Transitions - From Sales Leader to CEO, From COVID Ventilator to Full-Featured Product with Rich Walsh
Description
Rich Walsh is CEO of Corvent, a company that is focused on providing solutions in the ventilator market. Rich has a long history in sales and sales management, and has transitioned from sales to become a first-time CEO. At the same time, Rich and the team are transitioning from providing a ventilator for COVID, to a full-featured product. In this episode Rich shares about the foundation of his career and the importance of discipline, openness and leader engagement, how direct feedback can make or break a career, locating a company in a non-traditional city and state, building an internship program that benefits the company and interns, and leadership lessons learned from legends in our industry.
Links from this episode:
- Rich Walsh LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardswalsh/
- Corvent Medical https://www.corventmedical.com
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