Meet Ger Kamminga, Vice President Quality
“There's nothing wrong with doing well by doing good.” Ger Kamminga, Vice President of Quality at Salvia BioElectronics, quoting Dan Moore, former CEO of Cyberonics.
Ger Kamminga, MBA is as low-key as they come. Tall, worldly and relaxed, he’s a quiet talker with an engineering and business background.
So, you never see it coming when it hits you with this:
When he was working for a company that made a nerve stimulator for people with epilepsy, “there was a child of six years old with severe epilepsy and medication side-effects since early childhood. After having therapy with the vagus nerve stimulator, he was able to speak to his mom for the first time in his life. ‘I love you’, is what he said.”
What do you even say to that?
If you’re Ger Kamminga, you say helping people with migraine requires both the heart and the head. The miracles – the people who say Salvia gave them back their lives – are the goal.
“Quality is not really a job that you do, right? It's a mindset,” Ger says. “I'm not responsible with my team for quality. Everybody is responsible for quality, and everybody needs to think about how what they're doing today ultimately affects the patient tomorrow.”
Ger brings a complex international background to Salvia… and a quirky American outlook. Though he’s Dutch, his 30+ years in medical device manufacturing, development and quality (including 17 years with Johnson & Johnson, the New Jersey-based pharma/medtech giant), took him to Belgium, Japan, India, China and Korea to see various approaches to quality.
This experience included four years in Miami where he sampled the definitive American experience: football tailgating. The first thing Ger did on arriving in Miami was buy season tickets to the Miami Dolphins games, parking his orange Jeep Wrangler at the stadium, joining friends and co-workers for pre-game barbeques.
“My wife and I, we still have the feeling of coming home when we arrive at the airport in the in the U.S.,” Ger says.
This is all just background to what’s front of mind for Ger.
“I hope that with my diverse experience I can inspire and support the Salvia team to foster the quality mindset we need to bring our therapy to our patients,” he says. “You start by doing good and make sure we help patients and we don't jeopardize their health. Then, everything else will follow.”
𝘚𝘢𝘭𝘷𝘪𝘢’𝘴 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘷𝘢𝘭𝘶𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘴. 𝘐𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘺𝘦𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘶𝘴𝘦. 𝘕𝘰 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘮𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘴𝘢𝘧𝘦𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘳 𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴.
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