Alere CEO and leadership

Q: Who is the CEO of Alere?

The CEO of Alere is Michael Cotton (Mike).

Q: Who is the founder of Alere?

Ron Zwanziger and John Wygant founded Alere.

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Alere CEO and executives

Executive Summary. Based on our data team's research, Michael Cotton (Mike) is the Alere's CEO. Alere has 9,700 employees, of which 14 are in a leadership position.

Here are further demographic highlights of the leadership team:

The Alere executive team is 21% female and 79% male.
67% of the management team is White.
11% of Alere management is Hispanic or Latino.
11% of the management team is Black or African American.

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Name & TitleBio

Michael Cotton (Mike)

President/CEO

Michael 'Mike' Cotton is a Regional Chief Executive Officer at UnitedHealthcare Community & State, President/CEO at ALERE HEALTH, and Board Member at BioIQ Inc and is based in Atlanta Metropolitan Area. He has worked as Chief Operating Officer- QualChoice Health Plan at University Hospitals, President/CEO at SelectHealth Inc, and Managing Director at Mercer Human Resources Cnsltng. Michael works or has worked at Matria Healthcare and works or has worked as Senior VP/COO at Univ Hospitals Health Systems. He attended The Ohio State University, FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY, and Cleveland State University.

Ron Zwanziger

Founder

John Wygant

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

John Wygant is a Founder and Chief Executive Officer at ALERE INC. and is based in Santa Barbara, California.

Namal Nawana

CEO / President

Carol Goldberg

Board Member

Gregg Powers

Board Member

John Quelch

Board Member

Tom McKillop

Board Member

Ahmad Kasmieh

CTO

Ahmad Kasmieh, Chief Technical Officer, Co-founder, has 22 years of IT experience with IBM, MCI, OrderTrust, and KeyCommerce. He is the lead software architect for key solutions offered by Alere Analytics, and has extensive experience in implementation of enterprise-scale distributed computing environments. His vast background spans hardware-software interface, telecommunications, billing and payment processing, ebusiness and Healthcare IT.

David Teitel

CFO, VP & Treasurer

David Teitel has served as our Chief Financial Officer, Vice President and Treasurer since December 2006. Mr. Teitel has over 25 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. Mr. Teitel is also a member of the Global Leadership Team.

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Alere founders

Name & TitleBio

Ron Zwanziger

Founder

John Wygant

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

John Wygant is a Founder and Chief Executive Officer at ALERE INC. and is based in Santa Barbara, California.

Alere board members

Name & TitleBio

Carol Goldberg

Board Member

Gregg Powers

Board Member

John Quelch

Board Member

Tom McKillop

Board Member

Geoffrey Ginsburg

Board Member

James Roosevelt

Board Member

Regina Benjamin

Board Member

Stephen MacMillan

Board Member

Alere leadership demographics

Alere gender distribution in management team

The Alere executive team is 21% female and 79% male.
Alere is 54% female and 46% male company-wide.

Male

79%

Company-wide: 46%

Female

21%

Company-wide: 54%

Alere executives by race

Management Team:

The most common ethnicity among Alere executive officers is White.
67% of the management team is White.
11% of Alere's management is Hispanic or Latino.
11% of the management team is Black or African American.

Company-wide:

White is the most common ethnicity company-wide.
53% of employees are White.
21% of employees are Hispanic or Latino.
12% of employees are Asian.

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Updated November 18, 2022

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