Executive Management

Liam J. Kelly is currently Chairman, President and CEO of Teleflex.

Liam became President and CEO on January 1, 2018. He joined Teleflex in April 2009 and shortly thereafter assumed responsibility as President of EMEA. He was then promoted to the position of Executive Vice President and President, International in June 2012. In April 2014, Liam was appointed Executive Vice President and President, Americas. In April 2015, he was named Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. From May 2016 to December 2017, he served as President and Chief Operating Officer.

Prior to joining Teleflex, Liam worked at Hill-Rom where he held senior leadership positions from 2002 to 2009. He was the Vice President of International Marketing and Product Development and previously had been Managing Director of their UK & Ireland businesses.

Liam holds a Bachelor of Business Studies from the University of Limerick.

Thomas (Tom) Powell was named Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Teleflex in February 2013.

Tom joined Teleflex in 2011 as Senior Vice President, Global Finance. He was promoted to Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in March 2012.

Prior to joining Teleflex, Tom served since 2009 as CFO of TomoTherapy Incorporated, which was sold in 2011 to Accuray Incorporated. Previously, he was CFO of Textura Corporation and Executive Vice President, CFO and Treasurer of Midway Games Inc. He has also held leadership positions with Dade Behring, Inc. (now Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics), PepsiCo, Bain & Company, Tenneco Corporation and Arthur Andersen & Company.

Tom earned an MBA from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from the Pennsylvania State University.

He is based in Wayne, PA, USA.

Karen Boylan is Corporate Vice President, Strategic Projects for Teleflex.

In January 2019, Karen assumed her current role as Corporate Vice President, Strategic Projects, focusing on improving innovation through project excellence by leading and supporting global project delivery, developing standard project processes and developing and providing portfolio knowledge.

She joined Teleflex in January 2013 as Vice President, International QARA and was named Vice President, Global QARA in August 2014. She was instrumental in strengthening both the organization and talent of our global QARA team, and played a key leadership role in the integration of the Vidacare and Mayo Healthcare acquisitions.

In January 2019, Karen assumed her current role as Vice President, Global Strategic Projects, focusing on improving innovation through project excellence by leading and supporting global project delivery, developing standard project processes and developing and providing portfolio knowledge.

Prior to joining Teleflex, Karen served as QA Vice President, Corporate Quality Systems for Boston Scientific Corporation from April 1996 to December 2012. She spent over 16 years at Boston Scientific Corporation in a variety of roles including Operations Quality, Design Assurance and Corporate Quality. Karen was based in both Ireland at the Galway manufacturing/R&D facility as well as at the company headquarters in Boston, USA. Earlier in her career, she was a QA pre-production leader at Inamed Corporation (Allergan).

Karen earned an MBA from Open University and a B.Sc. (Hons) Applied Biochemical Sciences with a Diploma in Industrial Studies (DIS) from the University of Ulster. She holds Six Sigma Black Belt certification.

She is based in Athlone, Ireland.

Howard Cyr is Corporate Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer for Teleflex.

In this role, Howard will leverage his legal and compliance-related experience to successfully manage Teleflex’s compliance program. Previously, Howard was Associate General Counsel for Teleflex where he was responsible for internal and external investigations along with managing the Company’s global litigation, risk exposure, and regulatory compliance matters.

Prior to joining Teleflex in 2018, Howard was Associate General Counsel for Teva Pharmaceuticals where he managed compliance and regulatory risk exposure as well as litigation at this global pharmaceutical firm. From 2004 to 2010, Howard served as Senior Corporate Counsel for Pfizer Inc. where he was responsible for management of litigation, government investigations, and regulatory risk exposure associated with small-molecule drugs, drug-device combinations, biologics, and vaccines. Prior to joining Pfizer, Howard was a partner in a Philadelphia based law firm.

Howard is a senior-level legal and compliance professional with extensive experience in the life sciences resolving difficult compliance, litigation, and FDA regulatory issues and has deep experience in fraud and abuse law.

Howard is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.

He is based in Wayne, PA USA.

Michelle Fox, RN BSN was named Corporate Vice President & Chief Medical Officer for Teleflex in February 2020.

She previously served as Vice President, Clinical and Medical Affairs since January 2015.

Michelle joined Teleflex in December 2013 as the Senior Director of Clinical Affairs through the acquisition of Vidacare. She has more than ten years of medical device management experience. During her time at Vidacare, Michelle led many successful growth initiatives and acted as the spokesperson for the company resulting in practice change through the release of new guidelines and policies, collaboration in education, clinical research, professional development and advocacy.

She has been instrumental in strengthening the organization through the formation of our global Clinical and Medical Affairs division. Michelle and her leadership team set the clinical vision and strategy for the organization. She provides leadership to Medical Affairs which provides medical guidance for the Company’s global product portfolio and assures compliance with global regulatory, legislative and medical requirements. Clinical Affairs representatives lead the design of and implementation of multidisciplinary clinical development programs covering a broad range of products and therapeutic areas in collaboration with strategic business partners. Michelle also leads the scientific, clinical research and reimbursement arm of the organization.

Michelle’s work has focused on organizational and systems development. This includes interactive medical education, as a means to making transformational change and supporting research that implements the best medical practices into bedside clinical care. She has lectured nationally and internationally on the impact of strong collaboration between Clinical and Medical Affairs and professional medical and nursing societies. She offers a rare blend of strong clinical practice and leadership, driven by her desire to improve patient outcomes, and tempered by a clear understanding of the challenges facing healthcare today.

Michelle received her Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing from Colby Sawyer College, a Dartmouth Affiliated program, and went on to complete a Harvard Affiliated Critical Care Residency Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She has served in advisory positions for medical and nursing societies, Board of Trustees and contributed to new standards of practice for specialty societies.

She is based in Boston, MA, USA.

Cameron (Cam) Hicks is the Corporate Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer for Teleflex.

He joined Teleflex in April 2013, bringing more than 23 years of experience in Human Resources and Organizational Development to his role.

Prior to joining Teleflex, Cam served as the Executive Vice President of Human Resources & Organizational Effectiveness for Harlan Laboratories, a private global provider of pre-clinical and non-clinical research services. Preceding Harlan, he spent 20 years at MDS where he was the Senior Vice President of Human Resources for the global Pharma Services division, the Director of Human Resources for the Canadian Diagnostics division, and held a variety of other HR and Operational Leadership roles. Prior to joining MDS, Cam was on the teaching faculty at the Richard Ivey School of Business in Canada.

Cam earned his B.A. in Honors Business Administration from the Richard Ivey School of Business, London, ON, Canada.

He is based in Wayne, PA, USA.

Lawrence Keusch is Vice President of Investor Relations and Strategy Development at Teleflex. 

In this role, Larry will closely partner with the executive team to meet our organization’s goals and strategies, and to contribute to shareholder satisfaction.

Larry comes to Teleflex with over 30 years of investment research experience within the medical device and hospital supplies industry. Larry began his career with Goldman Sachs and held numerous positions of increasing responsibility over his 20+ year career with the firm, including co-head of healthcare research in Global Investment Research. Most recently, Larry worked for Raymond James and covered 17 US stocks, including Teleflex, in robotics, ophthalmology, orthopedics, sterilization, and hospital supplies, and advised Raymond James’ institutional investors and 8,000 retail brokers. 

Larry earned his bachelor’s degree in biology from Tufts University.

Daniel V. Logue is Corporate Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary for Teleflex.

Since joining Teleflex as Assistant General Counsel in June 2004, Dan has provided legal advice to senior management and the Board, specializing in corporate governance, public disclosure, capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions and commercial transactions. He also served as divisional counsel for our former Aerospace and Commercial businesses. Dan’s role expanded in February 2013 when he was named Associate General Counsel. He was further promoted to Deputy General Counsel in February 2017 and served in that role until December 2020.

Prior to joining Teleflex, Dan was an associate at the law firm of Pepper Hamilton LLP (now Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP), where he specialized in corporate and securities matters, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions and capital markets transactions.

Dan earned his Juris Doctor degree from the Villanova University School of Law and his Bachelor of Arts degree from Saint Joseph’s University.

He is based in Wayne, PA, USA.

Dominik Reterski is Corporate Vice President, Quality Assurance/Regulatory Affairs for Teleflex.

In this role, Dominik works across the business to ensure products comply with government regulations and that quality assurance professionals are focused on delivering high-quality products to customers.

Prior to joining Teleflex, Dominik spent 20 years with Medtronic, where he progressively expanded executive QA/RA leadership roles across EMEA, APAC, and the corporate function. Most recently, Dominik served as Medtronic’s Vice President – Corporate Quality.

Throughout his career he has held multiple leadership roles in trade associations such as MedTech Europe, Mecomed and APACMed, working proactively to shape policies, demonstrate the value of innovation, and promote regulatory convergence.

Dominik is a graduate of the Medical University of Warsaw in Poland and earned a Master’s of Science degree in Pharmacology.

He is based in Athlone, Ireland.

Matt Tomkin is Vice President, Corporate Development for Teleflex

In this role, Matt oversees all phases of the M&A process, from deal sourcing to execution.

Matt joined the Corporate Development team in 2015 and has managed numerous global M&A scale transactions, various tuck-in acquisitions, late-stage technology deals, and distributor-to-direct conversions.

Prior to joining Teleflex, Matt worked in the Audit and Enterprise Risk Services and M&A Transaction Services groups at Deloitte & Touche.

Matt is a CPA and has a Bachelors’ degree in Business Administration from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University.

He is based in Wayne, PA, USA.

Jay White was named Corporate Vice President & President, Global Commercial for Teleflex in January 2021.

He joined Teleflex in March 2005 as Director of Marketing, North America. In January 2013, he was promoted to President and General Manager of our Surgical business. In December 2013, Jay earned another promotion to President and General Manager of our Vascular business. He was named President, The Americas in February 2017 and Corporate Vice President, Americas & EMEA in February 2020.

Jay has more than 15 years of sales, marketing and general management experience in healthcare with a broad familiarity in surgical and critical care markets. Prior to joining Teleflex, Jay worked at Covidien where he held senior leadership positions in sales and marketing over a five-year period.

Jay holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Missouri.

He is based in Morrisville, NC, USA.

James Winters was named Corporate Vice President, Manufacturing & Supply Chain for Teleflex in February 2020.

Previously, he served as Vice President, Manufacturing. He joined Teleflex in March 2018 and is responsible for global Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Procurement and Planning.

Prior to Teleflex, James worked for Johnson and Johnson (DePuySynthes) from August 2005 where he held various roles including Vice President of Global Manufacturing for Global Joint Reconstruction and Chair of the DePuy Ireland Joints Global Supply Chain board (2014-2018).

Prior to 2014, James held roles in DePuySynthes including Plant Manager for the DePuySynthes Ireland Manufacturing Operation – an orthopedics medical device manufacturer. In this role, he was responsible for leading and managing the Cork manufacturing site as well as continuing to accelerate the transformation of operations to a fully integrated Lean supply chain. As a result of this effort, the DePuySynthes Ireland site was awarded the Shingo Prize in 2014.

Prior to DePuy, James worked with Sanmina–SCI in varying roles including Operations Manager and in Program Management.

From a professional organization perspective, James has also sat on the Irish Medtech Association Board since 2012 and was the Chair of the board in 2016. He also joined the Cork IBEC (Irish Business Confederation) Regional Executives in 2016 and was appointed Regional President for 2017 – 2020.

James holds a BTech in Electronic Manufacturing from the University of Limerick and an MBA from the University College Cork.

He is based in Athlone, Ireland.