Rika RG Dutau

CEPHEID develops, manufactures and markets fully-integrated systems that perform genetic analysis. The firm's systems enable molecular testing for organisms and genetic-based diseases by automating otherwise complex manual laboratory procedures. The company was founded by Thomas L. Gutshall, William McMillan, Kurt Petersen, Greg Kovacs and M. Allen Northrup on March 4, 1996 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Hudson Respiratory Care, Inc. manufactures disposable respiratory care and anesthesia products. Its products include endotracheal tubes, anesthesia breathing circuits, masks, hygroscopic condenser humidifiers, bacteria, viral filters and gas sampling. The company was founded in 1945 and is headquartered in Morrisville, NC.

Part of Danaher Corp., Cepheid GmbH is a German company that enables access to molecular diagnostic testing everywhere with the GeneXpert® system. The company is based in Frankfurt, Germany. The CEOs are Peter Farrell, Mark S. Kuhn, Rika RG Dutau. Cepheid was founded in 2011.

Cepheid Europe SAS engages in the development, manufacture and market of fully-integrated systems for genetic analysis. The company was founded on October 12, 2002 and is headquartered Maurens-Scopont, France.