Össur hf: CEO Retirement and Succession Plan
STOCKHOLM, Dec. 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Jon Sigurdsson to retire after 26 years as Össur President and CEO,Sveinn Sölvason appointed President and CEO successor Jon Sigurdsson has decided to retire from his position as President and CEO of Össur. The Board of Directors has appointed Össur CFO,S...
Para-Athletes Using Össur Technology Dominate in Tokyo
STOCKHOLM, Sept. 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- A global team of para-athletes who wear Össur's renowned prosthetics won 28 medals and set new World and Paralympic Records during the recent 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games, the company announced today. Competitors using the company's iconic carbon fiber Che...
Össur Announces Global Roster of Team Össur Athletes
STOCKHOLM, May 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Twenty-three of the world's most accomplished para-athletes, including many of the most decorated World Recorder-holders and Paralympic champions, have been named to Team Össur, an inspirational group of accomplished global athletes and company brand ambas...
Össur Recognized by World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) as Leading Assistive Technology Development
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, March 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Össur (Nasdaq: OSSR), a global leader in the orthotics and prosthetics (O&P) industry with a rich history of ground-breaking innovations, has been recognized by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) for its intellectual property le...
Össur will be carbon neutral in 2021
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Feb. 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Össur (Nasdaq: OSSR), a global leader in the orthotics and prosthetics (O&P) industry with a rich history of ground-breaking innovations, announced today that the company will be carbon neutral in 2021, its 50th anniversary year. Originally founde...
Össur Celebrates 20 Years as a Publicly Traded Company
President and CEO Jon Sigurdsson Rings Nasdaq Closing Bell on December 16 NEW YORK, Dec. 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- To mark Össur's 20th anniversary as a publicly traded company,Jon Sigurdsson, the company's President and CEO, rang the closing bell at the Nasdaq MarketSite inNew York's Times Squar...
Ossur and Alfred Mann Foundation Sign New Agreement to Extend Exploration of Mind-Controlled Prosthetics
REYKJAVIK, Iceland and SANTA CLARITA, CA, Nov. 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Jon Sigurdsson, President & CEO of Ossur and John Petrovich, CEO of the Alfred Mann Foundation (AMF) recently signed a milestone agreement that allows Ossur to further develop and license AMF's implanted myoelectric sensor (IM...
Ossur Technologies Featured in Nature Medicine Article Reporting for the First Time on Amputees "Feeling" Their Prosthetic Foot and Knee
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Sept. 11, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- An article published in the journalNature Medicine reports that two above knee lower-limb amputees who had intraneural electrodes implanted in their thighs and wore Ossur prosthetic componentry are the first in the world to "feel" their prostheti...
Ossur Announces 2019-2020 Roster of Team Ossur Athletes
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, June 25, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Twenty-two accomplished para-athletes, including many of the world's most renowned and decorated Paralympians from across the globe, have been named to Team Össur, the global prosthetics and orthopaedics innovator announced today. Össur has been ...
