• Mike Dolan will head up the sales and business development efforts of Acuo Technologies (St. Paul, Minnesota). Dolan was most recently a senior director of sales with Emageon. Acuo makes grid software for medical image management tools.

• Roxanne Duan was named VP of research of Adlyfe (Rockville, Maryland). Most recently, Duan served as VP of research at Functional Genetics. Adlyfe makes diagnostic testing products for early targets of amyloid disease.

• Michael Brodeur was named VP of finance and CFO of MedicalCV (Minneapolis). Previously, Brodeur was CFO of Molecular Diagnostics. MedicalCV makes laser-based surgical ablation systems.

• U-Systems (San Jose, California) said that Bob Thompson will join the company on Oct. 1 as VP of marketing and business development. Previously Thompson was VP of marketing for Ultrasonix. U-Systems makes automated ultrasound systems.