Leadership

Every member of the Keystone Dental leadership team is committed to both becoming a trusted partner of our customers and empowering our colleagues and employees. We encourage open communication and collaboration to ensure that the talents and expertise within Keystone and our business partners are brought together to achieve an unparalleled clinician and patient experience.

Pascal Girin

President and Chief Executive Officer

Pascal Girin was appointed President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Keystone Dental in February 2011. Mr. Girin served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Keystone from October 2010 to February 2011. Prior to joining Keystone, Mr. Girin served as Chief Operating Officer of ev3 Inc., a global leader in technologies and solutions for the treatment of peripheral vascular and neurovascular diseases, from the date of its acquisition by Covidien Group in July 2010 until September 2010. Prior to that, he served as ev3 Inc.’s Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer from January 2010 until July 2010, its Executive Vice President and President, Worldwide Neurovascular and International from July 2008 to January 2010, the Senior Vice President and President, International of ev3 International from July 2005 to July 2008, and the General Manager, Europe of ev3 Inc. from September 2003 to July 2005. Prior to joining ev3, Inc., Mr. Girin served in various capacities at BioScience Europe Baxter Healthcare Corporation from September 1998 until August 2003. He received an engineering education at the French Ecole des Mines. Mr. Girin also serves as a director for Tornier, Inc. (NASDAQ:TRNX) which designs, manufactures and markets devices for joint replacement and soft tissue repair.

Mark G. Beucler

Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Beucler joined Keystone Dental in November 2010 and is the Senior Vice President Chief Financial Officer. He is also the General Manager of the Global Distribution Channel. Before joining Keystone, Mr. Beucler served as the Vice President, General Manager of the Global Distribution Channel for Haemonetics Corporation (NYSE:HAE) from 2006 to 2009. From 2002 to 2006, Mr. Beucler was the vice president, finance, chief financial officer and treasurer of Lifeline Systems (NASDAQ:LIFE), which was acquired by Royal Philips Electronics in April 2006. Before joining Lifeline Systems, Mr. Beucler served as senior vice president, corporate controller for Thomson Financial. He joined Thomson Financial in 2000 when The Thompson Corporation, the parent company of Thompson Financial, acquired Primark Corporation, a publicly held NYSE-listed company where he served as corporate controller. From 1995 through 1997, Mr. Beucler was with The Gillette Company. Mr. Beucler is a certified public accountant and previously was an audit manager at Deloitte and Touche.

Christopher J. Gilbert, Ph.D.

Senior Vice President of Science and Technology

Dr. Gilbert leads product development and clinical initiatives at Keystone Dental. Previously he was responsible for west coast operations of the surgical instruments business at Hologic, where he led the final stages of approval and launch of the Adiana permanent contraceptive device. He joined Hologic as a member of the corporate development team via the acquisition of Cytyc in 2008. Prior to Cytyc, he also spent six years at McKinsey & Company where he served medical device clients on a range of critical management issues. Dr. Gilbert holds a Ph.D. in Materials Science from the University of California Berkeley and has published over 20 peer-reviewed journal articles.

Michael Gibbs

Vice President and General Counsel

Michael Gibbs has been the Vice President and General Counsel of Keystone Dental since January 2011. Prior to joining Keystone, Mr. Gibbs was corporate counsel with the law firm Bingham McCutchen, LLP, in Boston, Massachusetts. Prior to working at Bingham McCutchen, he was an officer in the United States Marine Corps and departed with the rank of Major. Mr. Gibbs has a B.S. from Syracuse University and J.D. from Boston College Law School.

Elizabeth Cacciola

Vice President of Operations

Liz Cacciola joined Keystone Dental in March of 2008 as the Director of Global Supply Chain. In May of 2010 Ms. Cacciola was promoted to the VP of Operations. Prior to joining Keystone, Ms. Cacciola was the Director of Operations for Accellent, a medical device contract manufacturer. She joined Accellent in 2006 as Director of Global Supply Chain. Before Accellent, Ms. Cacciola worked at Stryker Biotech in a Supply Chain Management role from 1999 to 2006 and prior to Stryker worked at two medical device venture-capital-funded start-ups: Focal, acquired by Genzyme and Microsurge, acquired by Urohealth. She started her career in Medical Device Supply Chain/ Operations at USCI, Division of CR Bard. Ms. Cacciola has a B.S. degree in Business Administration from the University of New Hampshire and an MBA from Rivier College.

Karen Hunter

Director of Human Resources

Karen Hunter joined Keystone Dental in June, 2008, as Manager of Compensation & Benefits. She then assumed leadership of the Human Resources function in April, 2009. Prior to joining Keystone, Ms. Hunter was the Director of Compensation, Benefits and HR Systems at Interactive Data Corporation for over six years, where she was responsible for the design, implementation and oversight of the company’s global compensation and benefits programs and US HR Information Systems. Prior to joining Interactive Data, Ms. Hunter held various positions within the Human Resources function at BankBoston Corporation and ultimately held the position of Partner in the Rewards Practice Area, where she led a team of professionals who provided strategic benefits and compensation consulting support to executive management and individual lines of business. Ms. Hunter is a graduate of Northeastern University and is actively involved in the New England Employee Benefits Counsel, where she has served as a board member since May, 2008.

Ann Verledens

Director of Sales and Marketing, Europe

Ann Verledens joined Keystone Dental as Director of Sales and Marketing, Europe, in December 2010. She is responsible for the commercial activities of Keystone Dental in Europe—both in the subsidiary and distributor markets. Ms. Verledens’s most recent experience includes over 10 years in the dental industry with companies such as Trophy Radiologie, Kodak Dental Systems and KaVo Dental, where she held various European sales, service and marketing positions. Ms. Verledens is a graduate from the University of Antwerp (Belgium) and holds a postgraduate in Marketing from Napier University in Edinburgh, as well as an MBA from ESCP (Paris). She is fluent in English, French, Dutch and Spanish.