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Mark Grant

Mark Grant

President, CEO & Director

Mark Grant

President, CEO & Director

Mark Grant joined Lifeward as President and Chief Executive Officer in June of 2025, bringing more than 25 years of leadership experience in healthcare and medical technology. Prior to Lifeward, Mark held senior executive roles across general management, commercial leadership, and business development in multiple healthcare sectors—including orthopedic rehabilitation, surgery, cardiovascular, diabetes, and soft tissue robotics.

Mark spent nearly two decades at Medtronic, where he most recently served as Vice President of the Diabetes business. In that role, he led the $1.5B Americas region and a 2,000-person commercial organization. Immediately prior to Lifeward, he served as President of the Americas and Chief Commercial Officer at IMRA Surgical, where he drove global market expansion and introduced pioneering models for ethical soft tissue robotic surgical education.

Mr. Grant fortifies his professional experience with a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Technology from East Carolina University.

Mark Grant
Bob Marshall

Bob Marshall

Chair of the Board

Bob Marshall

Chair of the Board

Bob Marshall has served on our board since November 2024.  Mr. Marshall serves as the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Lantheus Holdings, Inc., a publicly traded radiopharmaceutical company, where he has worked since September 2018.  Prior to joining Lantheus, Mr. Marshall spent 16 years with Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc., a publicly traded global medical device company with a leading position in musculoskeletal health, in which he held various senior leadership roles, including Vice President, Investor Relations and Corporate Treasurer, and most recently Vice President, Americas Finance, for the U.S., Canadian and Latin American commercial markets. Before Zimmer Biomet, Mr. Marshall was employed with Brown & Williamson Tobacco, a subsidiary of British American Tobacco, p.l.c., in Louisville, Kentucky, where he held several positions of increasing responsibility.   Mr. Marshall holds a B.S. degree in Business Administration from the University of Notre Dame and an M.B.A. degree from Indiana University.  

Chair of the Audit Committee
Member of the Finance Committee
Bob Marshall
Dr. John William Poduska

Dr. John William Poduska

Director

Dr. John William Poduska

Director

Dr. John William Poduska has served on our Board since September 2014 as an external director. Dr. Poduska currently serves as a director of EXA Corporation (NASDAQ: EXA) where he serves as chairman of the compensation committee and a member of the nominating and governance committee. He also serves as a director on the boards of a number of privately-held companies. Dr. Poduska also served as a director of Novell, Inc. until 2011 and of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation and Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. until 2009. Dr. Poduska was the Chairman of Advanced Visual Systems Inc., a provider of visualization software, from January 1992 to December 2001. From December 1989 until December 1991, Dr. Poduska was President and Chief Executive Officer of Stardent Computer Inc., a computer manufacturer. From December 1985 until December 1989, Dr. Poduska served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Stellar Computer Inc., a computer manufacturer he founded which is the predecessor of Stardent Computer Inc. Prior to founding Stellar Computer, Inc., Dr. Poduska founded Apollo Computer Inc. and Prime Computer, Inc. Dr. Poduska holds a Sc.D. from MIT and an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Lowell University.
Independent Director
Member of the Audit Committee
Chair of the Compensation Committee
Member of the Finance Committee
Dr. John William Poduska
Randel Richner

Randel Richner

Director

Randel Richner

Director

Randel E. Richner, BSN, MPH began serving on our Board as of Nov. 1, 2020. She has over 30 years of experience in health care policy, reimbursement, economics. She has been active in public policy serving as the first industry representative on the Executive Committee of the Medicare Coverage Advisory Committee and currently serves on the Executive Dean’s Advisory Board at the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health. She founded The Neocure Group which provided health economics and reimbursement strategic services to the healthcare industry. Previously she established the global reimbursement functions for Boston Scientific. She holds a Master’s Degree in Public Health and Bachelors in Nursing from the University of Michigan.
Member of the Compensation Committee
Chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
Randel Richner
Mike Swinford

Mike Swinford

Director

Mike Swinford

Director

Mike Swinford began serving on our board in April 2024. Mr. Swinford has more than 30 years of experience in healthcare and has served as CEO of Numotion since 2014. He has grown Numotion into the largest provider of mobility and independence solutions in the United States, serving over four hundred thousand individuals annually with Spinal Cord Injuries, Traumatic Brain Injuries, ALS, Muscular Dystrophy, Cerebral Palsy, Multiple Sclerosis, Spinal Muscular Atrophy, Amputees, and many other mobility related disabilities. He has expanded commercial coverage with over 5000 health plans, rehab hospitals, specialty and multi-disciplinary clinics, skilled nursing facilities, primary care and home health providers. He has led efforts for benefit coverage determination for Power Wheelchair Seat Elevation systems in 2023 and is actively leading efforts for Power Standing Wheelchairs and reform of Service and Repair regulations and reimbursement levels. Prior to Numotion, Mike worked at GE Healthcare over a 22 year career where he held multiple leadership commercial and operational roles. He was appointed an officer of the General Electric Company in 2011 as the President and CEO of the $5B GE Healthcare Services global business. Mike also serves as a director of CareATC, a technology enabled population health primary care provider, as well as a director of Aspen Surgical, a global surgical supply manufacturer.
Member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
Mike Swinford