Bob Blankenship joined NDI Medical in 2005 after spending 20 years in positions of increasing fiscal responsibility with Philips Medical Systems and its predecessors, Marconi Medical Systems and Picker International. In his last position with Philips he was the vice president of finance, managing the worldwide financial functions of the company's $1.2 billion multi-product business line. In his last years with the company he orchestrated and managed the billion dollar merger of the Marconi Medical and Philips Imaging divisions. The complexities of this merger included the integration of two multinational organizations. Prior to this, he was an accountant at Ernst & Young for six years. Mr. Blankenship earned a M.B.A. from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He is a certified public accountant.