Vafa Jamali

President, Chief Executive Officer & Chairman of the Board, Zimvie

Search every verified Vafa Jamali interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. In a December 2020 keynote session titled "Building Resilience 2020," Vafa Jamali, then Senior Vice President and President of Respiratory, Gastrointestinal at Medtronic, discussed the company's efforts to scale production of a life-saving device during the COVID-19 pandemic. He described how Medtronic multiplied production by five times compared to December 2019 by rethinking manufacturing processes, addressing supply chain inefficiencies, and partnering with non-traditional manufacturers such as Intel, SpaceX, and Foxconn. Jamali emphasized that the company's essential workers took pride in helping communities and framed the responsibility to act during a crisis as an obligation to do what is right.