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Lucas Vitale
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Chief Human Resources Officer

Lucas Vitale

Lucas Vitale has served as our Chief Human Resources Officer since April 2022. Previously, Mr. Vitale served as Senior Vice President of Human Resources at Arena Pharmaceuticals (acquired by Pfizer in March 2022). In this role, he supported the evolution of the company’s global human resources business partners and talent acquisition functions, and talent-related efforts throughout its merger negotiations and integration planning. Prior to Arena Pharmaceuticals, Mr. Vitale held a variety of HR roles, including CHRO during his seven-year tenue at NuVasive, a publically traded medical devicen company. At NuVasive, he led the global HR strategy for approximately 2,700 employees across 50 countries and implemented the company’s first formal Diversity & Inclusion roadmap. Mr. Vitale also spent 10 years at Life Technologies, where he was an intregal member of the global HR leadership team and served on the company’s acquisition and integration team. He supported the scaling of the company from several hundred employees to nearly 10,000 by the time it was acquired by Thermo Fisher Scientific in 2014. Mr. Vitale earned a B.S. in business administration from Hawaii Pacific University and a Master’s Degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Alliant International University.