Name: Justin Spencer
Current role: CFO, Eko Health
Previous role: CFO, Vocera Communications
Digital stethoscope developer Eko Health has appointed Justin Spencer as CFO. Spencer previously held the same title at Vocera Communications, a care coordination company that Stryker bought for almost $3 billion in 2022.
Eko’s new CFO spent seven years at Vocera but left around six months before Stryker agreed to buy the company. Spencer stepped down after being selected to serve as a mission president for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The executive began looking for a new role after finishing the three-year volunteer assignment last year.
Spencer’s arrival at Eko comes months after the digital health company appointed his former colleague Brent Lang to its board of directors. Lang was Vocera’s CEO for nearly a decade before the Stryker acquisition.
Spencer worked as CFO at the technology companies Symmetricom and Covad Communications earlier in his career. Like Vocera, Symmetricom and Covad were publicly traded when Spencer led their finance teams.
Eko is the first privately held company that Spencer has joined as CFO. The company raised $41 million in June 2024 to expand access to technology that uses artificial intelligence to detect cardiac and pulmonary disease. Eko closed the series D financing round months after receiving a 510(k) clearance that added heart failure detection to the list of capabilities of its Sensora Cardiac Early Detection Platform.
The company launched Sensora, a digital stethoscope platform, in 2023. The system uses AI to detect structural murmurs, a sign of valvular heart disease. By integrating such capabilities into a stethoscope, Eko is trying to help clinicians identify patients with signs of heart and lung disease before they develop severe symptoms.
Eko announced the appointment of Spencer weeks after naming David Bakey general manager of its consumer division. Bakey will lead the global expansion of Eko’s retail and direct-to-clinician channels.
Eko’s previous CFO, Renee Gaeta, left the company in January 2024 to join Shockwave Medical. Johnson & Johnson acquired Shockwave last year for $13.1 billion.
