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title: The MedTech Conference Blog | Jon Speer | greenlight.guru
description: "Jon Speer is the founder and VP of QA/RA at greenlight.guru, a software company that produces the only modern quality management software solution exclusively for medical device companies. Device makers in more than 340 cities in 26 countries use greenlight.guru to get safer products to market faster with less risk while ensuring compliance.

Jon is a medical device industry veteran with over 18 years experience having helped dozens of devices get to market over his career in a variety of roles including product development, project management, quality and regulatory. He is also a thought leader, speaker and regular contributor at numerous leading industry publications like MedCity News, MD+DI, Quality Digest and more."
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## Jon Speer | greenlight.guru

Jon Speer is the founder and VP of QA/RA at greenlight.guru, a software company that produces the only modern quality management software solution exclusively for medical device companies. Device makers in more than 340 cities in 26 countries use greenlight.guru to get safer products to market faster with less risk while ensuring compliance. Jon is a medical device industry veteran with over 18 years experience having helped dozens of devices get to market over his career in a variety of roles including product development, project management, quality and regulatory. He is also a thought leader, speaker and regular contributor at numerous leading industry publications like MedCity News, MD+DI, Quality Digest and more.

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## [How to Debunk the Most Common CAPA Myths](https://blog.themedtechconference.com/how-to-debunk-the-most-common-capa-myths-greenlight-guru)

 Posted by [Jon Speer | greenlight.guru](https://blog.themedtechconference.com/author/jon-speer-greenlight-guru) on September 21, 2017

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Many organizations misinterpret CAPA's role, often placing too much emphasis on tracking and managing the reaction to a non-conformance (corrective action) and not placing an equal, if not greater, amount of weight toward risk mitigation and assessment (preventive action).

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