Curt Hartman’s son

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please keep us posted on if that happens. That’s the kind of thing that shareholders should know about. Curt is running this major company like a little league baseball team (or all star team). “My son deserves this because I say so...”
 












better yet, it’s the kind of thing the board of directors should know about. I wonder, if given the choice: promote your son to RVP but lose your job immediately OR keep your job but your son has to go. What would he choose? I think he’d say “I think I have a solution for both! I can promote my son and STILL be CEO! How about that?!?!”
 






























I’ve never worked there. But it’s a stock I held a position in for years (no longer). When CH came over, I heard all about his ouster from Stryker and couldn’t believe it. But I decided to see how it would unfold. I got out of it about 3 years ago. I think corporate governance at many many companies is a total sham. When I heard that CH hired his own son, I couldn’t believe it. If it’s true that he may be in line for a big east coast manager job, I feel like the board needs to bounce CH. How anyone could think that is ok at a big publicly traded company is beyond me....
 












its funny, some of these ceo’s think they’re running their family business or some car dealership that’s been in their family forever. No. You are the ceo of a large publicly traded company. You answer to the board and the shareholders. Nepotism should be rooted out immediately.
 






anonymous said:
Why didn’t the guy just avoid all the gossip, and get his kid a job somewhere else? Seems foolish to leave yourself open to nepotism accusations. Didn’t he have any friends at ugh I don’t know... Stryker that would hire him?
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My guess is that Curt's reputation at Stryker would be a hindrance to his son getting a job there.
 






maybe but he is on boards of med device companies too, I just think the son thing is so blatantly against what he positioned himself as that someone in his inner circle would have said something
 






anonymous said:
maybe but he is on boards of med device companies too, I just think the son thing is so blatantly against what he positioned himself as that someone in his inner circle would have said something
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Yes, your 100% right. Curt is a real piece of work. If you ever stood next to him and had a conversation, you'd walk away knowing how full of hot air he is. Whether he ends up hiring his son for that job or not, it doesn't really matter, Curt is the wrong guy for the job. It's 2018 and what has he done to correct the problem of with this company that he was hired for in 2014, to do? The one good acquisition was Surgiquest, but that deal was almost completed by the old board, so old Curt can't take credit for that (even though he still does). The problem really is bigger than Curt though. Even though I have a really hard time seeing past the fact that Curt is in a position way over his head. I think it's astounding that guy he could be getting paid North of $8m a year from a failing publicly held company. But what can you honesty say? Would you turn down that opportunity if you were him? What kind of board would have hired Curt in the first place? I think I'd take the old board with the Corasantie's back in a heart beat. At least with them, the profit was going to a somewhat decent family, that actually did the work to get Conmed from nothing, to the company it became.
 












high flying? Since Nov 2014 when his majesty and cronies took over the stock has increased 80% which might sound great but you could have gone with the Nasdaq med tech etf and increased 89% with less risk, but if you did not mind betting on one company you would have been even better off going with stryker after Curt was fired and had an increase of 96% since November 2014. High flying ? Nice try Curt
 






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