Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> March 11, 2003

Raymond Cohen – Cardiac Science Inc (dfib)

RAYMOND W. COHEN has served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Cardiac Science, Inc., since 2002 and beforehand was President and CEO and a member of the Board of Directors from January 1997. Mr. Cohen was named Entrepreneur of the Year in 2002 by the Orange County Business Journal and Cardiac Science was named the number one fastest growing company in Orange County in 2003. Also in 2003, Deloitte and Touch named Cardiac Science the number three fastest growing company in Southern California and the 104th fastest growing company in America. Cardiac Science introduced its initial commercial product in 2000 and generated $4 million in sales. Since then, the company has grown its revenue to $62 million with a corresponding market capitalization of approximately $320 million. Prior to 1997, Mr. Cohen was President of Diagnostic Monitoring, a privately held manufacturer and international distributor of non-invasive cardiac monitoring devices which was acquired by Cardiac Science in 1997. From 1982 Mr. Cohen held various positions in the medical device arena including Vice President, Sales and Marketing for Brentwood Instruments, Inc., a publicly held cardiology products distribution company based in Torrance, California, where he was instrumental in the company being ranked in Inc. magazine's list of Fastest Growing Small Public Companies from 1986 through 1988. Mr. Cohen holds a BS in Business Management from the State University of New York at Binghamton. Profile
TWST: Would you give us a quick overview of Cardiac Science?

Mr. Cohen: Cardiac Science is in the business of developing,

manufacturing, and selling automatic external defibrillators. We

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