Board of Directors

Prior to being named Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors, Jon Serbousek served Orthofix as Director, President and CEO; he joined Orthofix in 2019. A seasoned executive with more than 30 years’ experience in the medical device and biotech industries, Mr. Serbousek served in several leadership positions at Biomet Inc., including Worldwide President of Biomet Biologics, Worldwide Group President of Orthopedics, and President of U.S. Orthopedics. Prior to joining Biomet, he held various general management positions within Medtronic Inc., including Worldwide Division President − Spine, and Worldwide Vice President and General Manager of Biologics for their Spine and Biologics business. Additionally, Mr. Serbousek spent 13 years with DePuy Orthopedics, a Johnson & Johnson company where he served in numerous roles of increasing responsibility, including Vice President of Marketing and Product Development and Vice President of Spinal Operations. Mr. Serbousek has held numerous board positions at for profit and not-for-profit organizations. He earned his B.S. in Engineering from Washington State University, his M.S. in Bioengineering from the University of Utah, and later completed several advanced management programs including a program at the IMD International School of Management in Lausanne, Switzerland. ​

Keith Valentine was appointed Director, President and CEO following the merger with SeaSpine. Prior to this, Mr. Valentine served as the CEO and President of SeaSpine since 2015. Before joining SeaSpine, he was President and Chief Operating Officer of NuVasive Inc. from 2007 to 2015 and as President of NuVasive from 2004 to 2007. While at NuVasive, Mr. Valentine served in various senior executive roles of increasing responsibility in marketing, development, and operations. Previously, he served as Vice President of Marketing at ORATEC Interventions Inc., a medical device company acquired by Smith & Nephew PLC, and spent eight years in various roles with Medtronic Sofamor Danek, including Vice President of Marketing for the Rods Division and Group Director for the BMP Biologics program, the Interbody Sales Development Effort, and International Sales and Marketing. Mr. Valentine currently serves on the Board of Directors of SI-BONE, Inc., a publicly traded medical device company focused on the treatment of musculoskeletal disorders of the sacro-pelvic anatomy and serves as Chair of its nominating and governance committee. Mr. Valentine received a B.B.A. in Management and Biomedical Sciences from Western Michigan University.

Prior to being named Lead Independent Director of the Board, Catherine Burzik was appointed to the Orthofix Board in 2021 as Chair of the Board. She previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Kinetic Concepts, Inc., a global medical device company, from 2006 until the company’s sale in 2011. Prior to that, Ms. Burzik served as President of Applied Biosystems Group and held senior executive positions at Eastman Kodak and Johnson & Johnson, including Chief Executive Officer and President of Kodak Health Imaging Systems and President of Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, Inc., a Johnson & Johnson company. In 2019, Ms. Burzik received the AdvaMed Lifetime Achievement Award that honors accomplishments of pioneers in the medical technology industry whose contributions have had a significant impact on patients’ lives and the industry as an essential part of America’s economy. Currently Ms. Burzik is a member of the Board of Directors of Becton, Dickinson and Company, where she Chairs the Quality and Regulatory Compliance Committee and serves on the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee. Ms. Burzik is also a member of the Board of Directors of Haemonetics Corporation where she Chairs the Technology Committee and serves on the Audit Committee. Additionally, she serves as Chairman Emeritus of StemBioSys, Inc. and Chairman Emeritus of the American College of Wound Healing and Tissue Repair. Ms. Burzik previously served on the Board of Directors for the San Antonio Branch of the Dallas Federal Reserve Board, Allscripts, Inc., Bausch & Lomb, Cordis Corporation and AdvaMed.

Prior to being named Director, Dr. Essig served as a Director of SeaSpine since June 2015 and as Lead Independent Director since July 2015. Dr. Essig currently serves as Managing Director of Prettybrook Partners LLC, which he cofounded in 2012. He is also currently Chair of the Board of Directors of Integra LifeSciences Holdings Corporation, where he has served as Chair since January 2012, and as a Director since he joined Integra in December 1997. He was Integra’s Chief Executive Officer from 1997 until 2012. Before joining Integra, Dr. Essig was Managing Director of the medical technology practice at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Dr. Essig had 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. Dr. Essig has chaired audit, compensation, finance and nominating and governance committees, served as lead director, and participated in CEO succession processes on the boards of numerous public companies, ranging in size from several hundred million dollars to over $30 billion in levered market capitalization. Dr. Essig currently serves on the Board of Directors of Idexx Laboratories, Availity, Mission Bio and Breg, Inc. He is a Venture Partner at Wellington Partners Advisory AG, a venture capital firm. He also serves as a Senior Advisor to TowerBrook Capital Partners. He serves on the Leadership Counsel of the Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Dr. Essig previously served on the Board of St. Jude Medical Corporation from 1999 to 2017, prior to its sale to Abbott Corporation. From 2013 until August 2019, he served on the Board of Directors of Owens and Minor, Inc.; from March 2005 until August 2008, he served on the Board of Directors of Zimmer Holdings, Inc.; and from 1998 to 2002, he served on the Board of Directors of Vital Signs, Inc. Dr. Essig has also served on the Executive Committee, Nominating and Governance Committee and as Treasurer of AdvaMed, the Advanced Medical Technology Association. Dr. Essig is also involved in several nonprofit charitable organizations, including serving on their boards. Dr. Essig received an A.B. degree and graduated with magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa honors from the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Dr. Essig completed his M.B.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Financial Economics from the University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business.

Jason Hannon joined the Orthofix Board of Directors in June 2020. A seasoned medical device executive, he currently serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Mainstay Medical International plc, a global company headquartered in Ireland that has developed and commercialized the first restorative neurostimulation treatment for chronic back pain. Mr. Hannon has also served as President and Chief Operating Officer of NuVasive, Inc. Over the course of 12 years at NuVasive, he held various roles, including Executive Vice President, International; Executive Vice President, Corporate Development; and General Counsel. Mr. Hannon has a J.D. degree from Stanford University Law School and a B.A. degree from the University of California, Berkeley.

Prior to being named Director, Mr. Henneman served as a Director of SeaSpine since July 2015. Mr. Henneman has more than 25 years of combined financial and operational management experience in the life sciences industry. Mr. Henneman served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of NewLink Genetics Corporation from October 2014 to July 2018, and as its Chief Administrative Officer from July 2018 to November 2018. Prior to joining NewLink Genetics, Mr. Henneman served at Integra LifeSciences Holdings in various capacities between 1998 and 2014. Before becoming Integra's Chief Financial Officer in 2007, Mr. Henneman served Integra as General Counsel and Chief Administrative Officer, responsible at various times for Integra's business development, regulatory affairs, quality systems, clinical affairs, human resources, information systems, and legal affairs functions and the management of Integra's surgical instruments business. Mr. Henneman also serves on the Board of Directors of R1 RCM, Inc., a public company providing revenue cycle management services to hospitals and physicians; Aprea Therapeutics, Inc., a public biotechnology company; Anika Therapeutics, Inc., a public medical device company focused on joint preservation and health; and Alafair Biosciences, Inc., a privately held medical device company. Mr. Henneman received an A.B. in Politics from Princeton University and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.

James Hinrichs was appointed to the Orthofix Board in April 2014. Mr. Hinrichs is currently Co-Founder of Atmas Health. From 2018 to 2019, he served as Chief Financial Officer of Cibus, a privately held agricultural biotech company. Prior to this, Mr. Hinrichs served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Alere Inc, a publicly traded diagnostic company, preceding its sale to Abbott Labs. From December 2010 through March 2015, he served as Chief Financial Officer of CareFusion Corporation, prior to its sale to Becton Dickinson. Mr. Hinrichs previously served as CareFusion's Senior Vice President, Global Customer Support, and as its Senior Vice President, Controller. Prior to joining CareFusion when it was spun off from Cardinal Health, Inc., he worked at Cardinal Health in various positions including Executive Vice President and Corporate Controller of Cardinal Health, and as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of its Healthcare Supply Chain Services segment. Mr. Hinrichs joined Cardinal Health following more than a decade of finance and marketing roles at Merck & Co. He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in business from Carnegie Mellon University. Mr. Hinrichs serves as a director of Integer Holdings Corporation and Outset Medical. He also serves as a director of several privately held companies.

Prior to being named Director, Ms. Maniar served as a Director of SeaSpine since April 2021. Since July 2018, Ms. Maniar has served as Global Leader, Healthcare and Life Sciences Solutions and Strategy, Google Cloud, a multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, where she leads vision, strategy, and execution of Google Cloud’s industry strategy and go-to-market model. Prior to joining Google, from November 2013 to June 2018, Ms. Maniar worked in various capacities at Genentech, where she led market growth strategies relevant to technology accelerators for therapies and diagnostics. Before Genentech, from February 2012 to July 2013, Ms. Maniar served as Director for the Center of Minimally Invasive Therapeutics at Summa Health. Ms. Maniar currently serves on the Board of Directors of RxSight and on the Scientific Advisory Board of The Allen Institute. Earlier in her career, Ms. Maniar spent several years working in a research capacity at the Cleveland Clinic and the Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron where she was primarily focused on medical devices and minimally invasive therapeutics. Ms. Maniar received a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, San Diego.

Mike Paolucci was named to the Orthofix Board of Directors and appointed to the Compensation Committee in March 2016. A seasoned Human Resource (HR) executive, he has more than 20 years of global experience working directly with Boards of Directors and C-level executives to improve organizational capabilities and HR programs that result in sustained improvements in business performance. Mr. Paolucci currently serves as the Executive Vice President, Chief People Officer for Mirati Therapeutics, a commercial stage oncology biotech company focused on finding and delivering meaningful targeted oncology solutions for genetic and immunological drivers of cancer. From 2021 until March of 2022, Mr. Paolucci served as Executive Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer for Arena Pharmaceuticals until its acquisition by Pfizer. Prior to that, Mr. Paolucci served as Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer for Halozyme Therapeutics Inc., a late-stage oncology and biopharmaceutical company. Prior to Halozyme, Mr. Paolucci served as Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resource Officer for CareFusion. Additionally, Mr. Paolucci served as Executive Vice President of Human Resources at NuVasive and spent five years at Life Technologies. Previously, he was head of Human Resources for the services division of Hewlett Packard and served in several leadership roles with EDS, which was acquired by Hewlett Packard. Prior to HP/EDS, Mr. Paolucci was a partner with the HR consulting firm Towers Perrin. Mr. Paolucci is a graduate of The Ohio State University.