John is the President and CEO of AmberGen, having first joined the company in July 2015 as Vice-President Product and Business Development. An experienced executive, entrepreneur, biomedical engineer and inventor, he formerly led worldwide Research and Development for 3 Johnson & Johnson businesses including multibillion dollar Ethicon Products. He founded consulting firm Clover Medical; is a principal at startup Origami Surgical; served as General Manager, North America for a subsidiary of automotive supplier Valeo; and held product development leadership positions at Baxter Healthcare.
John holds an MBA in General Management from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management, as well as a BS in Biomedical Engineering and an MS in Electrical Engineering from Boston University. He served on the Industrial Advisory Board for the Boston University Department of Biomedical Engineering, and his products have won the Canon Publications Medical Design Excellence Award (MDEA) three times. John is co-inventor on 24 US patents.