CONTACT US REGIONAL SITES NEWS & EVENTS WEBSTORE CAREERS LOG IN / CREATE PROFILE INQUIRY BUILDER [0] BROCHURE BUILDER [0] PRODUCTS AREA OF CARE BRANDS RESOURCE CENTER COMPANY INFORMATION CUSTOMER SUPPORT Company Information > About Smiths Medical > Our Executive Team Our Executive Team ABOUT SMITHS MEDICAL Our Executive Team Registered Offices History of Smiths Medical History of Smiths Group NEWS AND EVENTS EDUCATION Distance Learning Instructor-Led Online Training Portal TV Channels SPECIALITY AREAS Clinical Research Business Unit Military OEM Industrial Products Veterinary Products CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY HIPAA WEEE Compliance The worldwide management team, led by President and CEO Jeff McCaulley, is primarily located in St.Paul, Minnesota, USA. Explore individual members bios and find their contact information below. Jeffery A. McCaulley President & CEO, Smiths Medical Jeff serves as President & CEO of Smiths Medical, a £850M ($1.4B) division of Smiths Group, plc. He joined the organization in 2014. Jeff is an experienced senior executive with more than 25 years in the healthcare industry, including medical devices, diagnostics, services, and healthcare informatics. Before joining Smiths Medical, Jeff served as President of the Global Reconstructive Division at Zimmer, where he oversaw five global business units and numerous functions. He held previous roles as President & CEO of the Health Division of Wolters Kluwer and Vice President & General Manager of the Global Diabetes Business Unit at Medtronic. Jeff began his career at GE Healthcare. During his 13 years at GE, he held progressively more senior roles, last serving as President & CEO of GE Clinical Services. Jeff also serves on the Boards of the Medical Device Manufacturers Association, the Joint Replacement Hospitals of America, Avidyne Corporation, American Red Cross Northern Minnesota Region, and the Advisory Board of the University of Cincinnati College of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Jeff graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, and received an Executive MBA from the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Carl Stamp Vice President, Global Product Management Carl Stamp joined Smiths Medical in April 2015. Prior to Smiths, he held numerous executive level positions at Medtronic during a twelve-year tenure, including leadership roles in Marketing, Operations, R&D, and General Management. Prior to Medtronic, Carl spent over fifteen years with Wright Medical Technology in R&D, Sales Management, Marketing, and Business Development roles. As the VP of Marketing, he led the worldwide marketing efforts for all product segments, including large joint reconstruction, upper and lower extremities, and biologics, culminating in the company’s IPO in 2001. Carl’s deep medical device industry experience and diverse functional knowledge provides exceptional foundation for leading the company’s product portfolio, as well as building alignment across all functional areas. Carl hold a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Iowa. Adam Jones Divisional General Counsel Adam Jones leads the global legal services function for Smiths Medical. His responsibilities include oversight of commercial contracting activities, litigation and dispute management, intellectual property management, the management of the property portfolio and other areas of risk management. Adam’s team is also responsible for managing key compliance programs. He joined the Smiths organization in 1998. Adam has held several in-house counsel roles, both within Smiths Medical as well as with Smiths Group corporate legal team. Prior to his current role, he re-qualified as a U.S. attorney and relocated to St. Paul, Minnesota, as General Counsel, Smiths Medical North America in 2004. Adam started his career in private practice in London focusing on M&A and commercial transactions for Macfarlanes and Cordiant plc. Adam holds a LLB Law, University of West of England and an MBA from Henley Management College. He is a Solicitor of England & Wales and a member of the New York Bar. Jeffrey Brown Vice President, Global Sales & Marketing Jeff leads the global Sales & Marketing function for Smiths Medical. He has more than 35 years of successful global experience leading, developing and motivating highly effective executive management teams, developing innovative marketing and sales strategies as well as building strong customer partnerships. He has guided organizations through major change initiatives such as mergers, acquisitions and ERP implementations. Jeff joined Smiths Medical in 2012, as Vice President, Sales & Marketing, Americas, and has been in his current role since 2015. Prior to Smiths Medical, Jeff held progressively more senior sales & marketing roles within Teleflex and Hudson Respiratory Care, where he grew sales revenues year over year, launched businesses into new markets and maximized operating profits on a global scale. Jeff holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Marketing from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. Ben Sommerness Vice President, Global Strategy and Transformation Ben Sommerness leads the Global Strategy and Transformation function for Smiths Medical. His background includes extensive strategy, marketing, business development and change management experience. He joined the organization in 2010. Prior to Smiths Medical, Ben was a Principal at the Boston Consulting Group (Chicago, London and Minneapolis offices), where he led strategic consulting engagements to identify and implement value creation opportunities for many Fortune 500 companies. Following BCG, he was the President of Talmadge Consulting, an independent management consulting company. Ben served in the U.S. Army for six years in U.S. and abroad, achieving the rank of Captain. Following various line unit leadership roles, Ben managed the Army Medical Department’s strategic infrastructure development program. Ben holds a BE in Civil Engineering from the United States Military Academy, and received an MBA in Finance from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Bob Armstrong Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Bob leads all Research & Development programs for Smiths Medical. His focus is to enhance innovation and accelerate the commercializing of differentiated products and platforms. He joined the organization in 2014. Prior to joining Smiths Medical, Bob served as Vice President, Innovation Excellence Transformation at Philips Healthcare, a $12.4 billion division of the Dutch conglomerate. In that role, he had responsibility for creating and implementing the product development process and competency improvements for all product development in Philips Healthcare globally. Prior to Philips, he served as Vice President of R&D for all Medical Devices and Adjacent Disposables for Baxter Healthcare. Bob began his career as an engineer in GE Healthcare and assumed roles of increasing responsibility over 21 years, last serving as General Manager of Global Computed Tomography and Functional Imaging Engineering. Bob holds a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from St. Norbert College and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, as well as a number of patents. Lu Anne Green Vice President of Global Operations Lu Anne Green leads world-wide operations, supply chain, logistics and sourcing functions for Smiths Medical. Her focus is on optimizing the company’s operational footprint, driving improved supply chain management and continuing a highly effective value engineering program. She joined the organization in 2013. Prior to joining Smiths Medical, Lu Anne served as Vice President, Supply Management for Assa Abloy, a $1.6 billion division of a Swedish conglomerate. In that role, she was responsible for creating and implementing the supply chain structure across 26 sites in North and South America. Before that, she held senior leadership roles in operations and supply chain management at Lutron Electronics, Ikon Office Solutions, Pitney Bowes and Compaq. Her responsibilities included global manufacturing, process and value engineering, materials, procurement, and large-scale organization transformation. Lu Anne holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from Worchester Polytechnic Institute and a Masters of Business Administration from Western New England College. Ron Leonhardt Vice President, Global HR and EHS Ron Leonhardt leads the Global Human Resources and Environmental Health & Safety functions for Smiths Medical. He brings a background of more than 18 years of HR experience focused on optimizing the management of human capital for global organizations. He joined the organization in 2009. Prior joining Smiths Medical, Ron held several leadership positions during his nine years with Target Corporation. He served as Group Manager for stores compensation and Director of International HR. Ron also spent a year in Shanghai, China establishing the HR organization to support business growth plans and helped build Target’s Business Process Outsourcing Center in Bangalore, India. Ron began his professional career as a consultant with Arthur Andersen’s Business Consulting Group and then with the Strategic Human Capital Consulting Group at Deloitte & Touche. He was also the lead HR consultant for the Japan Business Organization practice in both firms. Ron holds a BA in International Economics from Georgetown University and a Master’s in International Business from Columbia University. He currently serves on the board of the Human Resources Executive Forum’s Minnesota Chapter and the Japan America Society of Minnesota. Michael Armstrong Vice President, Global Regulatory Affairs & Quality Assurance Michael Armstrong leads Smiths Medical’s Global Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance (RAQA) function. His focus is to drive transformation through increased accountability, improved productivity and accelerated execution while maintaining robust product and quality systems performance. He joined the organization in September 2015. Michael has extensive experience within the medical device industry in a wide variety of fields such as cardiac, vascular, neurological and general surgery, interventional cardiology, cardiac rhythm management, neuromodulation, and orthopaedics. Prior to Smiths, Michael served as Vice President of Global Quality, at Greatbatch, Inc. where he built a robust quality infrastructure that successfully transformed independent facilities into an integrated group of quality systems. He additionally deployed a business process harmonization strategy to improve business performance, increase productivity and align core business processes across multinational locations. Prior to Greatbach, Michael spent a number of years at Medtronic's Cardiovascular and Spine divisions in progressively more senior Quality roles. While at Medtronic Cardiovascular, Michael was responsible for all aspects of Quality development activities from initial research and development through product launch, including pharmaceutical testing requirements, compliance, and initial product failure investigation. Earlier in his career Michael held various leadership roles in Quality at Northstar Neuroscience and Guidant Cardiac and Vascular Surgery. Michael holds a Master of Bioengineering from the University of Washington, and a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota. George Montague CFO & Vice President, Global Finance George Montague joined Smiths Medical in September 2015, and serves as the company’s CFO and VP of Finance. Prior to Smiths he was Senior Vice President, Sales and Service Finance for Cisco Systems where he provided financial leadership and oversaw Finance functions for the global sales organization, Services business and captive-finance company. Prior to Cisco, George spent 11 years with Medtronic, where he served in different management roles of increasing responsibility, including as group CFO directing finance, strategy and business development activities of a global operating group that included Medtronic’s Spine, Neuromodulation, Diabetes, Surgical Technologies and Kanghui business units. Earlier in his career George spent time building foundational expertise in strategic and financial planning, business development, IT systems analysis, treasury, audit, tax, and controllership with Hughes Electronics, Black & Decker, Apple and KPMG in progressively senior roles. George received a Bachelor of Science in business administration from the University of California at Berkeley, and a master of business administration from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a chartered financial analyst and certified public accountant. Jeff Wagaman Executive CIO and Vice President Enterprise Solutions Jeff joined Smiths Medical in September 2015, and leads the business information systems (BIS) team for the organization. Jeff has oversight of the BIS project management office (PMO), project managers, and strategic solutions teams. Jeff is also responsible for evolving and leading the digital and innovation agendas for the BIS team. Prior to Smiths Jeff was with 3M where served as director of the enterprise resource planning center of excellence with responsibility over a multi-year IT business transformation program. Prior to 3M Jeff was the Vice President of IT for the Select Comfort Corporation, and spent his early career at companies including: IBM, Maytag Corporation, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and GE. Jeff holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Ball State University, Indiana. 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