Nextremity Solutions Appoints New CEO and President

Rod K. Mayer assumed the role of CEO and president of Nextremity Solutions Inc. in February.
Nextremity is a Red Bank, N.J.-based company that makes surgical products for small-bone surgery.

Mayer

Mayer has a 34- year history in the orthopedic industry, with extensive entrepreneurial experience in sales, distribution, and business development. Since starting his orthopedic sales career with DePuy Orthopaedics in 1977, he has founded and/or co-founded Lake City Medical, a contract manufacturer of orthopedic instruments and implants; DVO, an extremity based orthopedic company since acquired by Tornier Inc.; and most recently, Del Palma Orthopedics, a product development company. Mayer also serves on the boards of Cupertino, Calif.-based Articulinx Inc., a company that makes devices to treat osteoarthritis, and Maple Grove, Minn.-based Conventus Orthopaedics Inc., which makes technology for periarticular fractures.

“Nextremity Solutions has achieved over 2,000 implants in 2012 with very good early clinical results,” said Stuart Katchis, M.D., a founder of Nextremity Solutions and section chief of foot and ankle surgery at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York, N.Y. “Rod brings to the management team the strategic business development leadership skills necessary to deliver the next stage of growth for the company. We are encouraged also in his proven ability to be able to capitalize on our strong pipeline of clinically relevant forefoot and mid-foot future products.”

Nextremity’s flagship product, the Nextra system, is 510(k) cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and CE marked. The company recently is in a beta-launch of three additional single use, sterile implant and instrument systems, called Precision Ready. According to the company, the new technology includes cannulated compression screws, internal drive mini-screws and snap-off staple technology to complement the Nextra System.