Raymond Cloutier Email Address

Founder

Exactech, Inc. is an orthopaedic company that develops, manufactures, markets, distributes and sells orthopaedic

Raymond Cloutier is the founder of NovApproach Spine, an emerging medical device manufacturer with a portfolio of advanced surgical approaches designed to enable spine surgery to be performed safer, more efficiently and yield better patient outcomes. Raymond has 37 years of product design/development and executive management experience in the orthopedic industry. He has collaborated with surgeons and scientists around the world to design and bring to market biomechanically-sound total joint replacement and spinal implants and instruments. Millions of patients have benefited from these implants. He has received multiple patents for his medical device inventions. Skills include: Research and Development (R&D), U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Verification and Validation (V&V), and Intellectual Property. Strong business development professional with a proven track record of success. Endorsement from Dr. William Petty (founder of Exactech, Inc.): “Raymond is an outstanding engineer….he has strong perseverance which equips him to lead successfully through the challenges and obstacles that come up in any complex project.” “He is thoughtful and often raises issues and potential solutions that others may not have seen.” “Finally he is of the highest integrity and a pleasure to work with.”