Founder & Managing Director
A Definite Edge Management Consulting, LLC

Jerry Messina is a Sales & Marketing Executive with extensive domestic and international experience in the Medical Device, Capital Equipment and Bio-Pharma industries. He has held leadership positions in sales, marketing, national accounts, public health and contracting in world class organizations such as Johnson & Johnson, Smith & Nephew and Sanofi Pasteur.  He has developed and led highly successful teams in small and medium size organizations, to those listed in the Fortune 50.

His experience gives him a unique perspective and practical expertise in business processes that empower commercial excellence such as strategic thinking and plan development, action planning and execution, new product launch, channel & contract optimization, organizational/cross functional alignment as well as team development and leadership. This broad experience also enables him to establish the relationships needed to engage and collaborate with teams, and speak their language. He is passionate about identifying the right things to drive commercial excellence, and then doing those things right, to enable you and your organization to develop and maintain A Definite Edge in your markets, and against your competition.

Jerry holds a BA in Business Administration from Rutgers University and an MBA with a concentration in Strategic Plan Development from Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business. He also holds certificates in New Product Development from Harvard Business School and Medical Marketing from the Anderson School of Business at UCLA.