InspireMD, Inc. announced the appointment of medical technology executive Pete Ligotti as Executive Vice President and General Manager of North America. Mr. Ligotti brings more than 30 years of general management and commercial leadership experience to the InspireMD team. Mr. Ligotti joins InspireMD from NuVasive (merged with Globus Medical) where he served as Vice President and General Manager of NuVasive Specialized Orthopedics ?

NSO since January 2022. Before that, he served as Vice President of Global Commercial Strategy at Smith+Nephew, and, prior to that, in various roles of increasing responsibility at Integra LifeSciences, culminating with Senior Vice President and General Manager - Extremity Orthopedics. He began his career as Sales Manager at Clinical Neuro Systems (sold to Integra LifeSciences in December 1999).

Mr. Ligotti earned his BA in Biology from Syracuse University, and a mini-MBA in Financial Essentials from Rutgers University.