Confirmed Keynotes

Nicholas J. Valeriani
Vice President, Office of Strategy & Growth, Johnson & Johnson

Nicholas J. Valeriani is Vice President, Office of Strategy and Growth, and a member of the Executive Committee of Johnson & Johnson. He was named to this position in January of 2008. He is responsible for identifying new growth platforms for the Corporation distinct from those pursued by existing businesses. The Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation, the Corporate Office of Science and Technology (COSAT) and Worldwide Operations report to him.

Mr. Valeriani began his career in the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies in 1978 in the Engineering Division of Ethicon, Inc. He advanced through positions in engineering, operations, sales management and product management. In 1991, Mr. Valeriani joined Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc., as Vice President of Professional Education, where he was instrumental in establishing the company as a leader in surgeon education. Later that year, he was promoted to the Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. Management Board.

In 1996, Mr. Valeriani was named General Manager of Indigo Medical, Inc. He became President of Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. in 1997. In January, 2001, he was named Company Group Chairman for Johnson & Johnson with responsibility for Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc., and the Johnson & Johnson Medical Products Canadian Medical Device & Diagnostic business. The following year he became Worldwide Franchise Chairman for the DePuy franchise, another Johnson & Johnson business.

Mr. Valeriani was promoted to Corporate Vice President, Human Resources, Johnson & Johnson, and became a member of the Executive Committee in September 2003, with responsibility for worldwide management succession and organization development, compensation and benefits, education and training, recruiting, equal opportunity, affirmative action, human resources policies, and employee and labor relations. Mr. Valeriani also chaired the Corporate Contributions Committee and was a member of the Management Compensation Committee and the Pension Committee. Additionally, in the first quarter of 2004, he assumed responsibility for the company’s diagnostics businesses and was named Worldwide Chairman, Diagnostics.

In 2004, Mr. Valeriani was named Worldwide Chairman, Cardiovascular Devices and Diagnostics. In 2006, he assumed responsibility for a newly-created Cardiovascular Devices & Diagnostics Group Operating Committee, which included LifeScan, Inc., Cordis Corporation and Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, Inc. He was named Worldwide Chairman, Medical Devices & Diagnostics, in February of 2007.

Mr. Valeriani currently serves on the Committee on Efficiency & Entrepreneurship at Rutgers University and is a member of the Boards of Directors of Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and Action for Healthy Kids®

Born in Newark, New Jersey, Mr. Valeriani received a B.S. degree in industrial engineering from Rutgers University, College of Engineering, and an M.B.A. from Rutgers University, Graduate School of Management.

Mr. Valeriani is married and is the father of two children.

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