Femasys Inc. announced the appointment of Richard Spector to chief commercial officer (CCO), effective February 2024. Mr. Spector has 25 years of experience spanning a continuum of commercial stages at both public and private medical device and biopharmaceutical companies. Mr. Spector brings over 25 years of experience leading public and private biotechnology companies through various stages of commercialization.

His expertise ranges from leading functional efforts in sales and marketing, key opinion leader strategy, product/brand development, and reimbursement strategy, to strategic efforts such as product planning, alliance management, cross functional team management and interfacing with investors and analysts. Most recently, Mr. Spector was chief commercial officer at Qlibrium (formally Cam-Med Inc.), a medical device company innovating on-body, wearable devices with the first electrochemical and microfluidic technology platform for therapeutic areas as such as oncology, diabetes, autoimmune, and in vitro fertilization (IVF). At Qlibrium, Mr. Spector led sales, marketing and partner development functions from early-stage to commercial launch as well as revamped and launched all marketing materials and campaigns to drive awareness and patient flow, including campaigns with Johnson & Johnson (J&J), Boeing and NASA.

Prior to this, Mr. Spector was at Insulet Corporation as senior director, strategic alliances, where he negotiated and managed over a dozen business development deals with pharmaceutical and device companies and at OvaScience Inc. (acquired by Millendo Therapeutics Inc.) as the vice president, of global sales and partner development for their global fertility products. He was also in leadership positions at other Women?s Health companies, including NeoMatrix Inc. (acquired by Halo Health Systems), Advanced Radiation Therapy, LLC (acquired by Best Medical International Inc.) and Cytyc Surgical Products, LLC (acquired by Hologic Inc.). Mr. Spector has a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and Marketing from California State University in Sacramento, CA.