Kirby Lester Celebrates 10 Years with Owner Garry Zage

Kirby Lester company is celebrating the 10-year anniversary since it was brought under the ownership and leadership of Garry Zage, R.Ph. The purchase sparked a dramatic rejuvenation for the venerable company that pioneered pharmacy automation in the 1970s. Since 2005 when Mr. Zage took the helm, Kirby Lester has notched several milestones, which include:

One of Zage’s first priorities was building the right leadership team having a vast amount of market and technology expertise: Dave Schultz, CTO; Aleks Geltser, vice president of engineering; Christopher Thomsen, vice president of business development; Dave Johnson, vice president of sales. Even now, after Kirby Lester became a division of Capsa Solutions in 2014, the entire executive team remains intact inside Kirby Lester. “The stability of this team is extremely beneficial in all aspects of the business from product development, customer relations, customer support and the operation of the company,” Zage says. “Some battle-weary pharmacists have told me that the only thing that’s remained reliable and steady in this era of constant change has been Kirby Lester. I take great pride in this company’s ability to reinvent itself starting in 2005,” says Zage about his purchase from one of Kirby Lester’s original founders, Rod Lester. “The old Kirby Lester devices that so many veteran pharmacists trusted are many miles behind us, literally and figuratively. I am proud to have ushered the respected ‘Kirby Lester’ name into a new era. We’re taking high-efficiency dispensing to new levels of patient safety as well assisting the pharmacies in reducing their costs to fill prescriptions.”