I-Flow Names Dal Porto New Chief Operating Officer

* James J. Dal Porto has been appointed chief operating officer of I-Flow Corp., an Irvine manufacturer of medical devices. Dal Porto, who joined the company in 1989, had been promoted to executive vice president last May. In addition, the company also appointed Gayle L. Arnold to vice president of finance, Anthony E. Norkus to director of domestic sales and marketing and Eric Mabry to director of international marketing. Arnold has been with the company since 1991 as corporate controller. Norkus joined the company in 1991 as Western regional sales manager and was promoted to director of marketing in 1993. Mabry, who joined I-Flow in 1988 as a senior software engineer, was appointed software engineering manager in 1991 and added the responsibilities of manager of Management Information Systems in 1992.