Christi Pedra

Senior Vice President Strategic New Business Development & Marketing, Customer Solutions Group, Siemens Healthcare USA
InVivo’s Board of Directors

In January 2010, Christi M. Pedra was appointed Senior Vice President of Strategic New Business Development and Marketing in Siemens Healthcare Customer Solutions Group. Prior to

joining the Customer Solutions Group, Christi Pedra was Chief Executive Officer of Siemens Hearing Instruments, Inc. where she was responsible for leading the companys sales, manufacturing, product research and development in the United States, Canada, and Latin America.

Ms. Pedras career with Siemens began in 1985 in the information and communication divisio

n as part of the joint venture between IBM and Siemens. There she grew her career in various senior management roles in sales and marketing. In 2002 she helped launch Siemens One as Vice President of Executive Relations and was promoted to Vice President of Sales and Chief Operating Officer in 2004.

Ms. Pedra is frequently recognized for her commitment to mentoring, diversity and talent management. She is an executive sponsor for the Womens Affinity Network at Siemens Healthcare and also serves as the chairperson for Siemens Global Leadership Of Women (GLOW-USA) connecting all the Womens Networks in Siemens North America. Her passion for talent development has enabled her to pilot innovative mentoring expe

riences and create internship programs which have been highly praised by both business and academia.

Active in leadership roles in both the business and civic sectors, Christi Pedra is a member of the Board of Directors of InVivo Therapeutics, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Leadership Advisory Board and the National Council for Liberal Education Americas Promise. In 2003, she was nominated and selected to be a David Rockefeller Fellow, a one-year leadership program sponsored by the N.Y.C. Partnership and the David Rockefeller Foundation.