Bryan J. McEntire

Vice President, Manufacturing

Bryan J. McEntire has served as Vice President of Manufacturing since August 2004 and as our Vice President of Research since December 2006. Mr. McEntire has more than 30 years of experience in advanced ceramic product development, quality engineering and manufacturing.

Prior to joining Amedica, Mr. McEntire served as a Senior Director of Supply Chain Management at Applied Materials in Silicon Valley from April 1998 to August 2004, where he managed a portion of the supply chain, which included the negotiation of supply contracts, and supervision of vendor production of various parts, including precision ceramic components, which were integrated into the capital equipment made and sold by Applied Materials.

Prior to joining Applied Materials, he was General Manager of Norton Advanced Ceramics, a division of Saint-Gobain Industrial Ceramics Corporation, from 1993 to 1998, where he managed four ceramic product manufacturing plants in the United States. This included the largest US based production facility for precision silicon nitride bearing components.

From 1987 to 1993, Mr. McEntire served in various positions for a joint-venture between Norton Company and TRW, Inc., including Vice President and Technical Director. The purpose of joint-venture was to explore the use of silicon nitride based ceramics in automotive and turbine engine applications. During his tenure with the joint-venture, Mr. McEntire managed several multi-million dollar R&D contracts for the U.S. Department of Energy.

From 1978 to 1987, Mr. McEntire was successively promoted from Manager of Ceramic Production and Development to Plant Manager for Ceramatec, Inc., a small innovative producer of ionic-conducting and structural ceramic components in Salt Lake City, UT.

Mr. McEntire holds B.S. and M.B.A. degrees in Materials Science and Engineering, and Operations Management, respectively, both from the University of Utah. He is an author or co-author of over 30 technical papers on ceramic materials, processing and characterization; and served as an invited short-course lecturer on Forming of Ceramics at the Annual Meeting of the American Ceramic Society from 1986 to 1995.