Bioventus announces CEO change

March 27, 2020

Tony Bihl, CEO of Bioventus, an orthobiologic solutions company, is electing to retire on April 30, 2020. The Bioventus Board of Managers has unanimously appointed Ken Reali, former President and CEO of Clinical Innovations, LLC, to assume the role of CEO of Bioventus. Reali will also become a member of the Company’s Board of Managers, effective April 20, 2020.

Reali served as President and CEO of Clinical Innovations, a medical device company focused in woman’s healthcare, from June 2015 until its successful sale on February 12, 2020. He started his career at Biomet and worked at Stryker, Smith & Nephew and Baxano Surgical where he held positions of increasing responsibility, including CEO over the past ten years. Reali also worked within the Clinical Therapies business of Smith & Nephew over a decade ago which was later spun out to become Bioventus. He currently serves on the boards of Ossio Integrative Orthopedics, AdvaMed and AdvaMed Accel and is Chairman of the Ethics and Compliance Committee for AdvaMed.

Bioventus has the announcement.