April 13, 2010 (FinancialWire) – Medican device maker Accuray Inc. (NASDAQ: ARAY) said that Louis J. Lavigne, Jr. has been appointed as chairperson of the company's board of directors, effective April 8.

Lavigne will succeed Wayne Wu who is stepping down from service as chairperson but will remain a member of Accuray's board, on which he has served since April 1998.

Wu, who began working with Accuray in its earliest days as a venture capital investor, has served as Accuray's chairperson since May 2004. He guided the company through its initial public offering in February 2007 and into its current role as a leading publicly-traded medical device company.

Lavigne, who currently is a management consultant specializing in the areas of corporate finance, accounting and strategy, has been a member of Accuray's board since September 2009 and most recently has been chair of its compensation committee.

He was the chief financial officer at Genentech Inc., from 1988 and executive vice president from 1997 until his retirement in 2005. He serves on the boards of Allergan, Inc. and BMC Software, Inc., where he also chairs the audit committee.

California-based Accuray is engaged in the field of radiosurgery. The firm develops and markets the CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery System, which extends the use of radiosurgery to include extracranial tumors, including those in the spine, lung, prostate, liver and pancreas.

The company said that 190 of these systems have been installed in hospitals in the Americas, Europe and Asia.

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