The developer of lab-on-a-chip tests for eye disease named Seph Jensen president and chief operating officer, effective Oct. 28. In the newly created post, Jensen will help build the firm’s sales infrastructure, said TearLab CEO Elias Vamvakas. Jensen will join TearLab from his current position as head of surgical marketing at Alcon Laboratories Inc., where he has responsibility for more than $1.4 billion in revenue across Alcon’s cataract, retina and refractive businesses.
“TearLab is well positioned for strong growth in the large, but still essentially untapped, market for simple, easy-to-use and objective point-of-care diagnostics within the eye care space,” Jensen said in...