Wright Medical Group N.V. announced that they will create a new digital organization and appointed Jason Asper as sr. vice president, chief digital officer. This appointment is in addition to Mr. Asper's current responsibilities for strategy, corporate development and information technology. This new digital organization will focus to execute Wright's transformative digital surgery strategy to develop new platforms, accelerate surgical solutions and drive software technology innovation across the business.

This organization will build upon the company's highly differentiated, market-leading BLUEPRINT™ software by leveraging emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and augmented reality to provide innovative and transformative software-enabled surgery platforms and solutions for the extremities markets. This newly created organization will bring together software-enabled surgery, information technology, and analytics organizations. In his new role, Mr. Asper will be responsible for developing and executing Wright's transformative digital surgery strategy across the company's extremities business units as well as leveraging technology to drive efficiencies across all functions of the company.

Jean Chaoui, the former chief executive officer of IMASCAP and Wright's newly named vice president, chief software technology officer, will report to Mr. Asper and continue to lead the centralized software organization. This combined leadership team will further accelerate development of the company's BLUEPRINT™ platform, deploying new software-enabled solutions to create a comprehensive digital eco-system to improve patient outcomes.