Samuel J. Alioto, President and CEO
Samuel Alioto has spent over fifty (50) years in pharmaceutical, consumer healthcare products, and medical device sales/marketing management at several divisions of American Cyanamid Company (ACCO) including Lederle Pharmaceuticals, Lederle Consumer Health, Lederle International and Storz Ophthalmics. Early at Lederle, he had a successful pharmaceutical sales/sales management track record. Moving on to marketing management, he participated in the introduction and managed CENTRUM®, multivitamin multimineral, and CENTRUM Jr., children's multivitamin multimineral, and launched both CALTRATE®, calcium supplement, and FIBERCON®, fiber laxative, brands.
In 1989, Mr. Alioto personally originated and developed OCUVITE®, the first major antioxidant vitamin mineral product for age related macular degeneration (AMD) patients. OCUVITE created a new segment, i.e., vision care supplements, in the vitamin category and is one of the major supplement success stories of the past thirty (30) years. The OCUVITE brand is now part of a Bausch & Lomb AMD market franchise that includes several OCUVITE products and has been extended to include the PRESERVISION brand. In 2023, the estimated annual sales of the B&L AMD franchise were in excess of M$400.
In 1995, Mr. Alioto founded MediNiche, Inc. (now MediNiche International, Inc.) and continues to have primary responsibility for all company operations and new product development.
Mr. Alioto is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh and has received Executive Management Seminar Certificates from Columbia, Dartmouth (Tuck School), and the University of Virginia (Darden School).
Kathryn Reynolds, Vice President
Kathryn Reynolds, OD has been with MediNiche since January, 2017. A graduate of the University of Missouri, Doctor Reynolds went on to obtain her Doctor of Optometry degree from the University of Missouri – St. Louis School of Optometry in 1992. She has been involved in establishing the MediNiche company infrastructure and operating systems.
Doctor Reynolds has participated in the development of several key marketing programs for major MediNiche brands and continues to participate in the management of MediNiche projects in marketing, sales, manufacturing, distribution, accounting and new product development.
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