Nick Deeter, OrthoPediatrics’ chairman of the board and managing director, will be the featured keynote speaker at the Kosciusko Youth Leadership Academy graduation ceremonies. The event is tonight at 6:30 at Champagne Jam Restaurant in Warsaw. Deeter is a Warsaw Community High School graduate, and a Purdue University graduate where he received his Bachelor of Science degree. He also is a graduate of Case Western Reserve University where he earned his MBA. Deeter has more than 30 years of business leadership and health care industry experience. He is the founder of OrthoPediatrics, a Warsaw based orthopaedic company whose focus is helping children with orthopaedic conditions and injuries by providing the surgeons with anatomically appropriate implants which they design and manufacture at OrthoPediatrics. Deeter’s orthopedic and medical device career began at Zimmer Inc. and includes more than two decades of executive leadership positions for other medical organizations. Prior to forming OrthoPediatrics, he spent seven years with DePuy Orthopaedics, a Johnson & Johnson company, where he was responsible for health care compliance administration, medical affairs, and Orthogenesis (custom devices). Deeter also served as founder, chairman, president and CEO of ViAtro Corp., a medical device company specializing in infection control products. Deeter is a member of the executive committee and the board of trustees of the Corporate Partnership for Economic Growth in Indiana and is a member of the board of trustees of Cardinal Services Inc. He is a member of Shiners International and the Warsaw Breakfast Optimist Club. Deeter is the 2012 “Entrepreneur of the Year,” awarded by the Warsaw-Kosciusko Chamber of Commerce. He resides in Warsaw, is an avid golfer and woodworker and has three sons, Joey, a freshman at Howe Military Academy; Jack , Warsaw Community High School; and Thomas a recent graduate of the United States Naval Academy.
