Breakfast Briefing August 2018

Description

From its new location in West Carrollton, NuVasive is transforming spinal surgery. This medical device company enables safer, faster and smarter surgery using image enhancement technologies and new approaches to procedures in order to help patients avoid invasive spinal fusions and more. 

In fact, a patient's life is changed by NuVasive technology approximately every five minutes!

At this month's Breakfast Briefing, hear from Gary Amstutz, Superintendent of Machining for NuVasive Manufacturing and Michael Popow, Engineering Manager. Learn about the work the company is doing right here in the Miami Valley, why West Carrollton was chosen as the site of its manufacturing facility, and what the future holds for NuVasive.

About our speakers:

Gary Amstutz is the Superintendent of Machining for NuVasive Manufacturing and is responsible for leading the machinists in NuVasive’s state-of-art manufacturing facility in West Carrollton, Ohio.

Gary is an experienced manufacturing manager with a demonstrated history of working in the medical device industry as a machinist, applications engineer and production supervisor. He is a strong, operations professional skilled in non-profit organizations, operations management, team building, and leadership. Gary holds a Bachelor of Science degree focused in Business Leadership from Northeastern University.

Michael Popow is Engineering Manager at NuVasive and leads the team of engineers and programmers in NuVasive’s state-of-art manufacturing facility in West Carrollton, Ohio

Michael is an experienced engineering manager with a demonstrated history of working in the medical device industry. He is skilled in medical devices, biotechnology, product development, research and development (R&D), and process optimization. Prior to joining NuVasive in 2016, Michael was Biomaterials Engineering Manager with DSM / Kensey Nash Corporation where he managed the Biomaterials Orthro-structural Engineering Research & Development Group in a cGMP environment.  Michael has a Materials Science & Engineering degree from Penn State University.

This event is sponsored by  CareWorks ,  BNI Insurance  and  Pickrel, Schaeffer & Ebeling Co., LPA