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Donald J. Spence joined Respironics in 2005 as President of the Sleep and Home Respiratory Group, the company’s largest business. Spence has extensive senior management experience in sales and marketing, manufacturing, financial operations, research and development, and strategic planning both domestically and internationally. Throughout his 27-year career, he has held positions of increasing responsibility with companies such as GKN plc, Datex-Ohmeda, Inc. and The BOC Group plc. Spence spent his tenure at BOC Group plc, where he served in positions of increasing responsibility in their medical equipment business Ohmeda. Key positions held from 1987 until 1998 included Business Unit Controller, Director of Field Operations, General Manager of Service and Vice President of Global Marketing. In 1997, he was appointed President of Ohmeda’s Medical Systems Division, where he held profit and loss responsibility for the world’s largest anesthesia delivery systems company. In 1998 when the business was sold to Instrumentarium (and became Datex-Ohmeda), he led the post-acquisition integration of the two businesses in North America.Spence served in several senior executive positions with GKN, plc. From 1998 to 2001 he was Senior Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing for GKN Sinter Metals located in Auburn Hills, Michigan. He held global responsibility for all sales and marketing activities for the division and established the North American sales and marketing team, which did not exist prior to 1998.From 2001 until late 2004, he was President, CEO of GKN Sinter Metals. In this role, Spence was responsible for the leadership of this global powder metal supplier with sales approaching $1 billion. He managed all division operations on a global basis and functioned as the senior executive contact to General Motors for all of GKN’s automotive divisions. More recently, Spence served as Executive Vice President, GKN Automotive.Spence earned a Master of Arts in Economics from Central Michigan University and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Michigan State University. | 