EnteroMedics Inc. announced senior level appointments within its newly reorganized commercial operations group. The appointments include Paul Hickey as Senior Vice President of Marketing and Reimbursement, Nick Ansari as Senior Vice President of Sales, and Peter Delange as Senior Vice President of Operations and Business Development. With the addition of these new roles, EnteroMedics is shifting its commercial organization toward several, highly focused commercial areas headed by executives with significant leadership experience.

As part of the new structure, Greg Lea, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer, has been named Chief Financial Officer and Chief Compliance Officer. In his new role, Mr. Lea will manage the Human Resources, Investor Relations, Public Relations and Regulatory functions, in addition to Finance. Brad Hancock, Chief Commercial Officer since 2014, will step down from his role at the Company to pursue other opportunities.

Mr. Hickey joins EnteroMedics with over 15 years of experience as a medical device executive, most recently having served as Chief Executive Officer of Pantheon Spinal since 2014. Mr. Ansari joins EnteroMedics with over 20 years in the medical device industry, having held various senior sales positions at Stryker, DePuy, Medtronic, Lanx and Globus Medical. Prior to EnteroMedics, he spent two years as the owner of an independent distributor for Biomet products.

Prior to this, he served as Senior Vice President of Sales at Lanx from 2010 to 2013. Mr. Delange has spent the last 11 years as the owner and President of Devicex. At Devicex, he contracted with large medical device companies and worked closely with individual surgeons to develop new technologies.

Since 2011, Mr. Delange has also served as a Co-Founder and Board Member of FocusStart.