Christian Steiner

Dr. Steiner is a native German and English-speaking sales executive who manages all direct sales and marketing efforts of CytoSorb® in Germany and distributor relationships outside the European Union. Dr. Steiner joins CytoSorbents from Critical Care Competence, a critical-care-focused outsourced sales, and marketing company in Germany, where he was Managing Director. He previously served as the Director of Corporate Marketing for Pulsion Medical Systems AG, a publicly-traded German medical device company focused on non-invasive hemodynamic monitoring, where he was responsible for launching new products such as PiCCO®, establishing physician relationships, building market awareness, initiating clinical studies, and helping to grow sales to approximately €30 million. Prior to that, as Director of Global Marketing at Teraklin AG, he led the clinical introduction of MARS™, which at that time was a completely new blood purification technology being spun out of the University of Rostock, Germany, that was eventually purchased by Gambro AB.