Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> October 5, 2000
KEVIN M. GOODWIN is SonoSite, Inc.'s President and CEO, and was Vice
President and General Manager of ATL Ultrasound's Handheld Systems
Business Group from February 1997 until it was spun off in April 1998 to
create SonoSite. Mr. Goodwin began his career in medical products with
American Hospital Supply Corporation as a national distribution manager,
followed by a position with Picker International as Area Manager for the
southeastern United States. In the first year of his subsequent sales
position with American General Healthcare, a division of Baxter
Healthcare, he was named the company's top sales representative. Mr.
Goodwin joined ATL in 1987, and was promoted to Vice President and
General Manager for ATL's business in Asia Pacific, Latin America,
Australia and Canada (APLAC). During his tenure in these positions,
APLAC was ATL's fastest growing business unit, and Mr. Goodwin was
instrumental in establishing several international affiliate companies
and strategic alliances with international partners. Mr. Goodwin holds a
Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Monmouth College,
Monmouth, Illinois, with an emphasis on Hospital Management, and is a
graduate of the Stanford Executive Program, Stanford Graduate School of
Business, Palo Alto, California. Profile
Mr. Goodwin: SonoSite was spun off from what was a public company,
Advanced Technology Laboratories, or ATL Ultrasound, back
