About Us - Board of Directors

Mr. Lukianov serves as Chairman and CEO of NuVasive, a medical device spine company which develops and markets unique minimally disruptive surgery products. Since joining NuVasive as CEO in 1999, he has led the company through venture capital financing, commercialization, initial public offering, public follow-on offering and a convertible debt financing for potential acquisitions. NuVasive has a market capitalization of well over $1 billion. Lukianov has over 25 years of senior management experience in the orthopedic industry and has been associated with building highly-successful companies. He was a founder, chairman and chief executive officer of BackCare Group, which he sold to a Robert Bass company. Lukianov served as a director of the Ilizarov Business Unit of Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics, and was directly responsible for bringing revolutionary limb lengthening and tissue regeneration technology out of Russia and establishing worldwide manufacturing, marketing, and sales. He was also a key manager in a sports medicine joint venture in artificial ligaments between Stryker Corporation and Meadox Medicals. Mr. Lukianov serves on several industry trade boards of California Health Institute (CHI), BIOCOM, and Medical Device Manufacturers Association as well as Volcano Corp., and Opthonix.

Kelvyn Cullimore Jr presently serves as Chairman, President & CEO of Dynatronics Corporation, a publicly traded medical device manufacturer with headquarters in Cottonwood Heights, Utah. Kelvyn has served as a Director and Officer of Dynatronics since it was founded in 1979. Prominent in the physical therapy market, Dynatronics is known for its advanced technology electrotherapy and ultrasound devices, pain management systems and aesthetic products. Dynatronics equipment is used by top therapists and trainers with a majority of professional sports franchises and college teams owning Dynatronics products. In November 2004 he was elected the first Mayor of Cottonwood Heights, Utah, a new city of approximately 40,000 residents after serving for three years on the committee to incorporate the area. In 2003 he joined the board of directors of the Medical Device Manufacturers Association headquartered in Washington, D.C. and currently serves on its executive committee. Kelvyn also serves as a member of the Life Sciences Advisory Board for the Utah Technology Council.