Becton Dickinson (BD) has named Bilal Muhsin as Executive Vice President and President of BD's future Connected Care segment, as part of the company's previously announced plans to update its structure as it advances its New BD strategy.
Mushin will serve as a member of the BD Executive Leadership Team reporting to Tom Polen, Chairman, CEO and President of BD and will lead the strategy development to support an effective transition into this new structure over the next several months.
BD Connected Care will aim to leverage advanced analytics and AI solutions alongside BD's smart devices to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of patient care while driving growth opportunities in new areas of health care, such as connected medication management, advanced workflow robotics and smart monitoring solutions. In this newly created role, Muhsin will be responsible for advancing BD's future Connected Care strategy, including shaping organisational capabilities, driving and executing the commercial strategy, accelerating industry-leading innovation initiatives, and ensuring operational and quality excellence.
"With his extensive and deep knowledge of connected care technologies, software and informatics strategies, combined with his intense focus on the customer, Bilal will have a profound impact at BD as we advance our Connected Care strategy with cutting-edge, AI-driven technology that transforms patient care by improving safety, efficiency and outcomes," said Polen. "This is another step forward in advancing our New BD strategy as a differentiated, pure-play MedTech leader, and Bilal will play a critical role in helping BD accelerate our growth and impact on healthcare by building on the significant digital, robotic and AI technology innovation that we are so well positioned to capitalise on."
Muhsin joins BD from Masimo, a health technology and consumer electronics manufacturer, where he spent 25 years, most recently as Chief Operating Officer. Prior to that, Bilal held several other leadership roles at Masimo, including executive vice president of engineering, marketing and regulatory, he also holds more than 50 patents in medical systems communication, analytics and patient monitoring systems.