Tony Blair

Tony recently joined Zomedica in January 2022. Prior to joining Zomedica, he was a principal founder of BGA Mfg. Services LLC, a manufacturing and operations consulting organization. Tony was COO of Cardiox Corporation from 2012 through 2016, a privately held company that developed, manufactured, and marketed drug-device combination products for the structural heart and liver markets. Tony has more than 30 years of operations leadership experience in the medical device and pharmaceutical industries.

Before joining Cardiox in 2012, Tony served as VP of Manufacturing for Devicor Medical Products, the parent corporation of Mammotome, a global company dedicated to acquiring and growing healthcare companies which subsequently acquired Neoprobe, a public company, where he served as Vice President, of Manufacturing Operations.

Prior to Neoprobe, Tony served as Vice President, Manufacturing Operations of Enpath Medical, from 2002 to 2004 which acquired Biomec Cardiovascular, Inc.

From 1998 through 2001, Tony led the manufacturing efforts at Astro Instrumentation, a medical device contract manufacturer. He was part of the leadership of the company from its initial start-up in 1998. Prior to Astro, he spent 10 years at Ciba-Corning Diagnostics (now Bayer), in various managerial capacities including Operations Manager, Materials Manager, Purchasing Manager, and Production Supervisor. Before that, he was employed by Bailey Controls and held various positions increasing in responsibility in purchasing and industrial engineering. Mr. Blair started his career at Fisher Body a division of General Motors in production supervision.

He holds a Bachelors’s degree in Business Administration from Cleveland State University.