Mr. Fletcher joined us in April 2007 as Vice President, Regulatory Compliance and Quality Systems. Prior to joining Cepheid, Mr. Fletcher was Director, Molecular Diagnostics Operations for Veridex, LLC a Johnson & Johnson company. At Veridex he was a member of the team that developed and manufactured the recently FDA approved GeneSearch BLN Test Kit which utilizes the Cepheid SmartCycler. Mr. Fletcher has held positions at Gen-Probe, Roche Molecular Systems, ID Biomedical, Amersham Pharmacia, Johnson & Johnson Clinical Diagnostics and Biosense Webster. Mr. Fletcher has more than 20 years experience in the clinical diagnostic industry in the areas of R&D, Quality Control, Operations and Quality Assurance. |