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.