Christopher Oleksy is co-founder and CEO of Next Life Medical. He is also currently the acting CEO of Emergent Respiratory—an emergency CPAP company acquired by Next Life Medical. Emergent is known for its CPAP device, the PortO2Vent CPAPos. Previously, Oleksy was president of Integra Biotechnical (now Providien Medical), a vertically integrated medical device contract manufacturing company providing a full range of supply chain services such as injection molding, assembly, packaging, and sterilization management for Class II and Class III devices. He also served as president of ATEK Medical (acquired by Vention Medical in 2011). Oleksy has also held several executive supply chain management positions within Medtronic Inc. and Dow Corning Corporation. Oleksy is known as a supply chain pioneer and thought leader who has developed, authored, presented, and, successfully implemented customer-focused value chain thinking for over 30 years. He was one of the founding authors of the global, industry ANSI standard, Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) Model facilitated by PRTM and AMR.