Lane Major was recently named the president and CEO of Richmond laboratory product company Grenova — taking the helm from founder Ali Safavi.
The move comes at an important time for Grenova, about a year after Connecticut private equity firm Peloton Equity purchased a majority share. That investment changed the company’s trajectory and set it on a course for growth.
“The types of innovation and instruments that Grenova has executed on was hard to say no to,” Major said. “I come from a very competitive space with countless competitors cutting the legs out of each other. And the opportunity to create a market is not something that you get to do every day.”
Major started his career in medical sales and eventually co-founded Leesburg, Virginia’s K2M, a maker of spinal implant products. Major was the COO and helped shepherd the company from its founding as a startup in 2004 to a major corporation. It sold to medical manufacturing company Stryker Corp. in 2018 for $1.4 billion,…
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