Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> June 18, 2001

Kevin Goodwin – Sonosite (sono)

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
TWST: Could you give us a brief historical sketch of SonoSite and an

overview?

Mr. Goodwin: SonoSite was born a public company in April 1998. Prior to

that we had been a division of what used