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San Diego, CA-based NuVasive Appointed Johnson Lai as Chief Information Officer
About the Company
NuVasive® is an innovative medical device company focused on developing minimally disruptive surgical products and procedures for the spine. Our mission is to improve the lives of patients who suffer from debilitating back, neck, or leg pain by creating cutting-edge products and procedures that revolutionize spine surgery through focusing on Speed of Innovation®, Absolute Responsiveness®, and Superior Clinical Results. Through innovative technological advancements, NuVasive has successfully progressed major spine surgery to where many patients have experienced extraordinary results—they are often walking the same day of surgery, experiencing less blood loss, spending less time in the hospital, and going back to work within four to six weeks (versus six months). NuVasive is the third largest medical device company in the global spine industry. We feature more than 90 products spanning lumbar, thoracic, and cervical applications, neuromonitoring services, and a biologics portfolio. Our products have been used in hundreds of thousands of spine surgeries. NuVasive had revenues of $811 million in 2015, including sales in over 30 countries, and employs more than 1,600 people globally. Corporate headquarters are in San Diego, California and Amsterdam, the Netherlands serves as international headquarters. The company has additional offices in the U.S. located in the states of Tennessee, Ohio, Maryland, and California. Internationally, NuVasive has additional offices located Puerto Rico, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Australia, Spain, Singapore, and Japan.
About the Person
Johnson Lai has served as our Chief Information Officer since August 2015. Mr. Lai has more than 20 years of IT leadership experience and brings to the role extensive expertise in advancement of enterprise IT initiatives. Most recently, he was Vice President of IT at Thermo Fisher Scientific where he was responsible for providing the IT leadership to the Laboratory Products business group, as well as being an executive member of the integration management team that governed the integration of Life Technologies into Thermo Fisher Scientific. In that capacity, Mr. Lai was responsible for driving processes that created a combined IT vision and successfully executing global programs that achieved the targeted revenue and cost synergy objectives. Additionally, he provided IT leadership for Thermo Fisher Scientific’s corporate functions with a business centric approach, including the support of mergers and acquisitions, among other responsibilities. Previously, as a senior IT leader at Life Technologies, Mr. Lai was responsible for delivering critical IT projects, including a global ERP, e-commerce and IT integration of companies acquired. Prior to that, Mr. Lai was a global IT leader for Abbott Vascular where he led the deployment of a single instance global ERP system and further matured the IT infrastructure and data centers to world-class levels. Mr. Lai has a Bachelor of Science in Managerial Economics from the University of California at Davis and a Master of Business Administration with an emphasis in MIS, Accounting & Finance from the University of California at Davis.
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