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Fred Colen is Executive Vice President Operations and Technology CRM and Chief Technology Officer at Boston Scientific Corporation. Previously Fred was the Company's Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. He joined the Company in 1999 as Vice President of Research and Development of Scimed and in February 2001 he was promoted to Senior Vice President Cardiovascular Technology of Scimed.
Before joining the Company Fred worked for several medical device companies including Guidant where he launched the Delta T DDD Pacemaker platform and St. Jude Medical where he served as Managing Director for the European subsidiary of the Cardiac Rhythm Management Division and as Executive Vice President responsible for worldwide Research & Development for implantable pacemaker systems.
Fred was educated in The Netherlands and Germany and holds the U.S. equivalent of a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering with a focus on medical technology from the Technical University in Aachen Germany. He was the Vice President of the International Association of Prosthesis Manufacturers (IAPM) in Brussels from 1995 to 1997. | 