Robert Yates to be COO of Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, Inc
Mr. Yates will also be appointed to OCD’s board of directors. Mr. Yates will join OCD from Merck KGaA where he was President and CEO of EMD/Merck Millipore, its global life sciences division.
Mr. Yates joined Millipore from the diagnostics division of Roche, where he led Roche Applied Science, the life sciences business located in Penzberg, Germany. In that role, he also served as a member of the Diagnostics Executive Committee. He joined Roche in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1988 and held various roles in R&D, Engineering and Operations before being appointed Global Head of Business Development and Licensing in Basel, Switzerland in 2003. ■