John has nearly 30 years’ experience in the healthcare sector. John is currently in the Global Government Affairs team having joined Medtronic in 2018 as leader of Regulatory Affairs & Quality and Government Affairs in EMEA. John came to Medtronic with many years’ experience in Brussels on different aspects of European healthcare innovation and legislation policies. John was Secretary General for the European biotech trade association, EuropaBio, was Director of Regulatory Affairs and Industrial policy for nearly ten years, at the European health industry trade association MedTech Europe, and spent five years in the Medical Devices Unit within the European Commission.

Prior to coming to Brussels John worked in, and managed, the Irish Notified Body, NSAI, gaining extensive European and international experience in the design approval of high-risk devices and quality management systems. He sat on the working group which developed the international quality management systems standard for medical devices, ISO 13485. He began his career in the industry with five years’ experience spanning the in vitro diagnostic, pharmaceutical and medical device industries.

John is a science graduate from Dublin, Ireland, with added post-graduate studies in quality control and environmental engineering.