Varian of Palo Alto, California will add Anat Ashkenazi, SVP, controller, and CFO at Lilly Research Labs, to its board of directors; she will serve on its audit and ethics and compliance committees. Ashkenazi’s career at Lilly has spanned 17 years; she holds an MBA from Tel Aviv University.
Accuray of Sunnyvale, California has promoted its interim CFO Shig Hamamatsu to SVP and CFO. Hamamatsu joined Accuray as its VP of financing and Chief Accounting Officer in September 2017, and was named interim CFO October 1, 2018. He was previously VP and corporate controller at Cepheid, VP of finance and corporate controller at Cypress Semiconductor Corporation, and began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
ViewRay of Cleveland, Ohio named Robert M. Fuchs its chief human resources officer. Fuchs was previously SVP and global human resources officer for Advanced Energy, and has been SVP and global human resources officer for Spectranetics.
Chuck Neumann, principal and health system leader of the Boston, Massachusetts-based The Cambridge Group, Inc., will retire at year’s end. Since 2014, Neumann has served in several roles at KentuckyOne Health, as interim leader at Saint Joseph London and University of Louisville Hospital, and most recently as interim president of the KentuckyOne Health system. Neumann also worked in leadership roles at St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson, Maryland, Bon Secours Health System, Inc. in Marriottsville, Maryland, and at local Bon Secours health systems in Florida, Kentucky, and Maryland. Neumann has also collaborated with FTI Healthcare Group. He plans to spend time with his retired wife and family, pursuing personal interests.
Donna Lynne has been named SVP and COO of the New York, New York-based Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC), and CEO of ColumbiaDoctors, effective January 15, 2019. Lynne is currently lieutenant governor and COO for the State of Colorado; prior to those roles, she was EVP of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc. and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, and group president for its Colorado, Pacific Northwest, and Hawaii regions. Lynne also spent 20 years working in various positions in New York City government. She holds an MPA from George Washington University and a Doctor of Public Health from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, where she has been an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Public Health since 2005.
CompliancePoint of Duluth, Georgia has added Carol Amick as manager of its healthcare practice. Amick spent four years as the compliance director of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, has been an internal audit sirector at Skilled Healthcare, and was manager of risk and advisor services with KMPG.