Leadership

Brian Lehman is Abbott’s Senior Vice President, Core Laboratory Diagnostics, Commercial Operations. He was appointed in May of 2025. In this role, Brian is responsible for global sales, marketing, and services for the core lab diagnostic product line, as well as the development, operations, and commercialization for digital health solutions.

Prior to his current position, beginning in 2021, he served in the Medical Devices division as Vice President, Commercial Operations, Electrophysiology, where he led the market introduction, training and commercialization of products that impact millions of people around the world living with cardiac arrhythmias.

Brian joined Abbott in 2017 with the acquisition of St. Jude Medical, where he was Senior Vice President, Global Marketing, and U.S. Sales, Arrhythmia Therapies, supporting the cardiovascular businesses. In transition, he led the U.S. sales teams for Electrophysiology (EP) and Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) before being appointed to serve as Vice President, Commercial Operations, Arrythmia Therapies (EP, CRM and Heart Failure) in 2018.

Brian joined St. Jude Medical in 2006, progressing from field sales to market development to leading global marketing teams for the cardiovascular businesses of EP, CRM, capital systems, and pediatric cardiology. Prior to St. Jude Medical, he was a graduate of the GE Healthcare leadership development program, where he served as the Cardiology Account Manager for the Kansas City market.

Brian earned his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering with an emphasis on robotics and automation from the Georgia Institute of Technology, in Atlanta.