NuVasive Adds Industry Vet to its Board

San Diego, Calif.-based spine company NuVasive Inc. has added Vickie L. Capps to its board of directors. Capps also will serve on the board’s Audit Committee and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.

“We are pleased to welcome Vickie to our board of directors,” said Gregory T. Lucier, NuVasive’s recently named chairman and CEO. “Her extensive financial expertise and executive leadership experience as a former chief financial officer will provide valuable financial and accounting experience to our board. In addition, Vickie’s joining the Board represents another step in further diversifying the depth of experience that resides on our Board as we continually seek to enhance the governance of NuVasive.”

From July 2002 to December 2013, Capps served as the chief financial officer (CFO) of DJO Global Inc. Prior to joining DJO Global, she served as CFO of several other public and private companies. Earlier in her career, she served as a senior audit and accounting professional at Ernst & Young LLP. She is a member of the senior advisory board of Consonance Capital Partners, a healthcare investment firm, and serves on the board of its portfolio company, Enclara Pharmacia. She also serves on the board of directors and as chair of the audit committees of RF Surgical Systems Inc., Otonomy Inc. and Connecture Inc. Capps is a California certified public accountant and was recognized as CFO of the Year by the San Diego Business Journal in 2009 and 2010. She earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration/accounting from San Diego State University.

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