PRESIDENT

John Redmond is the Founder and President of REDMOND CONSULTING.  John has spent the last 39 years developing successful products and companies.  He spent his early years in sales, marketing, and business development management positions at Johnson & Johnson, American Hospital Supply Corporation and Aesculap. In 1987 he started Redmond NeuroTechnologies Corp., which became one of the premier surgical instrument companies in the United States.  Many of the early instruments and innovations developed at Redmond have become industry standards.  In 1997, he sold Redmond to The NeuroCare Group, which was later acquired by Integra Life Sciences, which sells the Redmond brand.  After leaving Redmond, he became V.P. and General Manager and later President of Gliatech.  Gliatech was a public biotechnology company that developed and sold an anti-adhesion product used in spine surgery.  After leaving Gliatech he spent a year at Biomec, a Cleveland, Ohio incubator company.  In 2002, John got the entreprenerial bug again and started a medical device distribution company, RJR Surgical.  He then partnered with Robert S. Bray, Jr., MD, an innovative spine surgeon, to start R&B Surgical.  R&B developed some unique instruments and a surgical instrument line, which they sold to Integra.  The company name was changed to RSB Spine.  RSB developed an anterior cervical plate implant that was acquired by Nuvasive.  They also developed the InterPlate, which was the first stand-alone cervical implant on the market.  John is still involved in both RSB and RJR Surgical.  He is a graduate of Belmont Abbey College in North Carolina, and resides outside of Cleveland in Garrettsville, Ohio.