Masimo Promotes Blair Tripodi to Chief Operating Officer

Sound United parent Masimo tapped Blair Tripodi as chief operating officer of its consumer division, it said Monday. Tripodi, who joined Sound United in 2013, was most recently chief commercial officer. He will report to Masimo CEO Joe Kiani, after Kevin Duffy, president of Masimo's consumer division, left the medical technology company last month (see 2208100023), in what Kiani said then “wasn’t a good fit for either Kevin or us.” In August, Kiani praised Masimo COO Bilal Muhsin as “as an “incredible supply chain and operations leader,” and extolled the engineering team: “We obviously are going to do our best to keep everyone that we really think we need for the journey.” The combined companies have been “moving at full speed to create many new consumer health products” via collaborative R&D efforts, Kiani said then. Masimo didn’t respond to questions about Muhsin’s status with the company.