Medical products firm shifts directions, plots global expansion

Even with two decades of solid proof, industry product knowledge remains a core task for a medical device firm.

  • By Mark Gordon
  • | 6:00 a.m. January 25, 2019
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Mark Wemple. Kurt Vadelund, vice president of operations, works with other Biolife executives, including CEO Stuart Jones.
Mark Wemple. Kurt Vadelund, vice president of operations, works with other Biolife executives, including CEO Stuart Jones.
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Veteran manufacturing and biotech executive Stuart Jones had a stern warning in spring 2013 for the board of Manatee County wound-care products company Biolife. 

“I told them, ‘If you don’t want this to be a really large company, then don’t move me,’” from Orlando, says Jones, where he was running a consulting business. “Don’t hire me.”

 

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