Pierre Jérôme

Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer

Pierre Jérôme founded SpineGuard S.A. with Stéphane Bette in April 2009. Mr. Jérôme has almost 20 years of experience in the medical industry, half in spine.
Prior to founding SpineGuard, Mr. Jérôme served as Vice President Sales & Marketing for SpineVision S.A., a privately-owned integrated spinal technology company focused on the development and marketing of implants and instrumentation for spinal treatment, from December 2005 to March 2009. Before joining SpineVision, Mr. Jérôme held various senior positions in sales, marketing and general management from 1997 to 2005 in both in the US and in Europe with Boston Scientific Corp., a company focused on less-invasive device technologies across the medical industry. Prior to joining BSC, he served five years with Sofamor Danek, a pioneering spine company which has since been integrated by Medtronic, today’s Spine leader. While at Sofamor Danek, Mr. Jérôme held several marketing positions, including European Marketing Director.
Mr. Jérôme received a Master degree in Management from the INSEEC School of Business Bordeaux, France.

Stéphane Bette

Co-founder, Chief Technical Officer and US General Manager

Mr. Bette brings more than 17 years of R&D and general management experience in the Spine industry.
Prior to founding SpineGuard, Mr. Bette was a member of the foundational team of SpineVision, a privately-owned integrated spinal technology company focused on the development and marketing of implants and instrumentation for spinal surgery, where he served for 10 years at various positions of increasing responsibilities from R&D Project Management to VP of R&D and finally US General Manager. Mr. Bette began his career in 1996 as R&D Project Manager with Sofamor Danek, a pioneering spine company which has since been integrated by Medtronic, today’s spine leader, where he developed a scoliosis system. Mr. Bette received a Master degree in Mechanical Engineering from ENSAM, France and a Post-graduate Degree in Biomechanics from LBM in Paris, France.

Manuel Lanfossi

Chief Financial Officer

Manuel Lanfossi joined SpineGuard as Chief Financial Officer in March 2011. Prior to joining SpineGuard, Mr. Lanfossi was employed by Sealy Inc as Vice President Strategic Planning for Europe. 
Mr Lanfossi brings over 10 years of experience in the medical industry serving as Finance Director Europe at ev3 from 2004 to 2006 and at  Dade Behring (today Siemens Diagnostics) from 1995 to 2002 as Regional Finance Director and Director of European Shared Services in Brussels.Mr Lanfossi began his career in 1987  as an auditor with Deloitte and has held since various Senior Finance positions in different industries such as ASSA ABLOY where he focused on mergers & acquisitions in his position of Chief Financial Officer for the EMEA region. Mr Lanfossi received his master degree from the Normandy Management School. He is a French & Italian citizen and speaks French, Italian, Spanish and English.

James Coyle

Vice President, US Sales

Mr. Coyle joined SpineGuard in April of 2009, participating in the successful creation of this new company focused on the PediGuard spinal device. Prior to this launch, he served in the same role as Vice President, US Sales, for SpineVision (January 2008) a privately held, international spinal implant company.
With over 22 years in the medical sales industry - 18 of those years in spinal devices, Mr. Coyle took on sales management roles with start-up companies AOI Medical and K2M beginning in 2005. Before that, Mr. Coyle served in various sales and management roles with spine industry leaders, DePuy Spine, Medtronic Sofamor Danek and Orthofix, starting in 1991. He began his medical sales career with Baxter Healthcare after graduation in 1987.
Mr. Coyle has a Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Colorado School of Business.

Pierre and Stéphane have assembled a Team of 25 talented individuals divided between San Francisco and Paris, all with solid experience in the spine industry.