Mr. Essig has served as President and Chief Executive Officer and a director of Integra since December 1997. Before joining Integra, Mr. Essig supervised the medical technology practice at Goldman, Sachs & Co. as a managing director. Mr. Essig had ten years of broad health care experience at Goldman Sachs serving as a senior merger and acquisitions advisor to a broad range of domestic and international medical technology, pharmaceutical and biotechnology clients. Mr. Essig received an A.B. degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and an MBA and a Ph.D. degree in Financial Economics from the University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business. Mr. Essig also serves on the Board of Directors of St. Jude Medical Corporation, Zimmer Holdings, Inc., and Advamed, the Advanced Medical Technology Association.
Gerard S. Carlozzi
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Mr. Carlozzi is Integra's Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, responsible for the Company's global marketing, sales, manufacturing, distribution, and R&D functions. Mr. Carlozzi joined Integra in September 2003 having first served as a consultant to the Company from March through September. Mr. Carlozzi had 20 years of high level management experience in the medical device industry prior to joining Integra. He was President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of Bionx Implants, a company focused on the development of novel biomaterial devices for various surgical specialties from 1999 to 2003. Prior to 1999, he held various management positions at Synthes North America, Acufex Microsurgical Inc. and Infusaid Inc. He received a BS degree in engineering and an MBA from Northeastern University. Mr. Carlozzi also serves on the Board of Directors for several privately held companies.
John B. Henneman, III
Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer and Chief Financial Officer
John B. Henneman, III is Integra's Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer and Chief Financial Officer, and is responsible for the law department, regulatory affairs, corporate quality systems, clinical affairs, business development, human resources, information management, and investor relations. Mr. Henneman joined Integra as our General Counsel in 1998 and served in this position until September 2000. Prior to joining Integra, Mr. Henneman served Neuromedical Systems, Inc., a public company developer and manufacturer of in vitro diagnostic equipment, in various capacities for more than four years, including Vice President of Corporate Development, General Counsel, Secretary and interim Co-Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Henneman also practiced law in the Corporate Department of Latham & Watkins (Chicago, Illinois) from 1986 to 1994. Mr. Henneman received his A.B. (Politics) from Princeton University and his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.
Ms. O'Grady has served Integra and its predecessor companies since 1985. Ms. O'Grady has worked in the areas of medical devices and collagen technology for over 20 years. Prior to joining Integra, Ms. O'Grady worked for Colla-Tec, Inc., a Marion Merrell Dow Company. During her career she has held positions with Surgikos, a Johnson & Johnson company, and was on the faculty of Boston University College of Nursing and Medical School. Ms. O'Grady led the team that obtained the FDA approval for INTEGRA¨ Dermal Regeneration Template, the first regenerative product approved by the FDA, and has led teams responsible for more than 500 FDA and international submissions. She received her B.S. degree from Marquette University and M.S.N. in Nursing from Boston University.
Jerry E. Corbin
Vice President, Corporate Controller
Mr. Corbin joined Integra as Corporate Controller in 2006. He is responsible for overseeing the preparation of the financial statements, compliance with SEC and GAAP rules and regulations, financial audits and reviews and planning and executing improvements to the worldwide financial infrastructure of the organization. For more than fifteen years before Integra, Jerry held key finance positions in corporate accounting, sales and marketing and, most recently, research and development for sanofi-aventis and its predecessors. Prior to sanofi, he held management positions with Sigma-Aldrich Corporation and Edward D. Jones & Company. Jerry gained his initial auditing experience with Arthur Andersen & Company. Mr. Corbin holds a BS in Accounting from Illinois State University and is certified as a public accountant.