San Diego, Ca., USA - February 12, 2016, San Diego, Ca., USA - NuVasive, Inc., a medical device company, announced the appointment of Robert F. Friel and Donald J. Rosenberg as independent directors, effective February 12, 2016.
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Mr. Friel will serve as a member of the Board’s Compensation Committee and Mr. Rosenberg will serve as a member of the Board’s Compensation Committee and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.
With more than 35 years of finance and operational experience, Mr. Friel currently serves as Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of PerkinElmer, Inc., and has been one of the primary architects of the company’s transformation into a global technology leader focused on improving the health and safety of people and the environment.
He previously served as President and Chief Operating Officer of PerkinElmer and as Vice Chairman and President of PerkinElmer’s Life and Analytical Sciences unit.
Prior to that, Mr. Friel served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of PerkinElmer with responsibility for business development and information technology in addition to his oversight of finance functions. Previously, he held several senior management positions with AlliedSignal, Inc., now Honeywell International.
Mr. Friel received a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Lafayette College and a Master of Science degree in taxation from Fairleigh Dickinson University.
Mr. Rosenberg possesses extensive expertise in the areas of corporate governance, compliance, law department management, litigation, securities regulation, intellectual property and competition issues, which he developed over a 40-year career at leading Fortune 500 technology companies.
He currently serves as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Qualcomm Incorporated, a 3G, 4G and next-generation wireless technologies company.
Prior to joining Qualcomm, he served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Apple Inc. Prior to that, he was Senior Vice President and General Counsel of IBM Corporation.
Mr. Rosenberg has served as an adjunct professor of law at New York’s Pace University School of Law, where he taught courses in intellectual property and antitrust law. He is the immediate past National Co-Chairman of the Board of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. ■