Bausch & Lomb

Brian Harris

Bausch & Lomb has appointed Brian J. Harris as chief financial officer and corporate vice president, with immediate effect. A business and finance executive with more than three decades of experience with multinational organizations, in 1989 Mr. Harris held positions of increasing responsibility with Tomkins plc, the industrial, automotive, building products and engineering manufacturing conglomerate. These included roles as president of the $2 billion Worldwide Power Transmission business for Denver, Colorado-based Gates Corporation, as well as senior vice president for Strategic Business Development, and chief financial officer and company secretary.

Mitsuo Hirose

Bausch & Lomb Japan has named Mitsuo Hirose as chairman, effective immediately. Mr. Hirose has served on the subsidiary’s Board of Directors since January 2009. Most recently he was representative director and chairman of Pacific Golf Group International Holdings KK. He has also served as president and representative director for both Johnson & Johnson Japan Inc. and Johnson & Johnson Medical Company. He was responsible for introducing disposable contact lenses to the Japanese market.

American Academy of Ophthalmology

David W. Parke II

David W. Parke II, MD, has taken the helm of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) as the Academy’s new executive vice president and chief executive officer. He succeeds H. Dunbar Hoskins Jr., MD, who led the AAO since 1993 and is now retiring. Dr. Parke has served on the Academy’s Board of Trustees since 2000 and was the 2008 Academy president. He was president and CEO of the Dean McGee Eye Institute in Oklahoma City and professor and chair of the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine.

Charmant Group

Masao Miyachi

Charmant Inc has announced that Masao Miyachi, currently the company’s Executive Director, will become the President and CEO of the group. Junji Horikawa, the current President & CEO will remain on the Board and assume the post of Vice Chairman, a newly created position as the company’s senior executive. Kaoru Horikawa the founder of the Charmant Group will maintain his active role as the groups Chairman. In addition he will continue as a member on the Board of Directors. Masao Miyachi, who joined the company in 1980, spent 29 years in sales, marketing and products planning & development. Most recently he was Executive Director of Charmant Inc.

Transitions Optical

Scott Henning

Transitions Optical, Inc. has named Scott Henning director of its eyecare professional and professional development team. In his new role, Henning, who previously acted as national retail key account executive for Transitions, will be in charge of developing and driving initiatives to support eyecare professionals through education and marketing programs, and new communications strategies. He will also be responsible for the creation and implementation of an ECP loyalty program.

LENSCO

Grant Parsons

LENSCO has announced the promotion of Grant Parsons to Director of Manufacturing & Consultation. Parsons has 30 years experience in contact lens design manufacturing and fitting consultation and is also certified by Paragon Vision Sciences for Paragon CRT. His experience has allowed him the honor to study under such prominent industry experts as the renowned Dr. Leonard Bronstein, Bob Stone, and Dr. J.R. Reynolds. Eventually this led to a partnership between Grant and Bob Stone forming Contact Lens Research Laboratory, where Grant held the Vice President position until 1996, when LENSCO acquired the company.

Mark Andre Gets CLSA Award

Mark Andre

Mark Andre was recently awarded the Contact Lens Society of America’s Joseph W. Soper Award for Excellence in Education. The award recognizes “outstanding contributions in the area of contact lens education,” according to the CLSA. Andre, an associate professor of optometry at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Ore., has more than 30 years’ experience in contact lenses. Before joining the university he was director of the contact lens service at the Casey Eye Institute at the Oregon Health and Sciences University.