EMP-40

Israel Raz recently left GE Healthcare and joined Given Imaging, the pioneers in capsule endoscopy, as the senior VP and chief marketing officer. The company is public (GIVN) and the position entails global responsibility. The executive and administrative offices are in Atlanta. When not "traveling on business," he will be commuting to Atlanta three to four days a week and may consider relocating in the future. Contact Israel at work, 770.662.0870, ext. 1101, or on his cell at 404.695.3472.

John Mitchell started a new position at Arizona State University as the director of business development of Skysong (skysong.asu.edu). His role is to help international technology startups enter the U.S. market in cooperation with the university. If you know of any international technology companies, feel free to have them contact him at JohnMitchell@asu.edu.

Greg Irving has a new position at Grainger as of March 1. He is now vice president and controller, working at the Lake Forest office. No more traveling to Toronto every week!

Troy Richardson is now a president at Xiocom Wireless.

Joan Boomsma moved to the South Loop nine years ago and loves it. She has changed jobs three times, first commuting to the south side and now the northern suburbs (via train) as the senior vice president and chief medical officer at Condell Medical Center in Libertyville, Ill.

We are all set for our EMP-40 10-year Reunion the weekend of Sept 12-14. Watch e-mail for more details.

Bert Allen, Vance Lancaster, and John Rutter have surfaced recently, and hopefully we'll have updates from them soon. Still missing: Brian McInerney, Barb Dean-Hendricks, Dharmendra Sahay and Rom Nowacki. If anyone knows how to get in touch with these folks, please let Dave know.