Avanos Medical, Inc. announced that on September 29, 2021, Renato Negro notified the Company that he is resigning from his position as Chief Accounting Officer, effective as of October 22, 2021. The Company has appointed Michael C. Greiner as principal accounting officer, effective as of October 22, 2021. Mr. Greiner, 48, also serves as the Company’s Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, a position he has held since January 1, 2020. He most recently served as Executive Vice President and CFO for AngioDynamics, Inc., a publicly listed medical device company (NASDAQ: ANGO), where he played an integral role in transforming and optimizing its product portfolio through both internal development and M&A. Prior to that, Mr. Greiner was the CFO at Extreme Reach, Inc., a cloud-based enterprise platform for brand advertising, responsible for all finance and human resource operations. Earlier in his career, Mr. Greiner held several senior executive roles, including Senior Vice President corporate finance and Chief Accounting Officer at Cimpress N.V. (formerly known as Vistaprint N.V.), global controller for GE’s Water and Processing Technologies division, as well as leadership roles at Bausch & Lomb and Wyeth. Mr. Greiner was not selected pursuant to any arrangement or understanding between him and any other person, and he has no family relationships with any of the Company’s directors or executive officers. There have been no related-person transactions between the Company and Mr. Greiner reportable under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.
Avanos Medical, Inc. is a medical device company, which is focused on delivering solutions. The Company offers healthcare needs, such as providing nutrition to patients from hospital to home and reducing the use of opioids while helping patients move from surgery to recovery. The Company conducts its business in one segment that provides its medical device products to healthcare providers and patients globally with manufacturing facilities in the United States and Mexico. Its digestive health products include MIC-KEY enteral feeding tubes, Corpak patient feeding solutions and NeoMed neonatal and pediatric feeding solutions. The Companyâs acute pain products include ON-Q and ambIT surgical pain pumps and Game Ready cold and compression therapy systems. The Company's interventional pain solutions include COOLIEF pain therapy and OrthogenRxs knee osteoarthritis pain relief injection products.