Roger Owens brings 21 years of experience in cardiology medical device sales to Cardiva Medical including cardiac rhythm management (CRM), electrophysiology (EP), coronary, endovascular and structural heart. In his current role, he is responsible for all commercial operations and activities associated with Cardiva’s vascular closure device product line.
Most recently, Owens served on senior staff with Boston Scientific and Abbott Vascular. At Abbott Vascular, he was responsible for serving as the key point of contact with senior level customers and stakeholders in large administrative and institutional health care organizations, as well as identifying novel commercial and health care economic solutions across the entire Abbott Vascular product portfolio. He was also responsible for developing and executing new strategic partnerships with internal divisions of Abbott and external companies.
Prior to this role, Owens served as a Director of Coronary and Endovascular Sales at Abbott Vascular. He also served as an Area Vice President of CRM for Guidant / Boston Scientific and as the Vice President of U.S. Sales for the EP division of Boston Scientific.
Owens holds several degrees from Ohio University, including a B.S. in Biomedical Science, B.A. in Psychology, and M.S. in Cardiac Physiology.