Suzanne Foster Biography
Suzanne Foster
Director Since: January 2019
Age: 53
End of Current Term: 2024
Ms. Foster has been the president of Beckman Coulter Life Sciences for Danaher Corporation (“Danaher”), a global science and technology innovation company, Washington, DC, since April 2022. Prior to Danaher, Ms. Foster served as president of At Home Solutions for Cardinal Health, Dublin, Ohio, a global, integrated healthcare services and products company, from January 2020 until April 2022, as president of Stanley Healthcare, Waltham, Massachusetts, a healthcare technology operating division of Stanley Black & Decker, from April 2018 until January 2020, and as a general manager of Medtronic Advanced Energy (“Medtronic”), a medical device company, from August 2011 until March 2018. Ms. Foster formerly served as vice president of Global Business Operations at Salient Surgical Technologies, a medical device company later acquired by Medtronic. She was also formerly employed as an attorney at the law firms of Holland & Knight and Wiggin & Nourie, and served as vice president of Legal and Compliance for the Elliot Health System. In 2017, Ms. Foster was appointed to the University System of New Hampshire Board of Trustees by New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu. She also currently serves on multiple boards of private medical technology companies.
Age: 53
End of Current Term: 2024
Ms. Foster has been the president of Beckman Coulter Life Sciences for Danaher Corporation (“Danaher”), a global science and technology innovation company, Washington, DC, since April 2022. Prior to Danaher, Ms. Foster served as president of At Home Solutions for Cardinal Health, Dublin, Ohio, a global, integrated healthcare services and products company, from January 2020 until April 2022, as president of Stanley Healthcare, Waltham, Massachusetts, a healthcare technology operating division of Stanley Black & Decker, from April 2018 until January 2020, and as a general manager of Medtronic Advanced Energy (“Medtronic”), a medical device company, from August 2011 until March 2018. Ms. Foster formerly served as vice president of Global Business Operations at Salient Surgical Technologies, a medical device company later acquired by Medtronic. She was also formerly employed as an attorney at the law firms of Holland & Knight and Wiggin & Nourie, and served as vice president of Legal and Compliance for the Elliot Health System. In 2017, Ms. Foster was appointed to the University System of New Hampshire Board of Trustees by New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu. She also currently serves on multiple boards of private medical technology companies.