Directorate Changes

Creo Medical Group PLC

13 May 2024

 

Creo Medical Group plc

("Creo" the "Company" or the "Group")

Directorate Changes

Chair succession and addition of US-based industry expertise

Creo Medical Group plc (AIM: CREO), the medical device company focused on the emerging field of minimally invasive surgical endoscopy for pre-cancer and cancer patients, announces the following changes to the Board of Directors.

Further to the AGM Statement & Succession Planning announcement in June 2023, which set out the Company's plan to evolve its Board of Directors as it enters a new phase of commercial growth, Creo announces the appointment of Kevin Crofton and Brent Boucher as independent Non-Executive Directors. Both Kevin and Brent are expected to join the Board with effect from 1 July 2024, with Kevin succeeding Charles Spicer as Chair.

Charles has led the Board since the Company's IPO in December 2016 and has overseen an outstanding period of change and transformation. During this time, the Group has evolved from a UK pre-market, pre-revenue early-stage medical device innovator, into an international commercial group with a range of proprietary innovative surgical solutions delivering outstanding clinical outcomes and health economic benefits and a pipeline of post-market clinical programmes with globally recognised partners.

Kevin Crofton is an accomplished business leader with over three decades of extensive international experience in the technology industry. He has a successful track record of driving innovation and generating profitable growth. Most recently, Kevin was the CEO of Comet Holdings AG, a Swiss listed technology company, where he delivered significant shareholder value by driving greater customer engagement. Prior to this, he was CEO of SPTS Technologies where he led the PE backed management buyout and exit of the company to Orbotech, Inc., joining the team who subsequently sold the group to KLA-Tencor Corporation for $3.4bn. Kevin has also acted as Chairman of SEMI International and the UK Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult.

Brent Boucher brings extensive experience in the commercialisation of novel medical devices and has a record of success in growing and transforming businesses across a range of medical device specialities, including technologies, oncology interventions, surgical solutions and respiratory care. Brent is recognised as a business leader of multiple innovative growth businesses focused on commercial optimisation, new product, technology and procedural introductions, global market entry and strategic M&A. Throughout his career in the USA, Brent has held a number of executive positions in large multinational Medtech companies, including Covidien (acquired by Medtronic), AngioDynamics and Nuvasive, working to successfully deliver revenue growth and shareholder value.

Kevin Crofton (Left)	Brent Boucher (Right)

Craig Gulliford, Chief Executive Officer of Creo, said: "On behalf of the Board, I would like to thank Charles for his enormous contribution to Creo over the past eight years as Chair. He has led the Board as we transitioned from a privately held MedTech startup, with big ambition, through IPO and subsequent funding rounds, into what is now an internationally commercialised public company with significant global partners. His guidance during this period of growth and evolution from both a personal and business perspective has been invaluable. Charles leaves Creo extremely well positioned for commercial expansion as we move into a significant period of growth. We thank him again for everything he has helped us to achieve.

"We are delighted to appoint Non-Executive Directors of the calibre of Kevin and Brent. They are stalwart international executives, bringing with them deep industry knowledge as well as proven strategic capabilities and senior commercial execution experience. It has been a pleasure to get to know both Kevin and Brent over the last few months as we have worked through the selection process and begun to immerse them into the team and the business. I look forward to working with them on the next stage of Creo's journey."

Charles Spicer, Chair of Creo, said: "It has been a privilege to serve as Creo's Chair and work alongside my fellow directors and our dedicated staff since our IPO in 2016. I applaud and thank all the Creo team for their success in commercialising minimally invasive electrosurgical devices in both endoscopy and with surgical robotics partners internationally through Creo's Kamaptive licensing programme. Thanks also are due to all our fellow shareholders for their patient support through challenging markets and to our dedicated advisers for their wise counsel along the way. I welcome Kevin and Brent, with their invaluable skillsets and experience, to the Board and wish them and Creo the best of luck as they accelerate our clinical and commercial progress around the world."

Disclosures pursuant to Schedule Two Paragraph (g) of the AIM Rules for Companies are provided further below.

Enquiries:

Creo Medical Group plc	www.creomedical.com
Richard Rees (CFO)	[phone]
Cavendish Capital Markets Limited	[phone]
Stephen Keys / Camilla Hume (NOMAD)
Michael Johnson (Sales)
Deutsche Numis (Joint Broker) Freddie Barnfield / Duncan Monteith / Euan Brown	[phone]
Walbrook PR	Tel: [phone] or [e-mail]
Paul McManus / Sam Allen Phillip Marriage	Mob: [phone] [phone]

About Creo Medical 

Creo Medical is a medical device company focused on the development and commercialisation of minimally invasive electrosurgical devices, bringing advanced energy to endoscopy.

The Company's vision is to improve patient outcomes through the development and commercialisation of a suite of electrosurgical medical devices, each enabled by CROMA, powered by Kamaptive. The Group has developed the CROMA powered by Kamaptive full-spectrum adaptive technology to optimise surgical capability and patient outcomes. Kamaptive is a seamless, intuitive integration of multi-modal energy sources, optimised to dynamically adapt to patient tissue during procedures such as resection, dissection, coagulation and ablation of tissue. Kamaptive technology provides clinicians with increased flexibility, precision and controlled surgical solutions. CROMA currently delivers bipolar radiofrequency ("RF") energy for precise localised cutting and focused high frequency microwave ("MW") energy for controlled coagulation and ablation via a single accessory port. This technology, combined with the Group's range of patented electrosurgical devices, is designed to provide clinicians with flexible, accurate and controlled clinical solutions. The Directors believe the Company's technology can impact the landscape of surgery and endoscopy by providing a safer, less-invasive and more cost-efficient option for procedures.

For more information, please refer to the website www.creomedical.com

Regulatory Disclosures

The following details are disclosed pursuant to Schedule Two Paragraph (g) of the AIM Rules for Companies:

Kevin Timothy Crofton, age 63, holds or has held the following directorships in the past five years:

Current Directorships

The Boathouse Bristol Limited Virginia Tech Foundation, Inc.* *Advisory role

Directorships held within the last five years

Comet Holding AG

Comet AG

Comet Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd

Comet Mechanical Equipment (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.

Comet Technologies USA, Inc.

Comet Technologies Korea Co. Ltd.

Comet Yxlon GmbH

Comet Technologies Denmark A/S

Comet Technologies Japan KK

Yxlon (Beijing) X-Ray Equipment Trading Co. Ltd.

Comet Technologies Malaysia Sdn. Bhd.

Object Research Systems (ORS) Inc.

Comet Solutions Taiwan Ltd.

Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult Limited

CSA Catapult Services Limited

Vishay UK Holding Company Limited

SPTS Technologies Group Limited

SPTS Technologies Holdings Limited

SPTS Technologies Investments Limited

SPTS Technologies Sapphire Limited

SPTS Technologies Limited

SPTS Technologies UK Limited

SPTS Technologies Overseas Holdings Limited

SPTS Technologies ET Limited

SPTS Technologies, Inc.

SPTS Technologies PTE, Ltd.

SPTS Technologies GmbH

SPTS Technologies SAS

SPTS Technologies Ltd (Taiwan)

SPTS Technologies Shanghai, Inc.

Primaxx, Inc.

Xactix, Inc.

SPP Technologies Japan Co., Ltd.

Orbotech Holding U.K. Limited

Kevin Crofton holds 650,000 ordinary shares in the Company.

In relation to the appointment of Brent Jay Boucher, age 56, there are no further details to be disclosed pursuant to Schedule Two Paragraph (g) of the AIM Rules for Companies.

 

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