implanted in a human.”
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