Aterian Investment Partners, a private equity firm, said Butler County native Brian King has joined the board of its portfolio company, Vander-Bend Manufacturing, Inc., as executive chairman.

King was born and raised in Butler and then moved to Valencia. He attended Mars Area High School.

Most recently, King was president and CEO of Viant Medical, a global contract manufacturing services provider to the medical device industry. Under his leadership, Viant quadrupled in size to become an end-to-end industry leader generating more than $1 billion of revenue.

Prior to Viant, King spent more than a decade at Covidien, where he held positions, including group president of its $2 billion emerging markets division as well as president of Covidien's Asian operations. King has more than 25 years of experience as a global operating executive with both public and private companies focused on medical devices and other specialty end market services. King graduated with honors from the U.S. Naval Academy, received a master's in civil engineering from Pennsylvania State University and has a master of business administration degree from Harvard University.

"I am excited to join the Board of Vander-Bend. Vander-Bend is a special company with a tremendous set of growth opportunities in front of it. Vander-Bend also has terrific people,“ King said. ”I look forward to working closely with both Vander-Bend and Aterian as we focus on the company's continued evolution into a world-class operation."

Aterian Investment Partners manages approximately $1.5 billion of committed capital and invests in middle market businesses. In collaboration with management, Aterian supports investments throughout an organization, from people to processes, equipment, technology and social governance, among other areas.

Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., Vander-Bend is a provider of design, prototype and scale manufacturing solutions across the full product life cycle serving the medical technology and other high growth industries.