Leadership
Experience and Excellence
While Flexan has a rich and successful history in the world of custom manufacturing, our leadership team leverages this history with more than 125 years of combined experience in the medical device industry. Our leaders have excelled in a wide range of divisions within the industry, including sales, marketing, business development, product development, new ventures and more. Additionally, members of our leadership team add to our collective knowledge with experience directly in the world of manufacturing. This combination of medical device and manufacturing experience provides Flexan and its clients with a greater perspective, a better process and an improved experience.
Yash Siddhartha
President of Medical Device Solutions (MDS)
As President – Medical Device Solutions (MDS), Yash Siddhartha leads all aspects of Flexan, a global leader in custom medical device manufacturing with over seven decades of expertise in molding, extrusion, assembly, and packaging solutions. Yash brings more than 10 years of experience in engineering, global business and marketing, new product development, and sales. He most recently served as Vice President and General Manager for ITW Medical, a leading manufacturer of custom and standard fluid management, flow control, and filtration components. Within ITW, Yash also served in various leadership roles such as Global Sales Director and Global Sales and Engineering Manager. Yash holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering and an MBA from Northwestern University.
Michael Kilhefner
Vice President of Operations
Michael brings extensive experience in the healthcare and medical device industries over his 35+ year career. He joins Flexan from Abbott Laboratories where he served as Director of Operations & Site Director, Director of Packaging and Molding, overseeing a 255,000 sq. ft facility with full P&L ownership. Michael has significant experience in manufacturing operations, new product development, automation, and program management, performed at consistently high levels of success in achieving product portfolio revenue, cost, quality, and delivery metrics. He has led successful medical device and consumer product development and manufacturing deployments domestically as well as Eastern Europe, Mexico, South Korea, and China. Prior to Abbott, Michael served as Director of Operations Engineering for Medela LLC, a medical device leader in vacuum pump technology for the healthcare and consumer product industry. During his career, Michael has held various leadership roles at Sound World Solutions, Dexter Magnetic Technologies, Dentsply International, and Shure Incorporated. He will be primarily located at Flexan's Lincolnshire facility and will spend time at each of Flexan's locations based on the needs of the business. Michael holds a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering from Tri-State University (Trine), a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering, and a Master of Business Administration from Almeda University.