Kem Hawkins

Kem Hawkins is president of Cook Group Incorporated, and serves as president and CEO of Cook Incorporated and Cook Medical. Kem joined Cook in 1981 as a management trainee.
After one year with Cook, Kem was appointed operations manager and in 1983 transferred to William Cook Europe in Denmark. Kem returned to the United States in 1985 as general manager of Cook’s Critical Care unit. In 1988 he was appointed vice president of Critical Care and in 1997 added the responsibility of president of Wilson-Cook Medical Inc. In 1999 Kem was promoted to executive vice president of sales and marketing and was appointed to his current positions in 2001.