OralDNA Labs has appointed Ken Clarke as general manager, the company announced. Clarke will report to Dermot Shorten, vice president, office of the chairman, and will be based in Brentwood, TN.
"As one of the founders of OralDNA, Ken has invaluable firsthand marketplace experience," Shorten said. "He understands the high potential of this business and is focused on its continued growth. He will help us accelerate our momentum."
Prior to the creation of OralDNA in 2008, Clarke provided strategic planning and project implementation services for major hospitals and medical laboratories through Clarke Consulting, which he led from 2006 through 2007 in Nashville, TN. Before that, he served as vice president of operations for LabOne in Cincinnati, where he managed a centralized laboratory and six hospital laboratories.
Clarke has also worked as administrative director of the pathology laboratories at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, an academic hospital in the Chicago area. Clarke received a bachelor's degree from Vanderbilt University and a master's degrees in healthcare administration and business administration from Washington University.
This announcement comes just months after OralDNA Labs appointed dental industry veteran Michael Dunn to the newly created position of vice president of marketing. Dunn was most recently the sales and marketing director for CDB, a supplier of ceramic and composite orthodontic brackets. Prior to CDB, he held various marketing posts over several years at Sirona Dental Systems, including director of marketing, CAD/CAM systems. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics.
