June 25, 2010 (FinancialWire) (Go to http://www.financialwire.net/?s=ftrdnwswnd for all of today’s featured news.) — Bioheart, Inc., (OTCBB: BHRT) has appointed Mike Tomas president and chief executive officer and member of the board of directors. Karl Groth, who has been Bioheart's president and CEO, will retain his position as chairman of the board of directors.

Tomas has been president for the past nine years of The ASTRI Group, an early stage private equity investment company in Florida with an investment in Bioheart since 2001.

From 2003 to 2008 he served on Bioheart's board as the independent representative of The ASTRI Group.

ASTRI provides capital, business development and strategic marketing support to emerging private companies. Tomas will continue to serve as president of The ASTRI Group.

Peggy Farley has resigned as Bioheart’s chief operating and financial officer effective July 1. She will retain her seat on the board. The firm said that a new CFO is to be announced shortly.

Bioheart also announced today that its founder, Howard Leonhardt, will return to the board.

Florida-based Bioheart works in the cardiovascular sector of the cell technology industry, delivering cell therapies, intelligent devices and biologics meant to help address congestive heart failure, lower limb ischemia, chronic heart ischemia, acute myocardial infarctions and other issues.  

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