Jeffrey P. Rydin
Executive Vice President, Americas, Sales & Chairman of the Global Sales Executive Committee
Jeffrey P. Rydin has served as our Executive Vice President, Americas, Sales & Chairman of the Global Sales Executive Committee since January 2010. Prior to that he served as Senior Vice President of U.S. Sales from December 2005 to December 2009. Prior to joining us, from January 2003 until December 2005, Mr. Rydin served as Area Vice President of Orthobiologics for DePuy Spine, Inc., a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. Mr. Rydin has nearly 20 years of sales experience in the healthcare industry. He has served as Vice President of Sales at Orquest, Inc., a developer of biologically based implants for orthopaedics and spine surgery, which was acquired by DePuy. Prior to that, he served as Director of Sales at Symphonix Devices, Inc., a hearing technology company, and as Director of Sales at General Surgical Innovations, Inc. a developer, manufacturer, and marketer of tissue dissection systems for minimally invasive surgical procedures, which was acquired by Tyco International, Ltd. Mr. Rydin holds a B.A. in Social Ecology from the University of California, Irvine.