Mike Rhodes is the CIO at NDC, Nitinol Devices & Components, a Johnson & Johnson company in Fremont, California. He is also the IM Lead for several recent acquisitions in the San Francisco Bay Area that grow J&J's innovations business in medical device and diagnostics. NDC manufactures self expanding endovascular stents and filters. In addition, it creates new medical products and procedures based on Nitinol and micro electro-mechanical technologies. Nitinol is a nickel-titanium alloy that is biocompatible having 'shape memory' characteristics. Mike was recruited to NDC in August 2005 coming from J&J's Pharmaceutical Research and Development (PRD) group in New Jersey.  At  PRD he led information management teams across several Pharmaceutical R&D affiliates of J&J in the US and Europe for Information Privacy and Asset Protection systems.

At NDC Mike returns to his primary interest in support of medical device and software development. During his first 5 years at J&J, prior to PRD, he led several US and European based engineering teams building instrumentation for automated blood screening and blood transfusion systems world-wide. Prior to joining J&J, Mike lived in the Bay Area for 7+ years to lead the software engineering team at Toshiba America’s Magnetic Resonance Imaging group in South San Francisco.

His arrival in the Bay Area in 1989 came after a 9+ year run as an entrepreneur in Southern California where he co-founded a venture funded CT/MRI clinical imaging software company. Software developed by the venture was purchased by GE and is regarded as the gold standard for surgery planning of dental implants (DentaScan). 

Mike Rhodes holds a BS in Aerospace Engineering degree from the University of Michigan, and MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science from UCLA.  He and his wife, Ida, have three daughters, all at UCLA.