PDC – St. John Appoints John Park as VP, Marketing for North America Healthcare

Precision Dynamics Corporation – St. John announced that it has appointed John Park as the company’s vice president of marketing for North America healthcare. Most recently, Park was vice president, global marketing for Baxter Healthcare Corporation’s BioScience division, responsible for the global strategy of its $3 billion hemophilia franchise.

Park will be responsible for the management of Precision Dynamics – St. John’s North American healthcare marketing, marketing services, R&D, database and sales operations teams. He will report to Tracey Carpentier, executive vice president and chief commercialization officer.

Park joins Precision Dynamics – St. John with more than 15 years of leadership experience in building and leading results-oriented commercial teams. He spent 11 years at Baxter in various strategy, product management, and marketing leadership roles. As vice president for global marketing, he directed cross-functional commercial development teams toward approval of next generation products and business development opportunities.

Prior to Baxter, Park worked for CSC Healthcare Group, a healthcare consulting company, where he managed the strategy consulting for Fortune 500 life sciences organizations. Park has a bachelor of arts, biological sciences degree from UC Santa Barbara, and an MBA degree and doctor of pharmacy degree from USC. He is also a registered pharmacist.

“John brings extensive experience and a proven track record in driving successful and innovative product management, brand strategy, business development and lead-generation programs for successful healthcare organizations,” Carpentier said. “John’s broad based, in-depth range of expertise and leadership will help Precision Dynamics – St. John to grow its existing markets and expand into new healthcare applications. His expertise and leadership will be instrumental in supporting our company’s main focus of providing customers with outstanding products and services that support their goals of patient safety and efficient care management.”

“I am pleased and privileged for the responsibility of leading Precision Dynamics – St. John’s marketing team for North America healthcare,” Park said. “The company has a remarkable reputation as a leading pioneer and innovator of patient safety solutions. With the merger of Precision Dynamics and St. John’s earlier this year, and its tremendous potential as a global leader in the industry, I feel that I am joining the organization at an extremely exciting point in the company’s development.”