Leadership Team

Kevin M. Goodwin, President and Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Goodwin has led SonoSite since its spin-off from ATL Ultrasound in April 1998. He joined ATL in 1987 in sales and was promoted to vice president and general manager for ATL’s business in Asia Pacific, Latin America, Australia, and Canada (APLAC) in 1991. From 1997 until the spin-off, Mr. Goodwin was vice president and general manager of ATL Ultrasound’s Handheld Systems Business Group. Mr. Goodwin began his career in medical products with American Hospital Supply Corporation as a national distribution manager, followed by a position with Picker International as area manager for the southeastern United States. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Monmouth College of Illinois, with an emphasis on hospital management, and completed the Executive Program at Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

 

Anil Amlani, Chief Financial Officer

As President and CEO of VisualSonics, Mr. Amlani is responsible for setting the strategic direction of the company and managing its successful short-term and long-term operations, financial management, corporate strategic development, and long-term planning. Mr. Amlani joined the VisualSonics team in 2005. Prior to VisualSonics, Mr. Amlani was COO and CFO at MDS Proteomics Inc., where he successfully restructured and refocused the organization, obtaining new financing, adding new products and revenue, and achieving cost reductions. Previously, he was senior vice president and CFO at Cancom (Canadian Satellite Communications/Star Choice) where his accomplishments included raising more than $600 million in financing. Other past experience includes head of finance, Commercial and Retail Banking at TD Bank; senior vice president, Wholesale Division at AT&T Canada; and senior vice president, Strategic Planning and New Business Development at AT&T Canada. Mr. Amlani obtained his Chartered Accountancy designation in London, England and in Canada.
 

Anne M. Bugge, Vice President, Global Public Health

Ms. Bugge joined SonoSite in 2005 as vice president of corporate affairs and was responsible for SonoSite's corporate marketing and investor communications worldwide. She was appointed to her current position in October 2009 to lead the company’s initiatives in the developing world. Prior to SonoSite, Ms. Bugge worked with the EVC Group, an investor and corporate communications firm specializing in advising small cap companies. She also served as vice president of corporate and investor relations for ATL Ultrasound, Inc. from 1987 until its acquisition by Philips Medical Systems in 1998. Ms. Bugge received a bachelor's degree in journalism from Michigan State University, continued academic studies at the University of Oslo, and completed the Executive Program at Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
 

Matthew Damron, Global Chief Marketing Officer

A veteran advertising and marketing executive, Mr. Damron joined SonoSite in 2011 from TBWA/Chiat/Day, a world leading communications agency known for executing highly creative and successful work. At TBWA, Mr. Damron led the WorldHealth division and the global accounts for medical device manufacturers, hospital systems, and a worldwide pharmaceutical firm. Prior to TBWA, he held positions of increasing responsibility and impact at McCann Erickson and other organizations.


 

Ronald S. Dickson, Vice President, Musculoskeletal Imaging and Government Accounts

Mr. Dickson joined SonoSite in 1999 as a regional sales director and was vice president of sales from 2000 to 2002. He was involved with SonoSite when it was a business group within ATL Ultrasound and served as ATL’s liaison to the U.S. military in the evaluation of the early system prototype. At ATL Ultrasound from 1984 until 1999, Mr. Dickson served in various roles with increasing responsibility, including sales representative, regional sales manager, and government accounts manager. Prior to ATL, Mr. Dickson was a sales representative for United States Surgical Corporation. He attended Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon.

 

Richard Gaevert, Vice President, Operations

Mr. Gaevert was one of the first SonoSite employees after the company’s spin-off from ATL Ultrasound, Inc. Initially joining as a manager and then promoted to director of operations to oversee the manufacturing relationship with ATL, Mr. Gaevert was subsequently responsible for designing and opening SonoSite’s manufacturing facility. From 1989 to 1998, as an ATL employee, Mr. Gaevert served in a variety of engineering, program management, and operations management roles. At SonoSite, Mr. Gaevert also had the responsibilities of managing new product implementation, service operations, transducer manufacturing, and the pick-and-pack process. He was promoted to his current position in 2008 and is responsible for creating and sustaining corporate mechanisms to drive quality improvements throughout product life cycles. He received both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Washington.
 

Jim Gilmore, Senior Vice President Product Innovation and Delivery

Mr. Gilmore rejoined SonoSite in 2006. Previously, he served as global engineering manager for global ultrasound probes at GE Healthcare, where he was responsible for all aspects of product definition, design, development and manufacturing engineering support of diagnostic ultrasound transducers. Mr. Gilmore was one of the original engineers at SonoSite when the company spun off from ATL Ultrasound in 1998. He served as the director of transducer engineering for six years. He was honored as an ATL Technical Fellow for innovation and technical leadership and is named as an inventor on three patents for transducer technology. Mr. Gilmore received both his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and his master’s degree in biomedical engineering from Drexel University.
 

Juin-Jet Hwang, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer

Dr. Hwang is one of SonoSite’s original founding employees and is responsible for the development of corporate technology strategy. He joined ADR Ultrasound in 1980, where he was involved in the development of the ADR 4000 system, a portable array imaging system (ADR Ultrasound merged with ATL Ultrasound in 1983). Dr. Hwang served as chief scientist in ATL’s Handheld Systems Business Group until its spin-off in April 1998. Dr. Hwang holds 34 patents and is the author of more than 30 scientific publications. He was honored as an ATL Technical Fellow in Perpetuity in 1988. He holds a master’s degree from the National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan and a doctorate from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, both in electrical engineering.

 

Brian Leck, Vice President, U.S. Sales

Mr. Leck joined SonoSite in November 2008 as Regional Business Director for the South Central Region. He transitioned into his new position as Vice President of U.S. Sales in April 2011. Prior to joining SonoSite, he served as a regional manager for GE Healthcare, promoting its Lunar bone density line. He also worked within several other divisions of GE Healthcare. Mr. Leck began his medical sales career in 1983 for Ohio Medical Products as a sales representative. He held positions of increasing responsibility, including sales representative, product specialist, strategic account manager, regional sales manager, and director of sales as the company evolved and grew as both Ohmeda and Datex-Ohmeda before it was acquired by GE Healthcare. He attended the University of Texas at Arlington.
 

Art Lounsbery, Vice President, Engineering

Mr. Lounsbery joined SonoSite in 2008. Prior to joining SonoSite, he was responsible for the Datalink Communication Product line at Honeywell Aerospace, where he led a diverse organization with teams in the United States, China, Russia, and the Czech Republic. Previous to Honeywell, Mr. Lounsbery was the director of program execution for the Desktop Applications group at Rational Software. He has also served in multiple management roles in the defense and space division of The Boeing Company. Mr. Lounsbery received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Washington.


 

Diku Mandavia, MD, Senior Vice President, Chief Medical Officer

Diku Mandavia, MD, FACEP, FRCPC, joined SonoSite as a medical advisor in 2007 and currently serves as Chief Medical Officer. He is also a Clinical Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Southern California and is an Attending Staff Physician at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Dr. Mandavia is a founding member and past-chair of the ACEP Ultrasound Section and co-author of the ACEP Ultrasound Guidelines. He has taught thousands of physicians worldwide, lectured at over 150 national and international conferences and was awarded ACEP’s Outstanding Speaker of the Year in 2004. Dr. Mandavia has also contributed to over 40 publications and is co-director of the national Resuscitation Conference. He received his medical degree from Memorial University in Canada and completed his residency at Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center and is a graduate of the Stanford Executive Program.
 

Mehran Mehrtash, Vice President & General Manager, Asia Pacific and the Middle East

In his role as VP and general manager, Mr. Mehrtash will accelerate the growth and development of the Asia Pacific and Middle East region. Mr. Mehrtash is well suited to this endeavor. For the past decade, he held positions of increasing responsibility both in the U.S. and Asia for ConvaTec, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of medical technologies. While at ConvaTec, Mr. Mehrtash most recently served as the general manager of the North Asia Pacific region and managed all commercial and operational priorities for the Asia region. Prior to ConvaTec, Mr. Mehrtash held general management positions at Goldwell/Aveda.

Mary K. Moore, Vice President, Regulatory Affairs

Ms. Moore joined SonoSite in October 2009 bringing with her more than 20 years of experience in regulatory affairs in the health industry. Having previously held several executive-level and senior management positions, Ms. Moore most recently served as the Vice President of Regulatory Affairs at NeuroVista Corporation in Seattle, where she oversaw regulatory programs for the design and development of a class III neurology medical device for the management of seizures. Prior to NeuroVista, she was also the Vice President of Regulatory Affairs at Cardiac Dimensions and Tripath Imaging. Ms Moore started her career in the Regulatory Affairs department at ATL (now Philips.). She holds a bachelor’s degree in Biology from Gonzaga University and a Master of Science in Engineering from the University of Washington.
 

Jack Sparacio, Chief Operating Officer

Mr. Jack Sparacio is a seasoned medical device executive with more than 30 years of experience in healthcare. He previously served as the President, CEO, and Owner of Plastic Engineering and Development (PED) Company, a custom manufacturer of plastic components and medical devices for healthcare and bio science markets. Under his leadership, the company tripled its sales revenue and EBITDA during his tenure. Additionally, Mr. Sparacio was an executive in the ultrasound industry, serving as the Worldwide Vice President of Sales and Service at Advanced Technology Laboratories (ATL), SonoSite’s former parent company. Mr. Sparacio was also previously the President and CEO of IMED, an intravenous infusion therapy system company and Lang Manufacturing, a local private company from the Seattle area. Mr. Sparacio earned a bachelor of arts degree in business administration and education from Western Michigan University with additional studies at Northwestern University School of Business at Columbia University.
 

David G. Willis, Vice President, Competitive Strategy and Innovation

Mr. Willis first joined SonoSite in 1999 and was instrumental in shaping the product direction and market positioning of the company’s first product, the 180 system. Mr. Willis was vice president of sales and marketing for Ultrasonix, a privately held diagnostic ultrasound company based in Canada, from 2003 until 2006 when he rejoined SonoSite in his current position. From 1989 to 1999, Mr. Willis worked at ATL Ultrasound and Philips Medical Systems, where he held positions in clinical marketing and international sales. He was also a sonographer at the Health Sciences Center in Winnipeg, Canada and is a registered medical sonographer (RDMS, RDCS). He completed the Executive Education Program at the Wharton School of Business.