Smith & Nephew plc Appoints Group Strategy & Business Development Director

Smith & Nephew plc Appoints Group Strategy & Business Development
Director 


LONDON, October 5  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Smith & Nephew plc (LSE:SNLSE:
NYSE:LSE:SNN), is pleased to announce that Sarah Byrne-Quinn has joined the
company as Group Director, Strategy & Business Development. Reporting to Sir
Christopher O'Donnell, Chief Executive, Sarah will be based in London and
responsible for leading Smith & Nephew's International business development and
her role will include working closely with senior management to develop the
company's overall strategy.

Ms Byrne-Quinn, has previously worked in the US and UK with Ameritech, Merrill
Lynch, NatWest Markets and Robert Fleming leading and managing a number of
successful strategic initiatives and international mergers and acquisitions.
Most recently she was Senior Vice-President of Strategy and Corporate
Development at Cable & Wireless, where she led the corporate strategy and
business development functions.

Smith & Nephew has made three acquisitions this year: MMT, the Birmingham
Hip-Resurfacing implant company for its orthopaedics business; Reed Medical, an
audio visual systems integrator to strengthen its endoscopic digital operating
room business; and Versajet, a water-jet wound de-brider product for the
advanced wound management business.

Commenting on this appointment, Sir Christopher O'Donnell said: "We are very
pleased that Sarah has joined the Smith and Nephew team -- we are looking
forward to utilising her broad experience of mergers and acquisitions and
business development. Smith & Nephew continues to grow both organically as well
as through acquisitions and Sarah's background is an ideal fit to join our team
as we take this strategy forward." 

DATASOURCE: Smith & Nephew plc



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