{"id":9443,"date":"2024-11-25T14:49:35","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T20:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shockwavemedical.com\/about\/leadership\/rich-maher\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T11:08:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T17:08:20","slug":"rich-maher","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/shockwavemedical.com\/en-eu\/about\/leadership\/rich-maher\/","title":{"rendered":"Rich Maher"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section id=\"block_53febc3f1ee07bf0dea69b9ac7afbf0e\" class=\"block block--secondary-header wysiwyg_styles u-darkMode u-bgColor_primary shockwave\" aria-labelledby=\"block_53febc3f1ee07bf0dea69b9ac7afbf0e-heading\" aria-describedby=\"block_53febc3f1ee07bf0dea69b9ac7afbf0e-subheading\">\n\t<div class=\"secondary-header-container\" style=\"--alignment:center\">\n\t\t<h1 id=\"block_53febc3f1ee07bf0dea69b9ac7afbf0e-heading\" class=\"heading\">Rich Maher<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 id=\"block_53febc3f1ee07bf0dea69b9ac7afbf0e-subheading\" class=\"sub-heading\">VP, Sales North America<\/h3>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section\n\tid=\"block_6ed1bb8da4820007ef03e792288578e3\"\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_33f3cd907e6ca159faf014198150f859\" class=\"block block--wysiwyg wysiwyg_styles u-bgColorNone shockwave container\">\n\t<div class=\"u-wysiwyg u-animation\">\n\t\t<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11330 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/shockwavemedical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Rich_Maher_headshot.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"556\" height=\"510\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/shockwavemedical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Rich_Maher_headshot.png 556w, https:\/\/shockwavemedical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Rich_Maher_headshot-300x275.png 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 556px) 100vw, 556px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 556px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 556\/510;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rich serves as the Vice President of the North American Sales Team at Shockwave Medical. He joined the company in early 2020 as Director of Commercial Strategy and transitioned to the role of Area Vice President. Prior to joining Shockwave, Rich held various leadership roles at Boston Scientific, including Area Vice President for the Watchman, Interventional Cardiology, and Structural Heart divisions, as well as Director of Structural Heart Sales Training and Watchman Commercial Strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in his career, Rich was at Edwards Lifesciences and was one of the first employees to launch TAVR, and he worked at Abbott Vascular, contributing to the launch of the XIENCE V stent.<\/p>\n<p>Rich earned a B.S. in Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication and an M.S. in Sports Business from Florida State University, where he was a varsity football letterman and a member of the 1999 National Championship team.<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<\/section>\n\n\n<section id=\"block_00abd7db2789affe0d0e551e831b3a7c\" class=\"block block--cta-button-bar text_colors \">\n\t<div class=\"cta-button-bar--container\">\n\t\t<h2 id=\"block_00abd7db2789affe0d0e551e831b3a7c-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>Rich serves as the Vice President of the United States Sales Team at Shockwave Medical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":3865,"parent":7397,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9443","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shockwavemedical.com\/en-eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9443","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=9443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shockwavemedical.com\/en-eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13619,"href":"https:\/\/shockwavemedical.com\/en-eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9443\/revisions\/13619"}],"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=9443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}