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In his role, Viju is responsible for global operations, including manufacturing, direct procurement, regulatory affairs, quality assurance, sustainability, integrated business planning, logistics and advanced operations such as additive manufacturing technology development.
Prior to joining us, Viju served as Chief Supply Chain Officer and Senior Vice President at Verizon. Before his work at Verizon, Viju held key leadership roles at Intel in technology, supply chain and manufacturing operations.
Viju earned his doctoral degree from the University of Pennsylvania and dual graduate degrees (MBA, S.M. in electrical engineering) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Leaders for Global Operations program. He also holds a graduate degree (M.S.E. in computer science engineering) from the University of Michigan and a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the University of Kerala, India.
Viju Menon
Group President, Global Quality & Operations
Stryker
Chuck is the Vice President and Chief Quality Officer for Johnson & Johnson MedTech, one of the world’s largest medical device companies. His work gives him the opportunity to shape the future of J&J while ensuring we deliver the highest quality products to patients and customers. He ispassionate about the remarkable technology Johnson & Johnson MedTech brings to the market, but more importantly, the people that enable that to be realized.
Chuck honored to lead an extraordinary group of dedicated, passionate, customer-focused, and innovative teams across the globe in over 100 locations. If you ask his J&J and industry colleagues about him, Chuck hopes they would describe him as a passionate leader who loves to develop and execute outcomes-based strategies. Chuck believes it’s important to have a personal motto to live into each day, and for him that is, “Work hard and always do the right thing.”
Chuck Medovich
VP & Chief Quality Officer
Johnson & Johnson
Chester Zelaya is the Senior Vice President of Implant Network Global Operations at Edwards Lifesciences, overseeing global facilities that support both Surgical Heart Valve and Trans-Catheter Divisions. With over 30 years of leadership experience in the biopharmaceutical and medical device industries, Chester has a proven track record of driving operational excellence across diverse, multi-plant environments. Prior to joining Edwards, he held senior roles at Shire and Baxter, where he managed large-scale plasma manufacturing operations and led significant global initiatives. Chester also serves as a board member for Heart to Heart Global Cardiac Care, helping to expand access to life-saving cardiac treatments in underserved regions. His strategic vision, technical expertise, and commitment to building high-performing teams contribute to his success as a leader in the healthcare industry.
Chester Zelaya
Senior Vice President Implant Network Global Operations
Edwards Lifesciences
Dina is currently the Vice President of Regulatory Affairs for Terumo Medical Corporation where she oversees both US and global Regulatory Affairs. Prior to joining Terumo in 2008, Dina spent 17 years at the FDA as a reviewer and later a branch chief in the Division of Cardiovascular Devices. She also spent some time as a Sr. RA consultant prior to joining Terumo.
Dina holds a BS in Biomedical Engineering from The Catholic University of America and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Maryland.
Dina Justice
Vice President, Regulatory Affairs
Terumo Medical Corporation
Max serves as senior vice president operational performance for BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a leading global medical technology company headquartered in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey. He is also a member of the BD Integrated Supply Chain Leadership Team. Max joined BD in 2021.
He first served as VP of Operational Excellence, driving continuous improvement across the end-to-end supply chain. He led the design, launch and implementation of BD Excellence; he contributed to improve operational performance focusing on savings acceleration, efficiency of critical lines and labor productivity. As part of his role, he led risk management for Integrated Supply Chain, driving progressive risk mitigation to secure business continuity of operations.
Before joining BD, Max had multiple cross-sector Executive roles in Manufacturing and Supply Chain in Fast Moving Consumer Goods, Consumer Electronics and Automotive. He served as Operational Excellence Leader in Johnson & Johnson Consumer Health and Unilever. He worked for 13 years in Automotive where he began his career at Ferrari-Maserati before continuing with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, serving as Manufacturing Director, Global Head of Supplier Development and Lean Director.
Max holds an Executive MBA from ESCP Business School in Paris, France, a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from ‘La Sapienza’ in Rome, Italy, and a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Perugia, Italy.
Max Urbini
Senior Vice President Operational Performance
BD
Terry leads Beckman Coulter’s global operations team, which is focused on manufacturing, distribution, logistics, supply chain planning, and strategic sourcing across all business units.
Terry brings more than 30 years of experience in supply chain and manufacturing leadership. Before joining Beckman Coulter in 2024, Terry led global operations at SI Group and held leadership roles at Henkel, Novartis, Merck, and Johnson & Johnson. Terry brings previous Danaher experience with ChemTreat, an operating company now part of Veralto. Terry holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Rutgers University and a Master of Business Administration in International Finance from Rider University.
Terry Walsh
SVP Global Operations
Beckman Coulter
Natalia Méndez DeBriones, leads the medical devices manufacturing cluster for Philips. In her current role she is responsible for leading 13 manufacturing plants, located across the world. She has been in Medical Devices manufacturing for the past 16 years and has experience in different roles: Quality, Product Design, Plastic Molding & Extrusion, and is passionate about Lean, Six Sigma, and Continuous Improvement.
During her career, she has been able to transform and optimize manufacturing processes to better support customer needs and increase value brought to the company. She enjoys working with interdisciplinary teams and finding new ways to achieve goals, while creating development opportunities for her team and others.
Through commitment, empowerment, and improving skills, not only for herself, but for her team, she has been able to triple productivity under high regulated environments, lead teams through challenging regulatory situations, and influence deep cultural shifts that have yielded on improved customer satisfaction and optimized cost of operations. She has led her teams through Manufacturing Excellence Competitions, being awarded repeatedly on several categories in some of her factories.
Natalia is native from Costa Rica, where she lives with her husband. She loves art, reading, and cooking. She gets her energy from working with others and learning from different backgrounds.
Natalia Mendez
VP of Operations - Ultrasound ISC Leader
Philips
David Kunz was appointed Senior Vice President, Global Quality and Regulatory Affairs in May 2017. He is responsible for providing strategic and operational direction to achieve Quality and Regulatory Excellence across the organization and he chairs the Company’s Quality Excellence Steering Committee. Mr. Kunz joined the Company (then Zimmer) in 2011 as Vice President, Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance for the Spine division. He was appointed Senior Vice President, Global Quality, Clinical and Regulatory Affairs in April 2016. Prior to joining Zimmer, he served as Vice President, Quality Assurance of Ecolab, where he led a supply chain network including nine chemical plants and two equipment plants. Previously, he spent 13 years at Guidant/Boston Scientific Corporation in a variety of leadership positions, most recently as the Director of Supplier Quality Assurance for the CRV Division. He began his career at the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program Headquarters as a mechanical engineer. Mr. Kunz holds a Bachelor of Science and an MBA from the University of Minnesota. He is a certified Nuclear Engineer and previously was a certified Licensed Professional Mechanical Engineer.
David Kunz
Senior Vice President, Global Quality & Regulatory Affairs
Zimmer Biomet
Mark Mews leads the operations and supply chain for the Peripheral Business Group and has been at W.L. Gore and Associates, Inc. for over 16 years spending a majority of that time leading cross-functionally in various operations & supply chain leadership roles across both new product development and commercial life cycles. Mark is an advocate for continuous improvement, creating a lean culture, and focusing teams and organizations on delivering targets that improve both top and bottom-line growth.
Mark Mews
Vice President, Global Supply Chain & Operations Leader
W. L. Gore & Associates
Director of Quality, Contracted Services, Nissha Medical Technologies
Plant Manager – Alajuela Costa Rica, Philips
Vice President of Innovation, MicroAire Surgical Instruments
Sr. Manager Quality Relations, Olympus
Director of Operations, Nectero Medical
Sr. Director, THV Global Operations, Jenavalve