COSMED - The Metabolic Company
Kevin Jessop has a diverse work experience spanning over two decades. Kevin began their career in 1999 as a Business Manager, Swim Coach, and Personnel Manager at Freestyles, Ltd. Kevin implemented a new training program for a swim team and created the organization's first website.
In 2001, Kevin joined Accumed Diagnostics as a Manager, where they were responsible for sales, marketing, service, and billing for the startup medical diagnostics company. Kevin also performed Cardiopulmonary and Pulmonary Function Testing in physicians' offices.
From 2002 to 2003, Kevin served as the Vice President of Clinical Services at CPX inc. Here, they developed and implemented a training program for the startup diagnostic testing company and created a program for analyzing and interpreting Cardiopulmonary and Pulmonary Function Testing.
Kevin then joined Met-test in 2003 as the Director of Clinical Services. Their responsibilities included designing and implementing an interpretation algorithm for Cardiopulmonary and Pulmonary Function Tests, managing a team of Exercise Technologists, and conducting Physician Education Seminars.
From 2008 to 2013, Kevin held multiple roles at Cosmed USA. Kevin started as a Clinical Application/Product Specialist, then became the Installation and Training Manager for Cardiopulmonary. Later, they served as the Education and Training Coordinator and finally as the Applications and Training Manager. Kevin managed the applications and training team, coordinated customer visits, and developed training programs for both internal and external customers.
In 2013, Kevin joined Apple as part of the Health Technologies team. Kevin developed testing methods and procedures for the Health and Fitness features of the Apple Watch, working as a cross-functional team member of research and development.
Finally, since 2017, Kevin has been the Director of Education and Training at COSMED Srl.
Kevin Jessop attended the University at Buffalo from 1994 to 1999, where they earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Exercise Science.
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COSMED - The Metabolic Company
Founded in 1980, with global headquarters in Rome (Italy), COSMED is a privately owned company manufacturing Cardio Pulmonary, Metabolic and Body Composition diagnostic equipment. Since its foundation, COSMED primary goal has always been to improve the quality of its products and services through innovation and superior customer service. COSMED started its business designing and manufacturing Spirometers. In the early 80s, COSMED introduced a very innovative portable desktop-sized spirometer named Pony, which was immediately successful in the European and Asian markets with more than 20,000 units sold globally. In the mid 90s COSMED designed the first portable metabolic analyzer, the K4. This truly innovative device broke new grounds with metabolic measurements and rapidly became the best selling oxygen measurement device in Education, Sports Science and Research. In 2011, COSMED further enhanced its already extensive offerings with the acquisition of Life Measurement, Inc. (LMI), a leading US provider of gold-standard body composition assessment systems to be used with infants, children and adults. Nowadays, COSMED is an EN13485 certified company and manufactures a full range of Spirometers, Pulmonary Function, Metabolic and Body Composition assessment systems. COSMED products are designed to meet the latest recommendations and guidelines from leading scientific organizations, including American Thoracic Society (ATS), the European Respiratory Society (ERS), the American Heart Association (AHA) and the American College of Sport Medicine (ACSM). All COSMED products meet CE mark, IEC 60601-1/EN 60 601-1 and FDA 510(K) and other various international certifications. COSMED is a world-wide organization with direct operations in the United States, Australia, Switzerland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Denmark, Hong Kong and the UK, in addition to a distributor network covering more than 80 countries.