February 8, 2010 (FinancialWire) — Hutchinson Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: HTCH) has named Mark A. Augusti to the company’s board of directors.

Augusti is president of Smith & Nephew’s Biologics and Spine Global Business Unit, a position he has held since 2008. He joined Smith & Nephew in 2003 as vice president of Global Trauma Marketing. He was promoted to senior vice president and general manager of the Trauma business in April 2005, and assumed the role of president of the Orthopaedic Trauma & Clinical Therapies Global Business in 2006.

Before joining Smith & Nephew, Augusti served as vice president at JPMorgan Chase & Co. and as global segment manager with GE Medical Systems. While at GE, Augusti spent 12 years in sales, marketing and development roles in the United States and Asia, residing in Japan and Thailand.

Minnesota-based Hutchinson Technology is a worldwide supplier of suspension assemblies for disk drives.

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