Jay Johnson

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Biography

Mr. Jay Johnson serves as Business Advisory Board Member at Centerline Biomedical. He has nearly 30 years of experience directing the research, product development, and engineering activities of leading edge medical device companies. Having begun his career designing infusion pumps with start-up Deltec Systems, he eventually led the entire diabetes division, and navigated mergers and acquisitions by Smiths Industries and Pharmacia. Mr. Johnson moved on to serve as Vice President of R&D for Data Sciences International, establishing a strategy that resulted in rapid and predictable delivery of new products to the market, notably an implantable ECG monitoring platform. Most recently, Mr. Johnson built and managed R&D teams as Vice President of R&D for SuperDimension, commercializing a novel electromagnetic navigation platform to diagnose and treat early-stage lung cancer. Mr. Johnson has extensive leadership and engineering experience in the launch of over 30 medical devices with worldwide distribution and holds numerous patents. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree (honors) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota.