A specialist in the healthcare sector, David Hale has been Chief Executive Officer of Guerbet since December 2019, following several months with the group as Chief Commercial Officer and member of the Executive Committee in charge of sales, marketing, development and engineering of diagnostic imaging medical devices. David Hale has worked for Ascom and Boston Consulting Group, among others. He then joined GE Healthcare in France and the United States, where for 15 years he held several management positions in the areas of quality, sales, marketing and product management in the services and information systems sectors. David Hale graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) with a degree in industrial and systems engineering and an MBA from the Institute of Management Development (Switzerland).