John A. Merhige

John A. Merhige is Chief Commercial Officer at Credence MedSystems. Previously, John was Vice President, Market Development at Sanofi BioSurgery. He joined Sanofi upon its acquisition of Pluromed, Inc, where John was the third employee and member of the executive management team. Pluromed developed and commercialized rapid transition polymers for use in cardiovascular and other surgical procedures.

Previously, John founded Prelude Devices to identify early-stage medical device ventures and gained general management and commercial leadership experience at Ford and Avery Dennison.

John graduated from Dartmouth College with a mechanical engineering degree and returned to Dartmouth for a Masters in Engineering Management from the Thayer School of Engineering and the Tuck School of Business. John is a member of MassMEDIC, MassBio and has served on the board of directors of the MedDev Group (MDG).