December 16 2024- Adagio Medical Holdings, Inc. announced that founder Olav Bergheim departed as Chief Executive Officer and Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Company, effective December 13, 2024. Concurrently, the Company announced the appointment of Todd Usen, as Chief Executive Officer and Director of the Company and Orly Mishan, as Chairperson of the Board of Directors, effective December 13, 2024. Mr. Bergheim will serve as an advisor to the Company and will support Mr. Usen with the transition through December 13, 2025.
“We are grateful to Olav for his dedication and contributions to Adagio. Under his leadership the Company made substantial clinical and operational strides, and is NASDAQ-listed,” said Orly Mishan. “We are extremely fortunate to add Todd, who has a breadth of commercial and operational experience and a proven track record leading large and complex medical device businesses, to the Adagio team. Todd has demonstrated exceptional leadership in building, restructuring, and growing public and private organizations. His efforts have been driven by a strong focus on corporate development, product innovation, logistics and go-to-market strategies.”
“I’m thrilled to join Adagio at this important junction in the Company’s history, supporting initial commercial efforts in Europe, and the FULCRUM-VT trial enrollment in the United States,” said Todd Usen. “With a growing body of evidence demonstrating both the safety and effectiveness of Adagio’s Ultra-Low Temperature Cryoablation technology and marked enthusiasm of users in both Europe and North America, I believe that Adagio’s VT Cryoablation System with vCLAS catheter will become the future standard of care for treatment of patients with ventricular tachycardia.”
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“It has been an honor to lead Adagio over the last 13 years delivering on our mission of improving the quality of life and long-term outcomes in patients with cardiac arrhythmias. I am proud of what we have accomplished together, and I am confident that Adagio is poised for continued success,” said Olav Bergheim.