PETER
Chief Executive Officer
Peter Caldini joined the Company as the President in August 2024. Prior to joining, Peter worked as a consultant with the Company’s leadership team to identify efficiencies and cost savings. Before that, Peter was the Chief Executive Officer at Acreage Holdings, Inc., a publicly traded company, from December 2020 to June 2023. Prior to that, he was the Chief Executive Officer and a director at Bespoke Capital Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition corporation, from June 2019 until December 2020. Prior to that, he held positions of increasing responsibility at Pfizer, Inc., including Regional President North America for Pfizer Consumer Healthcare from 2017 to 2019; Regional President EMEA of Pfizer Consumer Healthcare from 2016 to 2017, and leader of the Northern European cluster from 2015 to 2016. From 2009 to 2014, Peter held roles of increasing responsibility at Bayer Consumer Healthcare, including leading the Global Nutritionals Strategic Business Unit and running a sub-region of emerging markets in EMEA. And from 2002 to 2009, he held roles of increasing responsibility at Wyeth Consumer Healthcare in the US and Internationally. Peter received a Masters of International Economics and Management from Bocconi University in Milan, Italy, an MBA from Northeastern University and a BA, Political Science from Boston University.
ROSS
Ross Mansbach joined the company in August 2022 as the General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer. He was previously at Avanos Medical, Inc., a publicly traded medical device company, where he held positions including Senior Vice President, Interim General Counsel and Corporate Secretary and Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, between November 2014 and March 2022. Prior to that, Mr. Mansbach held positions of increasing responsibility in the Legal Department at Kimberly-Clark Corporation for more than ten years. Earlier in his career, Mr. Mansbach was a partner at the law firm of Powell Goldstein Frazer & Murphy, now known as Bryan Cave. He was also a judicial clerk for a United States District Court judge for the Northern District of Illinois. Mr. Mansbach received his B.A from Yale College and his J.D. from The University of Chicago.
JEFF
SVP & General Manager – North America
Mr. Ehrhardt joined the Establishment Labs leadership team in April of 2024 after a distinguished career in Plastic Surgery and Dermatology in the U.S. market. He was most recently VP and General Manager of the U.S. Plastic Surgery and Regenerative Medicine business unit for Allergan Aesthetics, an Abbvie company. In his 26 plus years at Allergan he held various senior leadership roles such as VP U.S. Commercial Operations, VP of Sales Plastic Surgery & Regenerative Medicine and VP of Sales and Marketing, U.S. Dermatology. Notably, he was head of Dermatology Sales for the launch of Botox Cosmetic, acquisition and merger of Lifecell into the U.S. Plastic Surgery organization, acquisition and launch of Aczone®, an acne product, and the launch of the Inspira® line of breast implants. In his role at Establishment Labs, he will be responsible for the commercialization of the Motiva® Femtech line of breast aesthetics devices in both the U.S. and Canada. He holds undergraduate degrees in Finance and Marketing from the University of Cincinnati and an M.B.A. from Xavier University.
PAUL
Chief Operating Officer
Paul is a seasoned Operations Executive with over 30 years of global experience across supply chain, manufacturing and operations within Med Device, Consumer Packaged Goods, and Industrial industries.
Paul joined Establishment Labs on December 1, 2022 from Cardinal Health, where he led the Medical Segment’s Global supply chain planning, procurement, deployment, service and repair, medical device reprocessing operations, and key account CPFR as Senior Vice President Global Planning and Operations. Prior to that, he was Vice President Supply Chain, Contract Manufacturing for Medtronic and Covidien. Earlier in his career, he held positions of increasing responsibility at Newell Rubbermaid, Evenflo, Arthur Anderson LLP, and Swagelok.
ROSALYN
SVP, Global Clinical, Medical & US Regulatory Affairs
SALVADOR
Head of Special Projects
Mr. Dada was one of the founding members of the company back in 2004. Salvador initially led the implementation of Establishment Labs® operations in Costa Rica and the successful certification of the Motiva Implants® product family by the European Union and other high vigilance countries.
In February 2016 he was appointed as our Chief Operating Officer where he led the expansion of the operations to Brazil, Belgium, and in recent years, to several other European countries where direct commercial operations were launched. Due to health issues, he resigned from his position as COO and now serves as Head of Special Projects. Mr. Dada served in various engineering roles at Allergan Medical from 2007 to 2009 and in a variety of production and manufacturing roles at Establishment Biotech, S.A. from 2004 to 2006.
He has an undergraduate and licentiate degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Costa Rica.
ROBERTO
Chief Technology Officer
Since 2009, Roberto has risen through several positions in our company, in the areas of quality management, research, regulatory and clinical affairs, and has been our CTO heading Research, Development, and Innovation since January 2018.
Roberto has led several impactful research projects that have been key to the science-based design of our FemTech technologies, and has authored peer-reviewed publications. From 2006 to 2009, served in various engineering and quality manager positions with Allergan Medical Costa Rica.
He has a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Universidad Interamericana de Costa Rica and a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Environmental Health and Safety Engineering from Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica.
Chief Financial Officer
RAJ
Raj has been part of Establishment Labs® since February 2021. Before his current role as Chief Financial Officer, he served as the company’s Head of Strategy and Investor Relations. Raj joined the company from Jefferies Group, LLC where he was a Managing Director and led the U.S. medical device research team for eleven years, including coverage of Establishment Labs®.
He covered the medical device industry as an equity research analyst for over twenty years. Raj has an impressive academic portfolio, including a bachelor’s degree in biology from UC Berkeley, a master’s degree in Physiology from Georgetown University, and an MBA from Cornell University.
IVAN
Senior Vice President of Commercial Operations – OUS
Mr. Bilic has been part of Establishment Labs since April 8, 2019, and is dedicated to advancing women’s health through innovative technology. His career highlights include roles as senior commercial director for European distribution markets, vice president for EMEA, and his current position as senior vice president for OUS. Notable accomplishments include restructuring the commercial function and transforming the German market. In his current role, Mr. Bilic strategically leads Establishment Labs’ commercial efforts, overseeing both the channel and direct markets and shaping B2B and B2B2C strategies for market leadership. He represents Establishment Labs in the non-U.S. plastic surgery market and drives innovative marketing approaches globally. Prior to joining Establishment Labs, he held key positions at Polytech and Allergan and holds a Master of Business Administration from Hult International Business School.
ROBERT
PhD
Robert Langer is an Institute Professor at MIT (there are 13 Institute Professors at MIT; an Institute Professor is the highest honour awarded to a faculty member). His h-index of 232 is the highest of any engineer in history. He has over 1,130 issued and pending patents which have been licensed or sublicensed to over 300 companies. He served as Chair of the FDA’s SCIENCE BOARD (highest advisory board) from 1999-2002. Langer is one of a very few individuals elected to the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Inventors. He is one of four living individuals to receive both the US National Medal of Science and the US National Medal of Technology and Innovation. In 2015, Dr Langer received the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. He has also received the Draper Prize (considered the engineering Nobel Prize), Albany Medical Center Prize, Wolf Prize for Chemistry, Millennium Technology Prize, Priestley Medal (highest award of the American Chemical Society), Gairdner Prize, Kyoto Prize and the Lemelson-MIT Prize, for being “one of history’s most prolific inventors in medicine”. He holds 29 honorary doctorates including honorary degrees from Harvard and Yale.
PROF. MICHAEL
MD & PhD
Prof. Michael Atlan MD, Ph.D. is currently the chief of the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Department at TENON Hospital and a Professor at the Sorbonne Medecine Universite.
His main interests are Aesthetic Breast Surgery, breast reconstruction with ADM, Free Flaps for breast reconstruction, and Breast Cosmetic Surgery (anatomic implants, Fat Grafting). His areas of expertise include breast implant surface, the evaluation of new devices in plastic surgery, and Facial Aesthetic Surgery.
He is one of the founders of the CAMPUS CHAMPS ELYSEES.
ARDESHIR
Prof. Ardeshir Bayat is Director of the Medical Research Council Wound Healing Unit and professor at the University of Cape Town, Cape Town in South Africa. He is considered an expert in wound healing, cutaneous repair and skin scarring, with internationally recognised expertise in implant surface technology, fibrosis and capsular contracture. He trained as a surgeon-scientist with a PhD in molecular genetics of fibrosis. He has published extensively in peer-reviewed scientific literature (in excess of 500 articles to date). He is regularly an invited speaker at both national and international tissue repair conferences (over 600 conferences to date) and serves on the editorial boards of several journals.
His team have created and patented novel biomimetic surfaces and continue to work on developing models to understand the process of cell surface interaction/capsular fibrosis and its modulation related to implant surfaces. His investigative work has enabled translation of basic science to therapeutic developments of direct relevance to both cosmetic patients and industry.
BRIAN
MD & Eng
Dr. Brian M. Kinney is a Clinical Associate Professor of Plastic Surgery at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and a reputable board certified plastic surgeon. Dr. Kinney has served as President of the Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation of the US (PSEF), Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), Deputy Secretary General of the International Confederation of Aesthetic, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (IPRAS), Board member of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS), part of the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (ISAPS), Co-Founder and Board of directors of the International Society of Plastic Regenerative Surgery (ISPRES), as well as chairman and Medical Director of Thermi. Dr. Kinney has one of the top plastic surgery practices in southern California for over twenty-five years and is also a staff member of many major hospitals in West Los Angeles, such as St. John’s Hospital and Health Center and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Kinney earned his bachelor’s degree (Biomedical/Mechanical Engineering) and master’s degree (Mechanical/Electrical Engineering) after completing the Harvard/MIT Health Sciences and Technology program. He then attended medical school at Tulane University and trained in general surgery and plastic surgery at UCLA in Los Angeles, CA, USA.
ARIKHA
Arikha is an experienced medical device executive and entrepreneur, whose companies developed products that have been implanted in millions of patients worldwide. She was the founder and CEO of Galatea Surgical (now owned by Becton Dickinson), guiding the company from inception, through clinical studies and the commercial release of GalaFLEX© for soft tissue reinforcement. She was also the founder and CSO of TyRx (now Medtronic Infection Control), which commercialized antibiotic eluting products for the prevention of infection associated with indwelling devices. Over more than 20 years in the industry, Arikha has cultivated deep expertise in resorbable surgical products and the development of solutions to complications associated with implantable devices. Arikha is currently an investor and board member of several privately held medical companies and nonprofit organizations. She has a PhD in Chemistry from Yale and a BA in Chemistry from Brandeis University.
DR MARCOS
MD
Prof Marcos Sforza, MD Marcos Sforza is one of the most renowned lecturers and researchers in the realm of Plastic Surgery. He is a Senior Professor of Plastic Surgery and regenerative medicine at the SESA University, Brazil, a Professor of Cosmetic Surgery UNIFESO School of Medicine, responsible for the Elective internship in Cosmetic Surgery in the UK and a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Prof Sforza is a registered member of the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery–ISAPS, the Brazilian Society of Plastic Surgery, the American Society of Plastic Surgery and the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. He has more than 100 peer-reviewed published papers and lectures all around the world as the world’s leading authority in Nanosurfaced silicone breast implants. He is also the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Surgery and Annal of Plastic and reconstructive surgery Journals.
DR ALEXANDRE
Dr. Alexandre Mendonça Munhoz, M.D., PhD. Is Assistant Professor of Plastic Surgery, Breast Surgery Division of Plastic Surgery at University of São Paulo School of Medicine in Sao Paolo,Brazil and a full member of the Brazilian Society of Plastic Surgery (SBCP). He participates as a guest member of the international consultants of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Breast Journal since 2006.
In the period of 2010-2014 Dr. Munhoz took over a role of a permanent member of the editorial board of the Annals of Plastic Surgery and the coordination of the National Commission of Breast Reconstruction of Brazilian Society of Plastic Surgery.
Dr.Munhoz currently has 27 scientific awards related to plastic surgery research, 145 published scientific papers, being 124 indexed in PubMed platform, 93 publications as a first author and in the area of aesthetic and reconstructive breast surgery, which resulted in about the 2967 citations with H-Index of 29.
In 2013, he became Head of the Breast Reconstruction Department of the Cancer Institute of São Paulo (ICESP). In 2015, Dr. Munhoz took over the Department of Plastic Surgery of the Moriah Hospital. In 2016, he was elected by American Society of Plastic Surgery (ASPS) as Associated Editor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Global Open Journal. In 2022, Dr. Munhoz became an International member of American Society of Plastic Surgery (ASPS) and a full member of International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS).
DR DENNIS
Dr. Dennis Hammond, a board-certified plastic surgeon by the American Board of Plastic Surgery, is one of the world’s most recognized and respected authorities in breast aesthetic and reconstructive surgery. He is a member of and has served on numerous committees for the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) as well as for the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS), and is a member of the prestigious American Association of Plastic Surgeons.
Dr. Hammond has co-edited one of the most influential textbooks in plastic surgery along with his friend and colleague Dr. Scott Spear from Georgetown University in Washington DC. He has authored many scientific papers, and serves as a reviewer for scientific articles for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, Plastic and Reconstructive surgery, and the Journal of Aesthetic Surgery.
Dr. Hammond has written “Atlas of Aesthetic Breast Surgery“, first published in 2009, a book which became a gold standard on how to perform new and innovative techniques for surgically and artistically augmenting, reshaping, lifting, and reducing the breast.
DR NIAMH
Dr Niamh Corduff qualified from Charing Cross Medical School, the University of London, in 1984 and subsequently did her basic surgical training in the UK before emigrating to Australia in 1988. Dr Corduff completed her specialist plastic surgical training in Melbourne Australia and in 1993 became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. With more than 2 decades of experience, this Australian surgeon is a member and former president of the Australasian Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery and an honorary member of the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons. Dr Corduff developed a special interest in breast surgery and since 2000 her surgical practice was focused solely on aesthetic and reconstructive breast surgery. She has published and lectured on aesthetic breast surgery both locally and internationally.
DR FEDERICO
Born in Spain in 1967, Dr. Mayo holds a degree in medicine and surgery from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, a doctorate in research skills from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and a medical specialty in plastic aesthetic and reconstructive surgery since 2001, recognized by the UK. He is a member of the General Medical Council, validated in Switzerland and has professional experience in Zurich and currently in Madrid.
He is the author of chapters in specialty books and his works have been published in renowned journals, such as Aesthetic Plastic Surgery and Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Dr. Mayo is an active member of the scientific society, including the Sociedad Española de Cirugía Estética y Plástica, the Asociación Española De Cirugía Estética, the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, and the American Society of Plastic Surgery. He is a reviewer for the Aesthetic Plastic Surgery Journal and has patented ideas applicable in breast implant manufacturing. He has completed over 12,000 surgical interventions as primary surgeon and has implanted over 10,000 breast implants in more than 20 countries around the world as part of conferences, Masterclasses, and other scientific events.
Jeffrey Bettinger joined Establishment Labs® in November 2021 from Nu Skin, a global leader in beauty and wellness, where he served as the Chief People and Places Officer. In addition, he held a variety of executive and senior leadership roles in medical devices, financial services, pharmaceuticals, and engineering.
Some of his past employers are USAA, Petco, State Farm, Fluor, and Walmart. He has had the honor of receiving regional and national recognition for leadership development and culture transformation. Moreover, he has been published on a variety of human capital topics. Mr. Bettinger has an extensive academic background, starting with a bachelor’s degree in communication, a master’s degree in Organizational Communication and Educational Administration from Idaho State University, and a Master’s in Business Administration from Liberty University.