Brian Lawrence, PhD

About

Passionate leader with over 15 years in senior executive leadership roles driving business and innovation strategy, developing new businesses and business models, driving M&A activity, delivering revenue growth and product differentiation, and engaging customers, investors, and the press. Strong focus on leading inspired teams combined with operational rigor to drive efficient, productive new technology and product development. Demonstrated ability to accelerate breakthrough growth across broad healthcare and consumer portfolios

Experience

• EVP and Chief Technology Officer at iRhythm Technologies, Inc.
  Apr 2025 - Present · 1 yr 3 mos

• Sr. Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Vapotherm
  Dec 2021 - Apr 2025 · 3 yrs 5 mos

• CTO and GM at Gravity Diagnostics
  May 2021 - Dec 2021 · 8 mos

  Creating new opportunities to provide people with the information they need to lead their best lives in both B2B and DTC models

• Advisor - Center for the Business of Lifescience at Indiana University - Kelley School of Business
  Mar 2011 - Dec 2021 · 10 yrs 10 mos

• Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Hill-Rom
  Dec 2010 - May 2021 · 10 yrs 6 mos

  • Drove ~6x increase in new product revenue in 5 years, delivering ~$600M in 2020 • Lead digital transformation, creating a new business leveraging data for new solutions • Created incubator model to rapidly commercialize breakthrough technologies and launched first product in incontinence management systems and disposables • Lead efforts in customer/sales engagement and investor communication regarding technology/product pipelines • Lead efforts in M&A due diligence and integration • Global responsibility for technical teams of over 800 staff • Establish innovation team and strategic technology roadmaps • Establish global design team with unique approach to customer intimacy • Oversaw complete redesign of global hospital bed portfolio (ICU and Med-Surg)