{"56419":{"#nid":"56419","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Petit back, new role with MiMedx Group","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAtlanta Business Chronicle - by Urvaksh Karkaria Staff Writer\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAn inability to stay retired was one reason Parker \u0022Pete\u0022 Petit took over the wheel at orthopedic and spine implant maker MiMedx Group Inc. A serial entrepreneur, Petit launched Healthdyne and later ran its subsidiary, Matria Healthcare Inc. Less than a year after selling Matria to Inverness Medical Innovations Inc.  for $900 million, Petit is back in the catbird seat.\u201cIt seems like I\u0027m not good at retiring,\u201d Petit said late Thursday afternoon. \u201cI missed the interaction with my management teams.\u201d MiMedx is developing biomaterial-based products for use in the musculoskeletal specialties, based on technology from Georgia Tech and the University of South Florida.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/houston.bizjournals.com\/houston\/othercities\/atlanta\/stories\/2009\/09\/07\/daily69.html?s=industry\u0026amp;i=banking_financial_services\u0027\u003EView Full Article\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Having knocked the ball out of the proverbial park with last year\u2019s $900 million sale of Matria Healthcare Inc., Atlanta biotech big shot Parker \u201cPete\u201d Petit is giving it another shot... this time with a medical implant firm.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Petit backing \u2018biomaterials\u2019 biz MiMedx"}],"uid":"27349","created_gmt":"2009-09-14 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:06","author":"Floyd Wood","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-09-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2009-09-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"56420":{"id":"56420","type":"image","title":"Parker H. \\\u0022Pete\\\u0022 Petit","body":null,"created":"1449175629","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:47:09","changed":"1475894499","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:39","alt":"Parker H. \\\u0022Pete\\\u0022 Petit","file":{"fid":"190466","name":"tqb48761.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tqb48761_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tqb48761_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":10763,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tqb48761_0.jpg?itok=ncp5573s"}}},"media_ids":["56420"],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"139","name":"Business"},{"id":"131","name":"Economic Development and Policy"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"3024","name":"biomaterials"},{"id":"292","name":"Biotech"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"248","name":"IBB"},{"id":"9542","name":"MiMedx"},{"id":"9541","name":"Pete Petit"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EFloyd Wood\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIBB\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=fwood3\u0022\u003EContact Floyd Wood\u003C\/a\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["floyd.wood@ibb.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}