Overview
The Company:
Varian Medical Systems, Inc., headquartered globally in Palo Alto, California, is the world's leading manufacturer of medical devices and software for treating cancer and other medical conditions with radiotherapy, radiosurgery, proton therapy, and brachytherapy. The company supplies informatics software for managing comprehensive cancer clinics, radiotherapy centers and medical oncology practices. Varian is a premier supplier of tubes and digital detectors for X-ray imaging in medical, scientific, and industrial applications and also supplies X-ray imaging products for cargo screening and industrial inspection. In its most recent fiscal year ended September, 2007, the company reported sales of $1.78 billion, almost half of these outside North America. Varian is the market leader in radiotherapy in North America and Europe.
Products:
More than 5,200 Varian Medical Systems’ Clinac® and Trilogy™ medical linear accelerators for cancer radiotherapy and radiosurgery are in service around the world, treating tens of thousands of patients per day. In partnership with BrainLAB, Varian makes the Novalis® Tx machine for image-guided radiosurgery. The company also produces advanced brachytherapy systems for treating cancer.
Varian X-ray tubes are sold to most major diagnostic equipment manufacturers and cover a range of applications including advanced mammography and CT scanning. The company also produces the PaxScan line of real-time, digital X-ray image detectors, which are incorporated in many types of diagnostic imaging systems.
The company's Security and Inspection group is the market leader in high-energy X-ray devices for non-destructive testing and cargo screening.
Sites:
Worldwide headquarters: Palo Alto, California, USA.
Additional manufacturing sites: Baden, Switzerland; Beijing, China; Charleston, South Carolina; Charlottesville, Virginia; Crawley, England; Helsinki, Finland; Haan, Germany; Holliston, Massachusetts; Las Vegas, Nevada; Milpitas, California; Salt Lake City, Utah; Tokyo, Japan; Toulouse and Buc, France; Winnipeg, Canada.
Sales & Service offices in 56 countries.
Employees:
Approximately 4,800 people located at manufacturing sites in North America, China, and Europe and in 60 sales and support offices around the world.
Management:
Timothy E. Guertin — President and Chief Executive Officer
Elisha W. Finney — Corporate Senior Vice President and CFO
Robert H. Kluge — Corporate Senior Vice President; President, X-Ray Products
John W. Kuo — Corporate Vice President and General Counsel
Franco N. Palumbo — Corporate Vice President, Finance and Treasurer
Tai-Yun Chen — Corporate Vice President, Finance and Corporate Controller
Wendy S. Reitherman — Corporate Vice President, Human Resources
Spencer R. Sias — Vice President, Corporate Communications & Investor Relations
John "Andy" Anderson Thorson — Corporate Vice President, Finance and Business Development
Dow R. Wilson — Corporate Executive Vice President; President, Oncology Systems
George A. Zdasiuk — Corporate Vice President; Director of the Ginzton
Technology Center, and Chief Technology Officer
Contact Varian Corporate
Varian Corporate Headquarters
Telephone: 1.650.493.4000
Toll Free: 800.544.4636
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