• Integra LifeSciences (Plainsboro, New Jersey) reported that its board appointed Lloyd Howell, Jr. as a director of the company, which will return the Board to 10 total members. Director Anne VanLent has decided not to seek re-election to Integra's board, but will continue to serve until her current term expires. The board nominated Barbara Hill for election as a director at the 2013 annual meeting of stockholders scheduled for May 22. Howell is an executive VP at Booz Allen Hamilton, where he has held a variety of leadership positions since originally joining the firm in 1988 as a consultant. Hill is currently an operating partner of Moelis Capital Partners, a private equity firm, where she focuses on healthcare-related investments and providing strategic operating support for its healthcare portfolio companies. Integra offers solutions in orthopedics, neurosurgery, spine, reconstructive and general surgery.

• SinuSys (Palo Alto, California) reported recent additions to its management team. The company has named Michael Daniel as acting VP, regulatory; Eric Schaefer as director, commercial development; and Sagar Pushpala as operations advisor. Daniel has more than 30 years of regulatory, clinical, and quality system experience and has served as VP of regulatory and clinical affairs on a full-time or a part-time consulting basis for a number of medical device companies. Schaefer most recently was director, national sales for ArthroCare's ENT business unit. Pushpala is currently CEO of TSI Semiconductors. SinuSys makes medical device therapies to improve the health of millions of patients suffering from chronic sinusitis.

• Techne (Minneapolis) has named Charles Kummeth as CEO and a director of the company, effective April 1. Gregory Melsen, who has served as the company's interim CEO since November 2012, will continue to serve as VP of finance and CFO. Kummeth has served as president of Mass Spectrometry and Chromatography at Thermo Fisher Scientific from September 2011. Techne has two operating subsidiaries: Research and Diagnostic Systems and R&D Systems Europe.