What Happened?
Saint Paul, MN-based Smiths Medical hired Ronald Leonhardt as Vice President of Human Resources
About the Company
Smiths Medical is a leading global manufacturer of specialty medical devices that provides innovative and lifesaving solutions for the hospital, emergency, home and specialist environments. Our products are used during critical and intensive care, surgery, post-operative care during recovery, and in a series of home infusion therapies. We offer a number of some of the most respected and easily recognizable brands in the specialty device space: Portex™, Medex™, Deltec™, Level1™, Pneupac™, Wallace™, CADD™, BCI™, Jelco™, Medfusion™ and Surgivet™. Smiths Medical employs some 7,500 people, with manufacturing concentrated in the US, the UK, Mexico and Italy. Most territories are serviced through wholly-owned local sales and distribution companies. Smiths Medical is part of Smiths Group, a world leader in the practical application of technologies, delivering products and services for the threat & contraband detection, medical device, energy and communications markets worldwide. Smiths Group employs over 23,000 people in more than 50 countries.
About the Person
Ron Leonhardt leads the Global Human Resources and Environmental Health & Safety functions for Smiths Medical. He brings a background of more than 18 years of HR experience focused on optimizing the management of human capital for global organizations. He joined the organization in 2009. Prior joining Smiths Medical, Ron held several leadership positions during his nine years with Target Corporation. He served as Group Manager for stores compensation and Director of International HR. Ron also spent a year in Shanghai, China establishing the HR organization to support business growth plans and helped build Target`s Business Process Outsourcing Center in Bangalore, India. Ron began his professional career as a consultant with Arthur Andersen`s Business Consulting Group and then with the Strategic Human Capital Consulting Group at Deloitte & Touche. He was also the lead HR consultant for the Japan Business Organization practice in both firms. Ron holds a BA in International Economics from Georgetown University and a Master`s in International Business from Columbia University. He currently serves on the board of the Human Resources Executive Forum`s Minnesota Chapter and the Japan America Society of Minnesota.
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