Richard Hughes

Alere, Inc. engages in developing, manufacturing, and marketing consumer and professional medical diagnostic products. It operates through the following segments: Professional Diagnostics, Consumer Diagnostics, and Other Non-Reportable. The Professional Diagnostics segment includes an array of diagnostic test products and other in vitro diagnostic tests. The Consumer Diagnostics segment consists of manufacturing operations. The Other Non-Reportable segment includes Alere Home Monitoring, which distributes PT and INR coagulation; monitors and facilitates the distribution of equipment; and supplies to power and control customers' implanted ventricular assist devices and VADs. It also provides telemonitoring services that allow VAD coordinators to monitor patients soon after discharge and receive alerts when critical patient values fall outside pre-established ranges. The company was founded by Ronald Zwanziger on May 11, 2001 and is headquartered in Abbott Park, IL.

Critical Care Diagnostics, Inc. develops diagnostic tools. The firm offers Presage, a laboratory assay employing ST2 for the diagnosis and prognosis of cardiovascular disease. It also offers Aspect-PLUS ST2 test, a cardiac biomarker testing product that aids clinicians in assessing risk, making treatment decisions, evaluating therapy effectiveness, and monitoring patient care. The company was founded by Sven M. Jacobson and David M. Geliebter in 2004 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Microvisk Ltd. engages in the manufacture and development of micro-viscometer based on micro electro mechanical sensors technology for medical field. The firm's products include CoagMax, CoagLite, CoagManager and SmartStrip. It develops technology for the detection and analysis of a fluid's properties using a cantilever-based micro-viscometer. The company was founded by Vladislav Djakov, Paul Morgan Vernon and Jeremy Burford Peckham in 2004 and is headquartered in Oxford, the United Kingdom.