February 4, 2026 – ZOLL® proclaims that it has appointed Eric Knudsen as its new Chief Govt Officer, efficient April 1. Knudsen succeeds Jon Rennert, who served as CEO of ZOLL for the previous decade, and can tackle a brand new function as government chairman of ZOLL’s board of administrators.

Knudsen has almost 30 years of expertise within the medtech trade, with deep experience in enterprise improvement and company technique. He led ZOLL’s Company Growth workforce for six years and was chargeable for investing in strategic relationships and buying greater than a dozen new applied sciences.

For the previous 4 years, Knudsen has served as president of ZOLL Itamar, a division of ZOLL centered on the prognosis of sleep problems. Knudsen led the division by way of vital progress and a dramatic improve in profitability.

Earlier than becoming a member of ZOLL in 2013, Knudsen held management positions in worldwide gross sales, advertising and marketing and manufacturing partnerships at Covidien (now Medtronic), Side Medical Methods and LeMaitre Vascular. He holds an MBA from Thunderbird College of International Administration and a bachelor’s diploma from Boston School.

Rennert was named CEO of ZOLL in 2016 after eight years as president of the corporate’s largest enterprise unit. Beneath Rennert’s management as CEO, ZOLL expanded its attain as a worldwide chief in exterior defibrillation, pioneered new options for sufferers with critical cardiopulmonary and respiratory ailments, and considerably expanded its product portfolio.

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