Medical devices
10 Abbott operations leaders
These ten people hold or have held vice president and senior director roles in operations at Abbott, including division vice presidents of operations for several Abbott businesses. A reader can learn how operations leaders build and run their teams in medical device companies.
Professionals to explore
01—10Andres Garcia Rodriguez
LinkedInExperience: Divisional Vice President Operations Abbott Point of Care · Abbott
Divisional Vice President Operations Abbott Point of Care at Abbott since June 2026, based in the Ottawa area. Former Division Vice President Operations Abbott Molecular Diagnostics (2023–2026), Site Director (2023), Site Director (2021–2023) and Director Of Operations (2019–2020) at Abbott.
Cindy Butler
LinkedInExperience: DVP Operations Transfusion Medicine · Abbott
DVP Operations Transfusion Medicine at Abbott since December 2024. Former Abbott roles on the profile are Site Director (2021–2025) in Wiesbaden, Germany, Director Global Technical Operations (2020–2021) and Director Manufacturing Operations (2018–2020).
Fiona Mullins
LinkedInExperience: Division Vice President, Operations · Abbott
Division Vice President, Operations at Abbott since October 2024; the profile says the role leads the global infant and adult nutrition manufacturing network across North America and New Zealand for Abbott Nutrition. Former Division Vice President Quality Assurance Abbott Nutrition (2022–2024) and DVP, Global Operations & Quality Cardiometabolic Rapid Diagnostics (2020–2022) at Abbott.
Joe Eppert
LinkedInExperience: Divisional Vice President, Operations, Abbott Cancer Diagnostics (formerly Exact Sciences) · Abbott
Divisional Vice President, Operations, Abbott Cancer Diagnostics (formerly Exact Sciences) at Abbott since September 2026. Former Abbott roles listed are Divisional Vice President, Operations, Abbott Molecular Diagnostics (2026), Divisional Vice President, Global Operations, Cardiometabolic and Informatics (2024–2026) and Divisional Vice President, Toxicology Operations (2019–2024).
Karen Rodriguez, PhD
LinkedInExperience: Division Vice President Operations, Rapid Diagnostics · Abbott
Division Vice President Operations, Rapid Diagnostics at Abbott since December 2020, based in Chicago, a President/Vice President-level role in General Management. Former Division Vice President, Corporate Engineering (2019–2020) and Director of Design Transfer and Process Engineering (2018–2019) at Abbott.
Michael Cummane
LinkedInExperience: Division Vice President Operations at Abbott Electrophysiology · Abbott
Division Vice President Operations at Abbott Electrophysiology since May 2021. Former Sr. Director US EP Operations at Abbott Electrophysiology (2018–2021), former Sr. Site Director at Abbott Structural Heart (2016–2018) and former Director Operations and Supply Chain at Abbott Vascular, Structural Heart (2014–2016).
Mike Alcott
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, Site Operations US EP Catheters · Abbott
Senior Director, Site Operations US EP Catheters at Abbott since June 2025, and former Director of Operations at Abbott (2022–2025) in Plymouth, Minnesota. Former Head of Operations Transformation at TE Connectivity (2021–2022) and former Production Director at Boston Scientific (2016–2021).
Steve Scott
LinkedInExperience: Divisional Vice President Worldwide Operations · Abbott
Former Divisional Vice President Worldwide Operations at Abbott (2019–2026); the profile says Scott has retired from leading the worldwide operations team at Abbott Diabetes Care. Other former Abbott roles are Divisional Vice President Research & Development, Technical Operations (2015–2019) and Divisional Vice President Research & Development (2004–2015).
Ted O'Neill
LinkedInExperience: Division Vice President, Operations and Manufacturing Strategy · Abbott
Division Vice President, Operations and Manufacturing Strategy at Abbott since May 2021; the profile headline gives the role as Divisional Vice President Global Operations Infectious Disease at Abbott. Former Site Director - Global Cartridge Operations, Abbott Point of Care (2017–2020) and former Supply Chain Transformation Director at Mars (2015–2017).
Todd York
LinkedInExperience: Divisional Vice President, North America and AsiaPacific Operations at Abbott Diabetes Care · Abbott
Divisional Vice President, North America and AsiaPacific Operations at Abbott Diabetes Care since December 2019, based in Alameda, California, and Sr. Director, FreeStyle Libre Capacity Expansion Program at Abbott since February 2018. Former Director, Worldwide Supply Chain Operations (2012–2018) and Manufacturing Director, US Operations (2003–2012) at Abbott.
Choose the right perspective
Match the person's business to your question, since nutrition plants, diagnostics manufacturing and medical device sites are run differently. Choose a division-level vice president for questions about running a network of plants, and a site operations leader for questions about running one plant day to day.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you set priorities across quality, supply, safety and cost in a regulated healthcare manufacturing network?
- 02What changes when an operations team takes over a newly acquired business or a newly combined division?
- 03How do you add manufacturing capacity for a fast-growing product without disrupting existing supply?
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