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Kelvyn H. Cullimore, Jr.
President and CEO of BioUtah
Kelvyn H. Cullimore, Jr.
President and CEO of BioUtah
Kelvyn H. Cullimore Jr. was named president and CEO of BioUtah, the state trade association for life science companies in Utah, in October 2018. He is a member of the board or on the advisory board for the World Trade Center Utah, the Center for Medical Innovation at the University of Utah, BYU’s Life Sciences Leadership Council, and the College of Science, Engineering and Technology at Utah Tech University. From 1992 to 2018, Cullimore was the president and CEO of Dynatronics Corporation, a leading manufacturer of physical therapy devices and products. Dynatronics was a publicly traded company originally founded by Cullimore and his father in 1979. He also served on the board of the Medical Device Manufacturers Association from 2003 to 2016. Cullimore was elected the first Mayor of Cottonwood Heights, UT, in November 2004 and served in that capacity until January 2018. He graduated cum laude from Brigham Young University in 1980 with a degree in Financial and Estate Planning.
Sara E. Dyson
Senior Vice President of Underwriting & Risk Management for Medmarc
Sara E. Dyson
Senior Vice President of Underwriting & Risk Management for Medmarc
Sara Dyson, Esq., MPH CPCU, is the senior vice president of Underwriting & Risk Management for Medmarc, a specialty insurance carrier that provides products liability insurance to the life sciences industry. Dyson oversees Medmarc’s underwriting unit, including its strategy and operations, as well as the company’s risk management team, which advises life sciences companies on products liability risk mitigation and assists with related specialty areas, such as FDA compliance, post-market surveillance, product safety, and recalls. She is the author of numerous articles on products liability risk management that have appeared in industry media outlets, such as Medtech Intelligence and Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry (MDDI) magazines. In 2017, Dyson joined the Editorial Advisory Board of Medical Product Outsourcing (MPO) magazine. She earned her certification as a Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) in 2018 and is a member of the CPCU Society. Dyson received her law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School and is a member of the Wisconsin and Virginia Bar Associations. She holds a Master of Public Health (MPH) from the University of Missouri’s College of Health Sciences. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan.
Anthony S. Freeman
President of A.S. Freeman Advisors LLC
Anthony S. Freeman
President of A.S. Freeman Advisors LLC
Tony Freeman leads A. S. Freeman Advisors, a transaction advisory firm focused on the precision manufacturing and specialty materials industries. With a focus on supply chain companies, Freeman Advisors offers buy-side and sell-side services as well as strategic consulting on market selection and value enhancement. Clients range from Fortune 500 firms to small, privately held companies in the life sciences, aerospace, electronics, and specialty chemical industries. Freeman also serves as executive director of mdmX, an industry organization for medical supply chain executives. He is a regular contributor to MPO and other industry publications. He holds a BA from the University of Chicago and an MBA from Columbia University.
Clayton Hall
EVP for Government Affairs at MDMA
Clayton Hall
EVP for Government Affairs at MDMA
Prior to joining MDMA, Clayton Hall spent 12 years working on Capitol Hill and served as chief of staff to three Members of the U.S. House of Representatives: former Congressmen Jim McCrery (LA) and Anh "Joseph" Cao (LA), and Congressman Tim Griffin (AR). McCrery and Griffin both served on the powerful Ways and Means Committee, the chief tax-writing committee in the House, which has significant jurisdiction over federal healthcare policy. Hall managed a diverse portfolio of political and policy issues while he was on the Hill, playing a major role in drafting numerous pieces of legislation, including legislation to reform the federal regulatory regime and Medicare payment policies. Hall received a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from Washington and Lee University in Virginia.
Jeff Kenitz
Vice President of Global Supply Chain & Operations at KARDION
Jeff Kenitz
Vice President of Global Supply Chain & Operations at KARDION
Jeff Kenitz is a senior medtech operations and supply chain executive with extensive experience leading global supply chain, manufacturing, sourcing, and commercialization initiatives across the medical device industry. His career includes leadership roles at Stryker and serving as chief operating officer of Exalta, formerly Tyber Medical. Today, Jeff leads supply chain operations for an innovative cardiac medical technology company, where he focuses on building resilient, scalable, and highly technical supply chains that support growth, quality, and patient outcomes. He brings a practical perspective on outsourcing strategy, supplier consolidation, and the evolving role of partners across the medical device ecosystem.
Paul Melnychuck
Chief Commercial Officer at Clayens
Paul Melnychuck
Chief Commercial Officer at Clayens
Paul Melnychuck is a global operating executive and strategic advisor with four decades of leadership across contract manufacturing, medical devices, data center infrastructure, and technology. He currently serves as chief commercial officer at Clayens, a $720M leading thermoset composite manufacturing partner backed by One Equity Partners, where he leads revenue growth strategy across 28 plants in 9 countries. Prior to Clayens, Melnychuck was SVP and general manager at Spectrum Plastics Group, a DuPont business, overseeing a $300M P&L and 1,650 employees across global CDMO operations serving the world’s leading medical device OEMs. His career spans executive roles at Philips Electronics, Eastman Kodak, and several venture-backed technology startups, including a pioneering digital music platform and one of the nation’s top-ranked charter school networks. Melnychuck holds advanced degrees in Electrical Engineering and Imaging Science from RIT and NTU, completed graduate programs at Harvard Business School and Harvard Medical School, and is the holder of eight U.S. patents. He has been recognized as RIT Alumnus of the Year, College of Science.
Marie O’Malley
Chief Commercial Officer at PiSA USA
Marie O’Malley
Chief Commercial Officer at PiSA USA
Marie O’Malley currently serves as the chief commercial officer for PiSA USA, representing Centerpiece and PiSA—companies that offer world-class contract manufacturing and EtO sterilization processing. O’Malley joined Centerpiece in 2021, where she partners with her experienced and professional colleagues supporting top-tier OEMs along with startup companies for their development, manufacturing and sterilization needs. Prior to joining PiSA USA, O’Malley worked at Medtronic for over 27 years, where she held several executive leadership roles, including leading Global Sourcing for the CardioVascular business and Responsible Supply Management at an enterprise level. O’Malley has deep expertise in supplier relations and contracts and has negotiated complex multi-million-dollar royalty and licensing agreements as well as hundreds of supplier agreements during her time at Medtronic. She managed critical and sometimes challenging supplier relationships during her tenure at Medtronic. She led a Supplier Advisory Board to further develop true partnerships with Medtronic’s trusted supply base. O’Malley has an MBA from Bentley University and an undergraduate Finance degree from Binghamton University. She also earned an Executive MBA certification from Wharton University. She’s also a Certified Management Accountant (CMA) and holds CPIM (Certified in Production and Inventory Management) and CPSD (Certified Professional in Supplier Diversity) credentials.
John Shegda
CEO of KMM Group
John Shegda
CEO of KMM Group
John Shegda has spent nearly four decades in manufacturing, beginning in a small family grinding shop where every machine, every process, and every customer challenge mattered personally. Today, as CEO of KMM Group, that hands-on foundation still shapes his leadership with a focus on solving difficult problems and building an organization where technical and human capability grow together. Under his leadership, KMM evolved from three specialized job shops into a boutique contract manufacturing organization, designed to fill the gap between agile small shops and large multinational CMOs created by years of industry consolidation. Shegda is also active in workforce development, industry mentoring, and regional manufacturing leadership, with a strong belief that great companies are built on purpose as much as process.
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