Most recently served at Tornier as its Global VP, R&D, from 2006 through 2013. During this time, Tornier grew from approximately $70M to over $300M in annual revenues, meaningfully through organic growth of new products. Rob had prior roles leading R&D at Kinetikos Medical Inc (acquired by Integra Life Sciences), DePuy, and in the automative industry. Rob holds BSME and MSME from Kettering University, and holds over 30 issued or pending patents.

Worked 24 years in the orthopaedic industry serving in various C-level and executive R&D, Marketing and Bus Dev roles at both large corporations and start-ups including Depuy-Synthes, Biomet, DVO, and Genesis Innovation Group. Mr. Running co-founded DVO Extremity Solutions, which was successful sold to Tornier in 2007. Mr. Running has a BSME and MSME from Wright State University and the U of Cincinnati, and 13 issued and pending patents.

Jeff is a 25 year veteran of the orthopedic industry, having served in R&D roles for Zimmer, Depuy, DVO, & Tornier. Jeff is a prolific inventor with over 50 issued or pending patents, and is noted as the lead engineer developing the Global Shoulder line of products for DePuy, the #1 selling shoulder product line in the world, as well as co-founding DVO, which was subsequently sold to Tornier in 2007.