CEO Today Healthcare Awards

www.ceotodaymagazine.com 44 CEO Today Healthcare Awards 2018 USA ABOUT JOHN BAUMANN John Q. Baumann is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Midmark Corporation. Prior to holding this position, he joined the Midmark Board of Directors in 2009 and was named Chairman in 2013. He leads the company with a strong focus on Midmark’s vision, values and strategies, which support innovation and growth initiatives to increase the efficiency of healthcare. A highly skilled and award-winning senior executive with more than 38 years of experience, Baumann, a Cincinnati native, began his career in the Cincinnati office of Arthur Andersen in 1979. He left Arthur Andersen to serve as the COO/CFO of Duro Bag Manufacturing, the largest manufacturer of carrier shopping bags for major specialty retail and department stores. He joined Fisher Investment Group in 1994 serving as Vice President, Corporate Development. In 1997, Baumann became President and Chief Executive Officer, as well as shareholder of Ampac, a Cincinnati-based global leader in creative packaging solutions serving the retail, food, pharmaceutical and security markets. During his tenure, Ampac increased its size twenty-fold, completed twelve acquisitions and expanded into Europe andAsia, where it now operates several global manufacturing centers. Baumann has won numerous awards for leadership and entrepreneurship, including the 2014 Entrepreneur Vision Award from the Entrepreneur Organization of Cincinnati and Entrepreneur of the Year from Ernst & Young in 2005. Furthermore, Baumann brings leadership experience from several corporate boards which currently include Basco, Kost USA, Ocean Accelerator, Inc. and, formerly, Bethesda, Inc., amongst others. Baumann remains actively involved with organizations throughout the community, including Higher Branches, a charity he and his wife Emily founded to help build community in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati. Baumann formerly contributed on the boards of the Cincinnati Museum Center and the Cincinnati Parks Foundation, the latter of which he was a founder. Baumann received his Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Xavier University. JOHN BAUMANN President & CEO of Midmark Corporation FIRM PROFILE Midmark Corporation, a privately held company founded in 1915, is a leading provider of medical, dental and veterinaryequipment and technologies. More than 1,800 teammates worldwide are passionate, courageous leaders focused on making a positive difference in the lives we touch by improving the experience between patients and their caregivers. Headquartered in Dayton, Ohio, Midmark maintains production and administrative offices in Versailles, Ohio, as well as seven other locations in the United States and international subsidiaries in India, Italy and the United Kingdom. Midmark has a corporate culture like no other in the markets we serve. As we continue to grow with each year and throughout each generation, we will remain committed to our customers, our teammates, our community and to efficient patient care. Our customers recognize us as leaders in the industry. Expertise is a key element in creating efficient patient care. We need to have a deep understanding of and commitment to providing our customers and their patients with a caring environment. As experts, we strive to learn and improve each day. We know that our knowledge is never complete, therefore we have a willingness to learn, and an openness to trying something new. Because we care about our customers and teammates, our expertise is not something we keep to ourselves; it is something we share across lines of business, across departments and across facilities. We link ingenuity to action. We anticipate change, especially changes in the needs and wants of our customers. We must also help create change in order to be totally effective - as we say in our brand promise, “delivering solutions to problems they did not even know they had.” Of course, this means developing these types of products, services and technologies, but it also means finding new and better ways to interact with, and help, our customers and our colleagues