Rob Braido

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.

Experience

1. President

   Teleflex

   Jan 2008 — Present · Chicago, IL, US

   Technical Due-Diligence and Gap Analysis• Technical due-diligence for mergers & acquisitions for the medical industry• Due-diligence and gap analysis for developing corporate strategic/tactical planning and decision making for R&D, engineering, operations and marketing• Due-diligence for solution based resolution of business and technical issues• Project Management for medical device and equipment (molds, equipment and assembly processes) transfers from OEM\'s to CMOs with full validation• Analyzing gap analysis for development of decision trees• Assessing technical data for medical product/equipment transfers and plant closures • Project Management for technology transfer• Develop Master Validation and Master Project PlansCutting Edge Concept /Prototype Development Business Models For:• Pull through business models for OEM\'s and CMOs to increase profit, growth and product commercialization in the medical industry• Assessing emerging technologies for innovation, concept/prototype development:Product Development and Emerging Technology Assessment:• Independent reviewer for new product concepts/design, manufacturing requirements, specifications and medical technologies • Product Development and design control of medical devices• Life cycle management and compliance• Work with industry leaders, universities and consortiums• Assess breakthrough and emerging technologies from concept through to commercialization for medical OEM\'s and CMO\'s:o Medical devices o Surgical instrumentsCoach, Mentor and Team Builder• Embedded mentor for product development, due-diligence, innovation, concept/prototype/product development and engineering teams• Team building and leadership developmentSeminar/Workshop Instructor:• Case Studies on gap analysis, due-diligence, decision trees, plant transfers with full validations for molding/ tooling/assembly/equipment, compliance and risk analysis • Developing innovation models for different company cultures

Education

• Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management

  Executive Development Program

• Marquette University

  BSEE

  1969 — 1971

Skills

• Product Development
• Injection Molding
• Capital Equipment
• Manufacturing
• Design Control
• Market Development
• R&D
• Medical Devices
• Medical Instuments
• Due-Diligence/Gap Analysis
• Plastics
• Iso 13485
• Leadership
• Gmp
• Vascular
• Strategy
• Capa
• Operating Room
• Design for Manufacturing
• Design of Experiments
• Lean Manufacturing
• Commercialization
• Manufacturing Engineering
• Fmea
• Biomedical Engineering
• Regulatory Affairs
• V&V
• Quality System
• Product Launch
• Root Cause Analysis
• Pharmaceutical Industry
• Fda
• Biotechnology
• Engineering
• Orthopedic
• Minitab
• Six Sigma
• Product Design
• Iso
• Disposables