In this episode of The Med-Tech Talent Lab, Mitch Robbins sits down with Dr. Jose Bohorquez, founder and president of CyberMed, to explore why cybersecurity became the thing that stops medical devices at the FDA, and what it takes to build teams who can clear it.

Jose learned to solder in high school at a tiny engineering firm run out of the founder's apartment, interned at Lockheed Martin and GE Healthcare, and went on to earn a PhD at MIT. He explains why mentors with one foot in engineering and one in business pushed him toward starting a company rather than staying purely technical, and how CyberMed grew out of Bold Type, the product development firm he founded a decade ago with a co-founder who had built mission critical systems at Motorola.

The conversation also explores what changed when Congress added Section 524B to the law and the FDA began demanding real evidence, why a device cleared years ago can suddenly come back with more than a dozen deficiencies, the misconceptions that catch founders off guard, and the three separate skill sets a medical device cybersecurity professional has to bring.

Whether you build devices, lead engineering teams, or hire technical talent, this episode offers practical insights on when to bring cybersecurity into the design process, what can be taught and what has to be hired for, and the four ways AI is reshaping the risk picture.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• What Section 524B changed, and why the FDA bar rose sharply after 2023
• Why a device cleared years ago can come back with a dozen deficiencies
• The misconception that no Bluetooth or WiFi means no cybersecurity work
• Why strong engineers are not automatically good at device cybersecurity
• The three skill sets that have to converge, and which one is easiest to teach
• When to bring cybersecurity into the design process, and what waiting costs
• Four ways AI is changing the threat picture for connected devices
• Why AI-assisted code can look solid and still be a house of cards
• The interview technique Jose uses to find how deep someone's knowledge goes

...and so much more!

Dr. Jose Bohorquez on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jose-bohorquez/

CyberMed on the web:

www.cybermed.ai

In this episode of The Med-Tech Talent Lab, Mitch Robbins sits down with Craig Green, Senior Vice President of Business Development at Keytronic, to explore what three decades in contract manufacturing have taught him about winning business and building the teams that deliver it.

Craig spent the first twelve years of his career in the electric utility industry. Then the owner of a contract manufacturer came to his house for dinner, and forty-five minutes later Craig had agreed to run marketing for a metal stamping operation he knew nothing about, in a building that didn't yet own a press. He traces the path from there through the CEO seat at OEM Worldwide, where he inherited a company that had just lost forty percent of its revenue and grew it from eleven million to nearly seventy through the Great Recession.

The conversation also explores why reshoring is pulling a surge of work back to North America, why awarding a manufacturing contract is a career decision for the person signing it, the question Craig asks early in every sales interview that makes up his mind, and what breaks inside a company at each new level of revenue.

Whether you're in business development, running a manufacturing business, or building a commercial team, this episode offers practical insights on what actually wins programs, what you can teach a salesperson and what you can't, and where contract manufacturing is headed next.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why reshoring is pulling manufacturing back from China and the Pacific Rim
• What has not changed about contract manufacturing in forty years
• Why awarding a contract is a career decision for the person signing it
• The interview question Craig asks that decides it in the first five minutes
• What you can teach a business development hire, and what you can't
• How he grew a company from $11M to nearly $70M through the Great Recession
• Why the wheels come off at every new revenue milestone, and how to plan for it
• Why he built a company-wide bonus program while still losing money
• Where vertical integration and one-stop capability are heading

...and so much more!

Craig Green on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-green-172a337/

Keytronic on the web:

www.keytronic.com

In this episode of The Med-Tech Talent Lab, Mitch Robbins sits down with Jim Miller, Global Leader of Talent Acquisition at Rochester Electronics, to explore what three decades in recruiting have taught him about hiring people instead of resumes.

Jim answered a blind ad in the Sunday Boston Globe and made his first placement, a technical writer at Digital Equipment Corporation, before building a career that ran through Fidelity during the Y2K build-out and talent leadership roles at GE, Raytheon, WEX and L3Harris. He explains why understanding the business matters more than recruiting technique, why he only hires relationship recruiters, and why your reputation follows you far longer than your resume ever will.

The conversation also explores why hourly hiring has quietly become the hardest job in recruiting, the high school co-op program feeding Rochester's manufacturing floor, how the TN visa opened a talent pool most companies overlook, the hiring mistake he watches companies repeat, and his blunt take on where AI actually helps a talent team and where it simply doesn't.

Whether you lead talent acquisition, hire into manufacturing, or are building a career in recruiting, this episode offers practical insights on sourcing when every tool returns the same names, building trust across a team, and why the person responsible for your culture probably belongs closer to the CEO.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why understanding the business beats recruiting technique every time
• What made hourly hiring the hardest job in recruiting after 2021
• How a high school co-op program became a reliable manufacturing pipeline
• Why the TN visa opened a talent pool most companies overlook
• The hiring mistake companies repeat: recruiting to basic qualifications
• Where AI genuinely helps a TA team, and where Jim says it falls short
• Why relying on technology leaves recruiters waiting instead of working
• The trust test a mentor ran on Jim, and what it taught him about leading
• Why recruiting is sales, and why it rarely reports where it should

...and so much more!

Jim Miller on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimmiller64/

Rochester Electronics on the web: www.rocelec.com