Jay McLaren has 24 years of experience in health care policy and federal and state government relations in Minnesota. For the last 15 years, McLaren has lobbied on behalf of Medica and he currently leads Medica's regulatory and legislative affairs team. Prior to Medica, McLaren was a Government Affairs Manager at Schering-Plough Pharmaceutical and worked on health policy at the State of Minnesota in a variety of capacities in the legislature and at the Department of health. McLaren is a native of Iowa, and received his Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Business from Iowa State University. 
He lives in Shoreview, Minnesota with his wife and three sons.