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Age 53
He joined the Group in May 2002 as President of Orthopaedics and was appointed a director and Chief Operating Officer in February 2006. Appointed Chief Executive from 1 July 2007. Prior to joining the Group he held posts within GE Medical, as Chief Executive Officer of a publicly traded medical devices company, President of a respiratory/critical care company and President of a technology incubator company.

Age 49
He joined the Group and was appointed a director in June 2006. He was previously Chief Financial Officer of Invensys plc and held various senior positions within GlaxoSmithKline.

Age 45
Elizabeth joined the Group in June 2004 as Sr. Vice President Human Resources Orthopaedics.  Appointed Group Director of Human Resources from 1 August 2007.  Prior to joining Smith and Nephew, Elizabeth held successively larger, HR roles with Bristol-Myers Squibb, supporting both US and international businesses, as well as global research institute.

Age 60
He joined the Group in 1999 as Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer for North America becoming Chief Legal Officer for the Group in February 2002. Prior to joining the Group he was in private practice and VP General Counsel and Secretary for Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc.

Age 41
He joined the Group in 2003 as Vice President and General Manager of Clinical Therapies Division. He was appointed President Advanced Wound Management in February 2006. He previously worked for Alliance Imaging, Acuson and GE Medical
Systems.

Age 40
Joseph ""Joe"" M. DeVivo joined Smith & Nephew in June 2006 as the president for the Orthopaedic Reconstruction business.
Joe came to the company with 18 years of marketing, development, sales, operations and executive leadership experience. Before coming to Smith & Nephew, he served as president & CEO of RITA Medical System, Inc. (Fremont, Calif.), a publicly traded developer, manufacturer and marketer of ablation devices used by physicians to treat people with solid cancerous or benign tumors.

Age 49
Liz has been Group Director of Corporate Affairs for Smith & Nephew since 2004.  Liz is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, having qualified with Arthur Andersen & Co.  She has worked for ten years in the venture capital industry for Gartmore Investment Limited, Citicorp Venture Capital Limited and 3i Group plc and then as Director, Corporate Affairs for 3i Group.

In 2003, Liz was seconded by 3i to the Department of Trade and Industry and HM Treasury where she worked on an SME financing programme which was announced in the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement in 2003.

Liz is a trustee of Cancer Research UK.

Age 41
He joined the Group in 2003 as Vice President of Global Marketing for the Trauma Division and was promoted to Senior Vice President and General Manager Trauma Division in 2005 becoming President Orthopaedic Trauma and Clinical Therapies in February 2006. He previously worked for GE Medical Systems in the US and Asia.

Age 45
He joined the Group as President Endoscopy in July 2006. Previously he was President and Chief Executive Officer of a US manufacturer of medical devices and spent 15 years at Tyco Healthcare becoming President of each of Patient Care and Health Systems divisions.

Age 62
He joined the Group in 1994 as Assistant Company Secretary and was appointed Company Secretary and Group Compliance Officer in April 2002.

Age 45
He joined the Group in May 1998 in Finance and has served in planning and business development roles in the Orthopaedic GBU. He was appointed to his current role in August 2007. Prior to joining the Group, he held management positions with United Technology Corporation.

Age 52
Sal joined the Group in 2001 and leads Smith & Nephew’s Global Information Services (GIS) group. He was appointed to this role in April 2007, when Smith & Nephew centralized its Information Services teams across business units. Previously, he served as Vice President for Information Technology and Digital OR in the Endoscopy business unit.

Sal brings over 20 years of information services expertise to this role. Prior to joining the Group, he served in executive leadership positions with Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Baxter Healthcare.