Lessons learned from Lantheus CEO Mary Anne Heino

At MassMedic’s Women in Medtech event last month, Lantheus Medical Imaging CEO Mary Anne Heino spoke with MassDevice.com editor Sarah Faulkner about her career in life sciences, the power of mentorship and the necessity of courage. When Mary Anne Heino first joined Lantheus Medical Imaging (NSDQ:LNTH) in 2013, she knew admittedly very little about the field of diagnostics. “I was walking into a company where the average tenure was more than 25 years,” she said. “So these were people who knew what they were doing and had been doing it for so long…I was intent from day one to show that I was ready to learn and that I knew nothing and therefore was an open sponge for them to teach me.” Six years later, Heino describes Lantheus as a “completely different company” – public, profitable and “one of the darlings of medtech.” She came to Lantheus with 20 years of experience at Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) and training as a nurse under her belt, so she certainly wasn’t new to the world of healthcare. But she believed that successfully transitioning to the C-suite at Lantheus would require showing her employees that she was willing and excited to learn from them. “If people sincerely read that you want to learn and that you value them and what they can teach you, you get this incredibly different experience than if you come in trying to superimpose some kind of experience th...
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