Dr. Srikant Datar to Retire from Stryker’s Board of Directors

After 15 years of distinguished service, Srikant Datar, Ph.D., has notified Stryker Corp. that he will not stand for re-election at the company’s 2024 annual shareholders meeting, slated to occur in May.
 
Dr. Datar is dean of the Harvard Business School and George F. Baker Professor of Business Administration. He was the Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor at the Graduate School of Business Administration at Harvard University from 1996 to 2020 and is the former faculty chair of the Harvard Innovation Labs and senior associate dean for University Affairs. From 1989 to 1996, Dr. Datar was Edmund W. Littlefield Professor at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. Dr. Datar is also a director of ICF International Inc., a management, technology and policy consulting firm, and T-Mobile U.S. Inc., a provider of wireless voice, messaging and data services.

In 2020, he was recognized by the National Association of Corporate Directors as Public Company Director of the Year. 
 
Dr. Datar has an extensive background in accounting and finance and various other business areas, including performance measurement, design thinking and innovation, and machine learning and artificial intelligence. His strong academic and business background and board experience for high-tech global companies has helped us accelerate our global growth through focus on organic and M&A innovation.
 
“We sincerely appreciate Srikant’s many contributions to the board over the years and thank him for being a strategic resource and champion of our growth ambitions,” Stryker Chair/CEO Kevin Lobo said. “We wish Srikant all the best and thank him for his guidance in helping Stryker deliver on its mission of making healthcare better.”
 
Stryker is one of the world’s leading medical technology companies that offers products and services in Medical and Surgical, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics, and Spine. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 130 million patients annually.