Beth Putnam

Beth Putnam is a respected and forward leaning commercial innovation professional with over 30 years of experience in healthcare supply organizations, medical device companies and diagnostics businesses. She has led multiple sales organizations, professional education and KOL initiatives at large Fortune 500 healthcare companies and small startup medical device organizations. She has also bought, operated and successfully exited two independent businesses.

Beth has held leadership positions at Baxter Healthcare, Cardinal Health, Given Imaging, and Covidien. Her early career at Baxter built a strong, cross departmental platform with leadership roles in sales, operations, quality systems, product management and national accounts. While at Cardinal Health as the Director of Federal Accounts she was recognized for her service to Fort Bragg and Womack Army Hospital in readiness partnership during Desert Storm.

She later led the integration of the physician office business at Bergen Brunswick with Cardinal Health as the SE Regional VP of Sales. She took that skill set to Given Imaging in 2005 where she led a scale up of the commercial operations and built out a 120 strong sales team in the US. She served as VP US Sales, VP US Commercial Excellence and VP Professional Education and KOL management. She was the US Commercial VP at the time of the Given’s billion dollar exit to Covidien in 2014.

Beth has a BS in Biology from the University of Tampa, MT(ASCP) from Duke School of Medicine and an MBA from Nova Southeastern University.