Joshua “JP” Onffroy is an engineering executive who builds high-performing global organizations at the intersection of hardware, software and AI-enabled healthcare. As Vice President of R&D for Surgical Robotics Systems, Software and AI/ML Data Platforms at Johnson & Johnson, he leads multidisciplinary teams developing robotic-assisted solutions for endoluminal and soft-tissue surgery, lung cancer diagnosis and kidney stone treatment. His work spans telemetry-driven analytics, AI-based anatomical segmentation, navigation systems and digital platforms that support physicians, hospitals and patients worldwide. JP combines deep technical fluency with business acumen, having helped scale businesses from zero to billion-dollar revenue, overseen organizations from a few dozen to thousands of people, and repeatedly guided products from incubation to mature, in-market portfolios.
Prior to Johnson & Johnson, JP held senior roles across cloud, data infrastructure and digital health, including Vice President of R&D for diagnostic radiology imaging, disease management and healthcare analytics at Philips, where he led a $90M+ R&D organization delivering SaaS and on-premises platforms used by thousands of customers globally. Earlier, as Vice President of Cloud Infrastructure Engineering and Cloud/SaaS Operations at IBM, he steered large-scale secure API lifecycle and hybrid cloud products, and at VCE (later Dell/EMC) he helped build one of the fastest-growing converged infrastructure businesses to multi-billion-dollar scale. Trained as an electrical and computer engineer with an MBA in IT, and named on multiple patents in converged infrastructure and resource profiling, JP brings a systems-level view to modernizing existing products while launching new AI-powered solutions in digital health and data-intensive enterprises.