Allen L. Smith, chief commercial officer of BC Technical, Inc., passed away on Monday at his home in Roswell, Ga. He was 68 years old.

Smith spent 35 years working in the diagnostic imaging industry. Before his position with BC Technical, Smith held a number of senior executive management positions with GE Healthcare and worked at several other health care companies.

“Allen was a person who instantaneously made you feel welcome and in the presence of somebody who wanted to help you with whatever opportunity or problem you were carrying,” Don Bogutski, president of Diagnostix Plus Inc., who was friends with Smith, told DOTmed News. “He’ll be missed.”

Smith was born on Nov. 2, 1942 in Doniphan, Mo, according a family-placed death notice in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. A son of a lieutenant in the United States Air Force who served the country in World War II, Smith moved 32 times in his first 23 years of life. He also attended 16 schools in 16 years, according to the notice.

Smith was an avid traveler – he had traveled to all 50 U.S. states, 48 different countries and lived in Europe for more than six years. He had amassed more than 4.7 million air miles and acquired Lifetime Platinum Status at the Marriott Hotels chain, according to the notice.

Smith also loved music and played rhythm guitar in a band called Thallium Stallions. The band rewrote the lyrics of popular songs under a nuclear medicine theme. For example, the Thallium Stallions performed Rolling Stones' “Brown Sugar” as “Fluorine Sugar.”

A public visitation was held on December 22 at Roswell Funeral Home. Funeral services were held Thursday at 1 p.m. at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Roswell.

Instead of flowers, his loved ones asked people to consider a donation to the Best Friends Animal Society in Smith’s honor.

Smith is survived by his wife Pamella Smith, and their five children.

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