Organisation

At professional chain level

SNITEM is affiliated to two federations:

FIM: Fédération des Industries Mécaniques (Machinery Manufacturers' Federation)

FIEEC: Fédération des Industrie Electriques, Electroniques, et de Communication (Electrical, Electronics
  and Communications Industries Federation)

These federations are both members of MEDEF (Mouvement des Entreprises de France - French business confederation).
SNITEM is also a member of FEFIS, a federation grouping together various healthcare industry associations, including the LEEM (Les Entreprises du Médicament - association of the French pharmaceutical industries). FEFIS is a vector of proposals within the MEDEF for our fields of activity.

Internally:

Every year, a General Meeting brings together all the Member companies. It is on this occasion that it elects, every two years, the President and members of the Board of Directors. By virtue of its structure, the Board is representative of the variety in the industrial fabric at SNITEM.

The Board of Directors / June 2007

President:

Christian Seux (re-elected on 24 june 2009)
Chairman and Managing Director of BECTON DICKINSON France
(single-use hypodermic products, pre-filled systems for administering drugs, medical devices protected)

Members of the board:

Dominique Blanc (re-elected on 24 june 2009)
President of GE HEALTHCARE France
(medical imaging : radiology, echography, scanner, MRI, clinical information systems)

Jean-Luc Budillon (re-elected on 24 june 2009)
General Manager of PHILIPS HEALTHCARE
(medical imaging, scanner, MRI, TEP, echography, monitoring – cardiac, healthcare informatics)

Jean-Jacques Carre (Vice-President, re-elected on 24 june 2009)
Scientific & Medical Information Manager of TORNIER
(orthopaedic implants)

Gilles CHANTREL
Joint Manager of LA DIFFUSION TECHNIQUE FRANCAISE
(nebulizing systems, suction pumps, breastpumps, anti bedsores equipments, suction pumps,electric breast pumps, tubanometers)

Philippe CHENE (Vice-President)
Chairman of BAXTER
(sterile medical devices, anaesthesia apparatus, dialysis and hemodialysis, perfusion)

Sébastien CINQUIN (re-elected on 24 june 2009)
General Manager of SYST’AM
(aerosoltherapy, cushions and mattresses for bedsore prevention)

Didier GERBAUD (re-elected on 24 june 2009)
General Manager of B. BRAUN MEDICAL
(surgical instruments, vascular implants, neurologic and orthopaedic, medical devices protected, perfusion / transfusion, syringe & intravenous catheters, catheters & anaesthesia needle, infusion pumps, dialysis, surgical sutures, stomy devices)

Thierry HERBRETEAU (re-elected 19 June 2007)
Vice President France, UK, Canada & Africa of ST JUDE MEDICAL
(heart valves, mechanical and biologic, biologic and Dacron vasculary tubes, introductors, electrophysiology catheters, pacemakers and heart defibrillators, annuloplasty rings, vascular closure device)

Jean-Marc IDIER (re-elected on 24 june 2009)
General Manager of FOURNITURES HOSPITALIERES, President of FH Industrie
(orthopaedic implants (hip, knee, foot, ankle, shoulder), ligamentoplasty, bone subsitute, rachis)

Philippe LAROCHE (re-elected on 24 june 2009)
Surgical division Manager of COVIDIEN
(intensive care equipements, sutures, clip, surgical bracket, gynecologic implants, parietal protheses, enteral nutrition, urology, dialysis, vascular surgical, incontinence care, electrosurgery, oncology, contrast products)

Eric LE ROY (Vice-President Treasurer, re-elected on 24 june 2009)
Delegate General Manager of Laboratoires ALCON
(eye implants, ophtalmological instrumentation)

Dany-Christine MARIN (Vice-President, re-elected on 24 june 2009)
Strategical Affairs Manager of JOHNSON & JOHNSON MD & D (Medical devices and diagnostic) (surgical sutures, endoscopy instruments, ultrasounds technology, gastric band, cardiology, orthopaedic)

Christian POPULUS
General Manager of SIEMENS SAS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS
(equipments & services for radiology, medical imaging, radioterapy, echography and healthcare information systems)

Stéphane REGNAULT (re-elected on 24 june 2009)
Manager of the directory of VIGON
(medical devices single use, surgical draping)

Anne REISER
Chairman and Managing Director of RESMED
(ventilator for ICU, ventilator for home care)

Norbert RIETH
Chairman and Managing Director of AIR LIQUIDE SANTÉ MEDICAL SYSTEMS
(home respiratory assistance devices : oxygenotherapy, sleep apnoea, ventilation - anaesthesia : ventilators, monitoring, tank - resuscitation : ventilator - gas distribution devices for hospitals)