MedTech Dive May 3, 2024
Blaser is coming out of retirement to take charge of QuidelOrtho, after the diagnostics company fired former CEO Doug Bryant in February.
Name: Brian Blaser
New title: CEO, QuidelOrtho
Previous title: Executive vice president, diagnostic products, Abbott
QuidelOrtho has appointed Brian Blaser as CEO, the company said Thursday. Blaser is coming out of retirement to take charge of QuidelOrtho about two months after the in vitro diagnostics company fired longtime CEO Doug Bryant.
Bryant led Quidel, renamed QuidelOrtho after its $6 billion acquisition of Ortho Clinical Diagnostics in 2022, for nearly 15 years. The board ousted the executive in February in the wake of what an analyst called a “guidance debacle.” Under interim CEO Michael Iskra, QuidelOrtho began laying off...
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