EnglishExecutive Team
The senior management team is led by CEO and President, Ron Zwanziger, and comprised of many of the healthcare industry’s leading innovators. The team meets regularly and focuses on the key strategic, financial, operational, and policy issues affecting the company. They are committed to empowering individuals with greater freedom to take charge of their own health and delivering value to shareholders.
Ron Zwanziger
Ron Zwanziger has served as our Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President since our inception on May 11, 2001. Mr. Zwanziger served as Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of our predecessor company, Inverness Medical Technology, from its inception in 1992 through November 2001 when that company was acquired by Johnson & Johnson. From 1981 to 1991, he was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of MediSense, a medical device company. Mr. Zwanziger also serves as a director and Chairperson of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. As the Chief Executive Officer of Alere, as well as the founder and Chief Executive Officer of two other successful medical diagnostic companies, Mr. Zwanziger brings strategic vision, leadership, extensive business and operating experience and an immense knowledge of our Company and the industry to the Board.
John Bridgen, Ph.D.
John Bridgen, Ph.D. has served as Senior Vice President, Business Development since July 2010, after serving as our Vice President, Business Development. He served as our Vice President, Strategy from September 2005 to June 2006. Dr. Bridgen joined our Company in September 2002 upon our acquisition of Wampole Laboratories, LLC. Dr. Bridgen served as President of Wampole from August 1984 until September 2005. Prior to joining Wampole, Dr. Bridgen had global sales and marketing responsibility for the hematology and immunology business units of Ortho Diagnostic Systems Inc., a Johnson & Johnson company.
Ellen Chiniara
Ellen Chiniara serves as Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary and is responsible for managing legal matters for our Company. Ms. Chiniara joined us in October 2006 as General Counsel, Professional Diagnostics and became our Vice President and General Counsel in May 2007 and Secretary in May 2010. From 2002 to 2006, Ms. Chiniara was Associate General Counsel, Neurology of Serono, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company. Previously, she served as General Counsel to a healthcare venture capital fund and a healthcare management services organization, where she also was Chief Operating Officer of its clinical trial site management division. From 1994 to 1997, Ms. Chiniara was Assistant General Counsel at Value Health, a specialty managed healthcare company where she focused on disease management and healthcare IT. Prior to 1994, Ms. Chiniara was a partner in Boston with Hale and Dorr (now Wilmer Hale).
Robert Di Tullio
Robert Di Tullio joined us as Vice President, Global Regulatory and Clinical Affairs in March 2010. He has over 37 years experience in the in vitro diagnostics industry, the last 26 of which is in quality and regulatory management. Mr. Di Tullio served as Vice President, Regulatory Affairs and Quality at ProteoGenix, Inc. from July 2008 to March 2010. He held the position of Vice President, Regulatory and Clinical Affairs and Quality at Sequenom, Inc. from June 2007 to July 2008. From June 1992 to June 2007, Mr. Di Tullio served as Vice President, Regulatory Affairs and Quality Systems at Diagnostic Products Corporation, or DPC, and then Siemens Medical Solutions Diagnostics once DPC was acquired. Mr. Di Tullio has been co-chair of the AdvaMed Dx task force since 2007.
Hilde Eylenbosch, M.D.
Hilde Eylenbosch, M.D. has served as Chief Commercial Officer, after serving as our Senior Vice President, Marketing from July 2010 to November 2010 and as our Vice President, Marketing from April 2009 to July 2010. Prior to April 2009, she served as Chief Executive Officer of SPD Swiss Precision Diagnostics GmbH, our 50/50 joint venture with Procter & Gamble, since its inception on May 18, 2007. Dr. Eylenbosch has also served as our President, Consumer Diagnostics since June 2006. Prior to assuming that title she served as Vice President, Consumer Diagnostics from July 2005 to June 2006, Vice President, Consumer Marketing from October 2004 to July 2005 and Vice President of International Women’s Health from November 2001 to October 2004. Dr. Eylenbosch served in the same capacity for our predecessor company, Inverness Medical Technology, from August 2001 until that company was acquired by Johnson & Johnson in November 2001. Prior to that, she held various positions at Inverness Medical Technology, including Director of U.S. Women’s Health from September 1998 through October 2000. When she joined Inverness Medical Technology in January 1995, Dr. Eylenbosch was responsible for marketing that company’s women’s health products in Europe. Before joining Inverness Medical Technology, Dr. Eylenbosch was employed by Synthelabo, a French pharmaceutical company, where she held various marketing positions.
Robert Hargadon
Robert Hargadon joined us as Vice President, Global Culture and Performance in October 2010. He has over 30 years of experience in Human Resources, Leadership and Organization Development. Mr. Hargadon served as Vice President, Human Resources at drugstore.com from November 2006 through October 2010. Prior to that, Mr. Hargadon was General Manager, Corporate Learning and Development at Microsoft from September 2005 to April 2006 and held various Human Resources leadership positions at Boston Scientific from 1997 to 2005, including Vice President of International Human Resources and Vice President Leadership Development. Prior to 1997, Mr. Hargadon served as Vice President, Learning and Development at Fidelity investments. Mr. Hargadon also has 15 years of consulting experience with Novations Group, Inc. and Harbridge House (acquired by PWC.).
Paul T. Hempel
Paul T. Hempel served as our General Counsel and Secretary from our inception on May 11, 2001 until April 2006, when Mr. Hempel became Senior Vice President in charge of Leadership Development and Special Counsel, while retaining his role as Secretary, which he retained until May 2010. Mr. Hempel also retained oversight of our legal affairs until May 2007. In November 2010 Mr. Hempel became Senior Vice President, Ethics/Compliance and Special Counsel. Mr. Hempel served as General Counsel and Assistant Secretary of our predecessor company, Inverness Medical Technology, from October 2000 through November 2001, when that company was acquired by Johnson & Johnson. Prior to joining Inverness Medical Technology, he was a founding stockholder and Managing Partner of Erickson Schaffer Peterson Hempel & Israel PC from 1996 to 2000. Prior to 1996, Mr. Hempel was a partner and managed the business practice at Bowditch & Dewey LLP.
Jerry McAleer, Ph.D.
Jerry McAleer, Ph.D. joined the Board on March 10, 2003. Dr. McAleer assumed the title Senior Vice President, R&D in July 2010. Prior to that he served as our Vice President, Research and Development since our inception in May 2001 and as our Vice President, Cardiology since early 2006. Dr. McAleer served as Vice President of Research and Development of our predecessor company, Inverness Medical Technology, from 1999 through November 2001, when that company was acquired by Johnson & Johnson. From 1995 to 1999, Dr. McAleer served as Director of Development of Inverness Medical Limited, Inverness Medical Technology’s primary research and development unit, where he headed the development of Inverness Medical Technology’s electrochemical glucose strips. Prior to joining Inverness Medical Technology, Dr. McAleer held senior research and development positions at MediSense, a medical device company, and Ecossensors, Inc., an environmental research company. Dr. McAleer’s scientific background in our industry provides our Board with valuable research and development expertise.
Gordon Norman, M.D.
Gordon Norman, M.D. has served as our Chief Innovation Officer since February 2010. Since that time, Dr. Norman continued to serve as Executive Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer at our subsidiary, Alere Health, LLC, where he held the title of EVP, Science & Innovation from May 2008 to February 2010. From June 2007 to May 2008, Dr. Norman served as EVP, Chief Science Officer of Alere Medical, Inc., which we acquired in November 2007. From July 2005 to June 2007, Dr. Norman served Alere Medical as EVP and Chief Medical Officer. Prior to joining Alere Medical in July 2005, Dr. Norman served in a variety of executive medical management roles for PacifiCare Health Services since July 1994.
Jon Russell
Jon Russell has served as our Vice President, Finance since December 2006. In this role, Mr. Russell oversees financial systems management and integration and shares responsibility for external communications with the Chief Executive Officer. Previously, Mr. Russell was Chief Financial Officer of Wampole Laboratories, LLC from September 2005 to June 2006. He has more than 20 years of experience in finance and operations management, including senior operational finance positions in North America and Europe with Precision Castparts Corporation, Vertex Interactive, Inc. and Genicom Corporation. Mr. Russell began his career at Ernst & Young LLP.
David Scott, Ph.D.
David Scott, Ph.D. has served on the Board since July 31, 2001 and has served as our Chief Scientific Officer since our inception in May 2001. Dr. Scott served as Chairman of Inverness Medical Limited, a subsidiary of our predecessor company, Inverness Medical Technology, from July 1999 through November 2001, when that company was acquired by Johnson & Johnson, and as a managing director of Inverness Medical Limited from July 1995 to July 1999. Dr. Scott’s scientific and management background in our industry provides our Board with valuable general business and research and development expertise.
David Teitel
David Teitel has served as our Chief Financial Officer, Vice President and Treasurer since December 2006. Mr. Teitel has over 20 years of public and private company finance experience, including nine years of audit experience at Arthur Andersen and senior financial positions with Thermo Electron Corp., which is now Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. and Deknatel Snowden Pencer Inc. Mr. Teitel joined the Company in December 2003 as Director of Finance Operations and assumed the title Vice President, Finance in December 2004.
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