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Extera Partners Expands Senior European Leadership Team

February 1, 2009

Dr. Jörg Ströbel will lead Extera Partners' European medical product commercialization services.

Dr. Jörg Ströbel has joined Extera Partners to lead a new commercialization service for medical products targeting European markets. He is an experienced senior executive, who until recently served as the CEO of Ziehm Imaging GmbH. During his tenure with Ziehm, Jörg positioned Ziehm as a dominant market leader in Europe and increased company revenues to over $100M. Previously, Jörg lead the multimillion dollar implantable cardiac pacemakers business of Biotronik GmbH & Co. KG, introducing innovative pacemakers into markets throughout Europe.

Leveraging Extera's extensive network of business leaders, reimbursement, and regulatory experts, Dr. Ströbel will focus his activities on pre-launch planning, launch execution, and on-the-ground post launch management for new products that are targeting entry into European markets.

"We are exceptionally pleased to have Dr. Ströbel join Extera Partners. He has an impressive track record and his European focused, hospital based sales and marketing expertise will complement Extera's service model, which combines interim management and pragmatic consulting for our clients to provide tangible business results" says Dr. Jonathan Reis, Managing Partner.

"I am very excited to join Extera Partners. Its business approach, shared risk model, and experienced team puts us in a unique position to support our clients in achieving their goals and extending the market reach of their products", Dr. Ströbel added.



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