Scott Garrett
Description SCOTT GARRETT, 60, serves as Beckman Coulter?s Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer. He was named Chairman of the Board in April 2008, Chief Executive Officer effective February 2005 and served as President and Chief Operating Officer since December 2003. He joined the Company in 2002 as President, Clinical Diagnostics. Prior to joining Beckman Coulter, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Garrett Capital Advisors, L.L.C., a private equity firm focused on medical device companies, and as Chief Executive Officer for Kendro Laboratory Products, L.P., a life sciences company. Mr. Garrett also spent over 20 years of his career with Baxter International/American Hospital Supply Corporation and a Baxter spin-off company. He began his career with Baxter in product development. Through a series of promotions Mr. Garrett became Group Vice President of Baxter and President of the Diagnostics subsidiary. Baxter?s Diagnostics subsidiary subsequently became Dade International and then Dade Behring, Inc., where Mr. Garrett served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Garrett has been a director of Beckman Coulter since January 2005. The Board believes Mr. Garrett should serve as a director given his extensive healthcare and industry experience and his substantial understanding of the Company and its operations resulting from his position as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company. To view the detailed information, you need to SUBSCRIBE with us. |
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