Miller has been with Tegra for three years, serving as vice president of operations. Before he

Miller has been with Tegra for three years, serving as vice president of operations. Before he joined Tegra, Miller was operations director and plant manager for Smiths Medical, a St. Paul, Minn.-based medical device provider. During his tenure there, Miller worked at international sites in Mexico and the United Kingdom, consolidating manufacturing plants and rolling out new enterprise resource planning systems. He holds a bachelor of science degree in operations management and information systems from the University of Massachusetts as well as professional supply chain accreditation from Northeastern University in Boston, Mass. In addition, he is a certified purchasing manager.

Hillman joined Tegra from Vaupell Holdings Inc., a supplier of injection molded components and assemblies headquartered in Seattle, Wash. For the past five years, Hillman was Northeast Division general manager; before that, he worked for Smiths Medical as vice president of manufacturing operations, where he supervised operations at two manufacturing plants that made disposable medical devices. He spent six years working for Accellent Inc., a Wilmington, Mass.-based contract manufacturing firm serving the cardiology, endoscopy and orthopedic sectors. Hillman assumed various roles at Accellent, though he most recently served as vice president of operations for the company’s Orthopaedics Division, overseeing facilities in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania that produced orthopedic implants

and instruments.

“Jim’s knowledge of medical device contract manufacturing, creativity, drive, engaging management style and strong customer focus are the attributes we wanted to lead our Massachusetts operations,” Tegra Medical President and CEO Bob Roche said.

A captain in the U.S. Naval Reserve, Hillman holds a bachelor of science degree in systems analysis from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and an M.B.A. fromOregon State University in Corvallis, Ore.