John Y. Yoon has been appointed president and chief executive officer of Salt Lake-based Paradigm Medical Industries Inc. by the company's board of directors.
Yoon replaces Jeffrey F. Poore, who served in those positions for one year.
Yoon, 40, has been involved in management, strategic planning, sales and marketing. Most recently he was senior director of marketing for the Enterprise Voice Division of 3Com Corp. He previously was director of strategic planning and product development at US Robotics and has served in various management and marketing functions at General Electric.
Paradigm develops, manufactures and markets surgical and diagnostic equipment and consumable products for the medical industry.