Rob Braido

Background

About Rob Braido

Mr. Robert Braido has over 40 years of experience in the medical industry. He is president of Visionary Consulting LLC and has been consulting with medical OEM’s and CMO’s for over 7 years. Mr. Braido’s has a broad breadth of medical industry experience in prototype/product development, global strategic/tactical planning, and technical due-diligence/gap analysis for acquisitions, project management, engineering, and operations. He has had great success working at Ethicon Endo-Surgery a J&J Company, Baxter Healthcare, Teleflex Medical, GW Plastics and The Tech Group with increasing responsibilities to the level of VP of Advanced Technologies. He was a member of the Board of Directors for the Society of Plastic Engineers Medical Division for over 10 years and elected Chairman of the Medical Division twice. Mr. Braido was selected as a member of a Johnson & Johnson Integration Team that took a small medical device company with totally new products, technologies and structure from $75 million to $850 million in 5 years. His career is built on the ability to motivate, lead and coach people in different disciplines throughout the medical industry. The key factor has been driving innovation. Mr. Braido was elected, as the Consortium Chairman for the Government Reinvestment Program with MIT, the National Science Foundation and seven leading Fortune 200 companies to commercialize 3-D Printing and emerging technologies in plastics and metal. He represented J&J as the principal investigator in the development of 3-D Printing with the consortium. He has also been an independent reviewer for the National Science Foundation, J&J, MIT, EdgeOne Medical and others. He has published numerous technical and leadership articles and white papers. In the past he has shared his extensive experiences at seminars, workshops, technical conferences, symposiums and webinars on subjects relating to the medical and plastics/tooling industries.