Zomedica

Tony Blair recently joined Zomedica in January 2022. Prior to joining Zomedica, he was a principal founder of BGA Mfg. Services LLC, a manufacturing and operations consulting organization. Blair was COO of Cardiox Corporation from 2012 through 2016, a privately held company that developed, manufactured, and marketed drug-device combination products for the structural heart and liver markets. Blair has more than 30 years of operations leadership experience in the medical device and pharmaceutical industries.

Before joining Cardiox in 2012, Blair served as VP of Manufacturing for Devicor Medical Products, the parent corporation of Mammotome, a global company dedicated to acquiring and growing healthcare companies which subsequently acquired Neoprobe, a public company, where he served as Vice President, of Manufacturing Operations.

Prior to Neoprobe, from 2002 to 2004, Blair served as Vice President of Manufacturing at Enpath Medical, the company that acquired Biomec Cardiovascular, Inc.

From 1998 through 2001, Blair led the manufacturing efforts at Astro Instrumentation, a medical device contract manufacturer. He was part of the leadership of the company from its initial start-up in 1998. Prior to Astro, he spent 10 years at Ciba-Corning Diagnostics (now Bayer) in various managerial capacities including Operations Manager, Materials Manager, Purchasing Manager, and Production Supervisor. Before that, he was employed by Bailey Controls and held various positions increasing in responsibility in purchasing and industrial engineering. Blair started his career at Fisher Body, a division of General Motors, in production supervision.

He holds a Bachelors’s degree in Business Administration from Cleveland State University.