David Milestone

David Milestone is senior advisor at USAID's Center for Accelerating Innovation and Impact (CII). He focuses on the development and implementation of market-based strategies to accelerate the adoption of priority health products. David has held various strategic marketing roles at Stryker, a $10B medical device company, where he led innovation, introduction, and strategy initiatives in India. David started his career as an engineer, first as a design engineer with Boeing, then at Stanford in biomechanics supporting the design and FDA approval of the X-Stop spinal fixation device. David holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, an MPA from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, an MS in Biomechanical Engineering from Stanford University, and a BS in mechanical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.