Capio appoints François Demesmay as new Chief Medical Officer

François has held the position as deputy Chief Medical Officer (CMO) since March 2016 and is already today a member of Capio’s Group Management team. Prior to that François was the CMO of Capio France and has long experience in driving improvements in healthcare. François is succeeding Sveneric Svensson who will be retiring. 

Capio’s vision is to ensure the best achievable quality of life for every patient. The basis to achieve the vision is to speed up implementation of new treatment methods – Modern Medicine – with a decentralized and empowered organization – Modern Management. The CMO position is important in realizing this change, which is implemented with the patients’ needs as the starting point.

For information, please contact:

Thomas Berglund, President and CEO
Telephone: +46 733 88 86 00

Capio AB (publ) is a leading, pan-European healthcare provider offering a broad range of high quality medical, surgical and psychiatric healthcare services through its hospitals, specialist clinics and primary care units. Since the Danish operation was acquired at the beginning of 2017, Capio operates in five countries; Sweden, Norway, Denmark, France and Germany. In 2016, Capio’s 12,435 employees provided healthcare services during 4.7 million patient visits across the Group’s facilities, generating net sales of MSEK 14,069. Capio operates across three geographic segments: Nordic (54% of Group net sales 2016), France (38% of Group net sales 2016) and Germany (8% of Group net sales 2016). For more information about Capio, please see www.capio.com.