Carole (Gahafer) Roth

Carole is Chief People Officer of Imperative Care, a Medtech company focused on bringing life-changing technologies to patients suffering from stroke and other vascular diseases and has been with the company from its very earliest days to a $100M+ commercial organization today. Prior to Imperative Care, she played a strategic HR leadership role in a consulting capacity for Shifamed, a medical device incubator, and with Apama Medical, acquired by Boston Scientific Corporation (BSX) in 2017. Carole was VP of Human Resources for AccessClosure, followed by supporting the Orthopedics and Cordis cardiology businesses of Cardinal Health (CAH) after their acquisition of AccessClosure in 2014. Early in her career, Carole was in compensation, HRIS, and HR generalist roles with Conor Medsystems and ALZA, which were both acquired by Johnson & Johnson (JNJ). Carole holds a B.S. degree in Psychology from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.