Rai Chowdhary

Rai serves as Elute’s VP of Manufacturing. He brings over 30 years of experience in Life Sciences, advanced manufacturing, hi-tech hi-volume manufacturing, and the production of polymers and composites. He has served in various roles most recently as an executive with oversight of operations, quality, and manufacturing. His achievements include inventing and commercializing numerous medical devices technologies. Recognized for the first-ever thermal bonding of Titanium with Cobalt Chrome, he won the Sulzer Innovation award from his parent company in Switzerland. In the recent past, he played a vital role in the design and execution of animal and preclinical studies and consulted on scale-up manufacturing of polymer-ceramic composite bone void fillers.

Rai has been instrumental in getting products through the regulatory process working with the FDA, setting up the QMS, and obtaining ISO 13485 and CE registration for medical devices. He has also played the lead role in mapping supply chains from source to point of use while optimizing efficiency and eliminating risk factors. His team was key to launching products from conceptual design to pilot, and then to commercial-scale manufacturing. His contribution to onboarding key clients such as GE, Phillips, and Siemens is also noteworthy.