WILLIAM HAWKINS Medical Marketer Medtronic, a medical-device maker based in Minneapolis, Minn., saw net earnings rise 22.5%, to nearly $2 billion, in the past fiscal year, and that's great news for the company's new president and chief operating officer, William Hawkins, 50. Hawkins, an avid Duke University basketball fan, knows his competition; he has also worked for Eli Lilly, Guidant and Johnson & Johnson. The challenge for the biomedical engineer and former head of Medtronic's vascular business will be to keep the company hitting nothing but net. Next up on Hawkins' game plan: overseeing the launch of its first drug-coated cardiac...
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