On the 75th anniversary of D-Day, DeviceTalks Boston will host a
veteran’s career workshop in partnership with MVPvets
BOSTON & CLEVELAND–(BUSINESS WIRE)–DeviceTalks is proud to announce today a partnership with MVPvets,
a not-for-profit group that assists and prepares transitioning military
veterans for meaningful employment in life science companies.
Piloted in 2012 as a collaborative venture with multiple medical device
firms such as Abiomed, Johnson & Johnson and AdvaMed, a trade
association for the medical device industry, MVPvets served as a focused
approach to mitigate the high veteran unemployment rate. Following its
success at the AdvaMed/MedTech Conferences in 2012-2013, MVPvets
incorporated as the life sciences industry’s exclusive veteran
not-for-profit in 2014. Its mission is to connect transitioning veterans
with industry mentors and employers through one-on-one mentoring, online
learning, job matching, and on-the-ground career building endeavors.
“Our Nation’s student veterans and veterans serve with a purpose, are
mission focused and committed to a culture of service to others. When
you combine those innate characteristics with soft skills forged through
the crucible of military training, you find a talent pipeline that’s
always ready and enthusiastic to join an industry with equally as
congruent meaning & purpose to that which they had in uniform,” said
MVPvets CEO, Colonel Jayson C. Gilberti USA (Retired). “Connecting
veterans with industry mentors is at our core and what our live,
constructive and virtual transition strategy aims to achieve. We’re
grateful to the hundreds of industry mentors and our corporate partners
for their volunteer efforts and social giving the past five years. We
look forward to strengthening our life science partnerships and
expanding our presence across academic institutions and military
installations in 2019 & beyond.”
MVPvets has organized a veteran’s career workshop to be held at
DeviceTalks Boston on June 6 at the Seaport World Trade Center.
Attendees will learn how military skills transfer into the medical
device industry and become partnered with a life science industry mentor.
“We are so honored to host MVPvets on the 75th anniversary of D-Day,”
said DeviceTalks program manager Sarah Faulkner. “This group has such an
important mission and we are inspired by their passion. We look forward
to offering a veterans career workshop at DeviceTalks Boston in
partnership with MVPvets.”
Recruiting from the best of Boston’s medtech ecosystem, DeviceTalks
Boston highlights speakers who will explore how to build better devices
and better companies. To register, visit www.boston.devicetalks.com.
About DeviceTalks:
DeviceTalks is an educational forum bringing together engineering,
product development and commercialization professionals to share the
challenges and best practices of getting medical devices to the market.
The program takes place annually in Boston, Minnesota and California.
DeviceTalks is hosted by MassDevice.com,
the online journal of record for the medical device industry, which
provides hour-to-hour coverage of the devices that save lives. More
information at DeviceTalks.com
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Contacts
Sarah Faulkner
216-978-5261 | [email protected]
