{"id":10973,"date":"2024-12-20T07:22:09","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T13:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shockwavemedical.com\/about\/leadership\/colin-tower\/"},"modified":"2025-01-14T12:08:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T18:08:36","slug":"colin-towner","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/shockwavemedical.com\/en-eu\/about\/leadership\/colin-towner\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin Towner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section id=\"block_28032bc090f8e7256f18188655be3480\" class=\"block block--secondary-header wysiwyg_styles u-darkMode u-bgColor_primary\" aria-labelledby=\"block_28032bc090f8e7256f18188655be3480-heading\" aria-describedby=\"block_28032bc090f8e7256f18188655be3480-subheading\">\n\t<div class=\"secondary-header-container\" style=\"--alignment:center\">\n\t\t<h1 id=\"block_28032bc090f8e7256f18188655be3480-heading\" class=\"heading\">Colin Towner<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 id=\"block_28032bc090f8e7256f18188655be3480-subheading\" class=\"sub-heading\">VP, Global Commercial Operations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section\n\tid=\"block_3ad7763e90c44e7afbb8f7c53f577421\"\n\tclass=\"block block--spacer-with-optional-divider \"\n\taria-label=\"Spacer section with optional divider\">\n\t<div class=\"spacer-with-optional-divider-container container\">\n\n\t\t<!-- Space Above -->\n\t\t<div\n\t\t\tclass=\"space-above\"\n\t\t\tstyle=\"--aboveDesktop: 30px; --aboveMobile: 20px;\"\n\t\t\taria-hidden=\"true\"\n\t\t\trole=\"presentation\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<!-- Optional Divider -->\n\t\t\n\t\t<!-- Space Below -->\n\t\t<div\n\t\t\tclass=\"space-below\"\n\t\t\tstyle=\"--belowDesktop: 0px; --belowMobile: 0px;\"\n\t\t\taria-hidden=\"true\"\n\t\t\trole=\"presentation\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section id=\"block_5563b673cf6125700b0d2e040c8f331c\" class=\"block block--wysiwyg wysiwyg_styles u-bgColorNone container\">\n\t<div class=\"u-wysiwyg u-animation\">\n\t\t<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11274 alignleft lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/shockwavemedical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Colin_Towner_headshot-300x275.png\" alt=\"Black and white headshot of Colin Towner\" width=\"300\" height=\"275\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/shockwavemedical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Colin_Towner_headshot-300x275.png 300w, https:\/\/shockwavemedical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Colin_Towner_headshot.png 556w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/275;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Colin serves as Shockwave\u2019s Commercial Operations leader overseeing Sales Operations, Field Inventory, Customer Service, Contract Administration, Market Analytics and Modeling. He joined Shockwave in 2020 as the Director of Sales Operations and became Vice President in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Colin served as Vice President Global Planning and Metrics for Wright Medical where he led the S&OP process and re-structured the U.S. sales force and as a Director of Commercial Operations at Medtronic, Covidien, ev3 and Foxhollow. Colin began his career as a design engineer and has held a variety of supply chain and commercial roles.<\/p>\n<p>Colin earned his B.S. in Civil Engineering and Masters of Applied Statistics from Colorado State University and an MBA from the Ohio State University.<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<\/section>\n\n<section\n\tid=\"block_3ad7763e90c44e7afbb8f7c53f577421\"\n\tclass=\"block block--spacer-with-optional-divider \"\n\taria-label=\"Spacer section with optional divider\">\n\t<div class=\"spacer-with-optional-divider-container container\">\n\n\t\t<!-- Space Above -->\n\t\t<div\n\t\t\tclass=\"space-above\"\n\t\t\tstyle=\"--aboveDesktop: 30px; --aboveMobile: 20px;\"\n\t\t\taria-hidden=\"true\"\n\t\t\trole=\"presentation\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<!-- Optional Divider -->\n\t\t\n\t\t<!-- Space Below -->\n\t\t<div\n\t\t\tclass=\"space-below\"\n\t\t\tstyle=\"--belowDesktop: 0px; --belowMobile: 0px;\"\n\t\t\taria-hidden=\"true\"\n\t\t\trole=\"presentation\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section id=\"block_6622c1c5b20962cead482c73b27c27e1\" class=\"block block--cta-button-bar text_colors \">\n\t<div class=\"cta-button-bar--container\">\n\t\t<h2 id=\"block_6622c1c5b20962cead482c73b27c27e1-heading\" class=\"heading\">\n\t\t\tLearn More About Shockwave Medical\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t<div class=\"buttons\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"cta-button-bar--links-container\" role=\"list\" aria-label=\"Call-to-action buttons\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"resource-list--link\" role=\"listitem\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<a data-atom=\"button\" class=\"on-blue btn--primary\" href=\"https:\/\/shockwavemedical.com\/en-eu\/about\/\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"About Us - link to page\" >About Us<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fa-sharp fa-arrow-right fa-solid\"><\/i><\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin serves as Shockwave&#8217;s Commercial Operations leader overseeing Sales Operations, Field Inventory, Customer Service, Contract Administration, Market Analytics and Modeling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":3865,"parent":7397,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10973","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shockwavemedical.com\/en-eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shockwavemedical.com\/en-eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shockwavemedical.com\/en-eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shockwavemedical.com\/en-eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shockwavemedical.com\/en-eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shockwavemedical.com\/en-eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10973\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shockwavemedical.com\/en-eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shockwavemedical.com\/en-eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shockwavemedical.com\/en-eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}