Embecta elects CEO Devdatt Kurdikar as chairman

Embecta (EMBC) announced that the board of directors of Embecta has elected Devdatt Kurdikar as chairman of the board and Claire Pomeroy as lead independent director, effective immediately. These changes follow the previously announced retirement of David Melcher, non-executive chairman of the board due to several commitments outside of his service to the Company. Kurdikar joined Becton Dickinson in 2021 to lead the diabetes care business and became the president and CEO of the company and a member of its board of directors upon completion of its spinoff from BD in 2022.