SpineGuard announced the appointment of Patrick Pilcher as Vice President of Sales & Marketing for the United States, effective May 3, 2021. Patrick Pilcher joins SpineGuard as Vice President of Sales and Marketing with the U.S. responsibility for driving distribution channel development. Mr. Pilcher has over 30 years of sales, sales management, marketing and business development experience in the medical device and peripheral spine surgery arena. Over the course of his career, his areas of expertise were tied to spinal fusion, dynamic stabilization, motion preservation, neuromonitoring, and orthobiologic modalities. During that time, he held roles in both legacy corporations such as Medtronic (SDG), Zimmer and start-ups with Spinal Concepts (Abbott), Pioneer Surgical (Surgalign), Surgical Monitoring (Sentient Medical), Spinal Elements, AlloSource and CellRight Technologies.