Manuel O. Méndez Muñiz joined the Quotient Board and was appointed Chief Executive Officer in April 2021.

From 2019 to 2021, Mr. Méndez served as the Senior Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer at Quest Diagnostics Incorporated (NYSE: DGX), a leading global provider of diagnostic information services. From 2014 to 2019, Mr. Méndez held various roles, including Senior Vice President, Global Commercial Operations, Chief Commercial Officer and member of the Executive Committee, at QIAGEN N.V., a worldwide provider of Sample to Insight solutions for molecular testing. Mr. Méndez has also held a variety of senior leadership roles with Abbott Laboratories, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., OraSure Technologies, Inc. and bioMerieux, Mr. Méndez sits on the Advisory Boards of the Boston University College of Engineering, Forbes Business Council, and Alumni Society. He is also an executive member of the Latino Corporate Directors Association (LCDA). Mr. Méndez received a Master of Business Administration degree from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and a Bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering from Boston University.

Ali Kiboro joined Quotient as the company’s Chief Financial Officer in November 2021.

Mr Kiboro brings over 20 years of experience in global finance in healthcare services and manufacturing. Mr Kiboro joined the Company from Quest Diagnostics where he served as Vice President, Finance supporting the Commercial organization. Over a 12-year career at Quest, Mr Kiboro assumed finance positions of increasing responsibility supporting Quest’s strategy around Hospitals, Health Plans, Global Markets, Oncology and Anatomic Pathology, Professional Lab Services and Clinical Trials. Prior to that, Mr Kiboro served as a financial analyst with General Motors (GM) in 1997. He moved to GM Treasurer’s Office in roles in the US and Europe covering capital markets, corporate strategy, capital planning, mergers and acquisitions, pension and healthcare funding, and investor relations. Ali holds an MBA in Finance from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a BS in Finance from Duquesne University.

Christian Albrich joined Quotient as the company’s Chief People Officer in September 2021.

He brings 30 years of HR experience in the healthcare industry, designing effective and business-aligned people strategies, fostering high-performing cultures, and leading organizational development initiatives. Previously, he spent 20 years with Actelion Pharmaceuticals, now a JANSSEN Pharmaceutical company of Johnson & Johnson, where he served as the Senior Vice President and Head of Global Human Resources. Joining Actelion at the start-up phase, he transformed the HR function to support the rapid growth of the company. Prior to joining Actelion, Christian was Human Resources Director at Serono Pharmaceuticals in France and Belgium.

Dr. Michael Hausmann joined Quotient in August 2021 to serve as the company’s Chief Technology Officer and to lead our research, product development and program management office.

Passionate about creating value through internal and external innovation and customer-centric design and development, Michael brings about 25 years of in vitro diagnostics industry experience to the company. Prior to joining Quotient, he led Abbott Diagnostics' R&D center in Germany, global R&D for BioMérieux's immunoassay business and, most recently, global R&D for Thermo Fisher Scientific's BRAHMS biomarker business unit and Clinical Diagnostics Division. At these firms, he oversaw portfolio and program management offices, biomarker research and technology innovation as well as assay and system development programs and enabled teams to deliver numerous new product introductions to the Point-of-Care, clinical laboratory and blood transfusion markets and to accelerate growth of industry leading solutions such as Architect, Prism, Vidas and BRAHMS Procalcitonin. Michael holds a Ph.D. in Biology from the Max-Planck-Institute of Immunobiology and a MSc degree in Chemistry from Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg, Germany and is an alumnus from the General Management Program of CEDEP, Fontainebleau, France. 

Esteban Uriarte joined Quotient as the company’s Chief Manufacturing Operations Officer in February 2022.

He brings over 30 years of experience in leading high-growth teams in manufacturing and production operations management in the medical devices and pharmaceutical industries. He joins the Company from Ferring Pharmaceuticals where he served as Senior Manufacturing Director responsible for the headquarters site based in Switzerland and the LatAm region. Prior to joining Ferring Pharmaceuticals, he was the Manufacturing Director, Instruments (DACH) at Depuy Synthes, a Johnson & Johnson Company. While there he led 800 employees at five factories and was responsible for defining the global manufacturing strategic initiatives in support of footprint optimization and competitiveness improvement.  He has held numerous leadership positions at companies such as Vifor Pharma, S.A., Novartis, and Medtronic. Esteban holds an MBA in Finance from Inter-American University Metropolitan Campus Puerto Rico, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. 

Steven Zuiderwijk joined Quotient as the company’s Chief Strategy & Business Development Officer in July 2022.

Steven has over 15 years of industry experience in strategy and business development as well as deal and partnership execution. Prior to joining Quotient, Steven served as vice president at Philips, leading global strategy and business development and execution in the Precision Diagnosis businesses. Prior to that, Steven led teams across Europe and the Middle East at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) to develop corporate and commercial strategies for leading financial institutions and executed several post-merger integrations and turnarounds. He holds a Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Delft, The Netherlands, and a Master of Business Administration from INSEAD, Singapore.

Michael Campbell joined Quotient as the company’s Head of Regulatory Affairs & Quality in February 2019. 

He has over 25 years of experience in quality and regulatory roles in medical device and in vitro diagnostics manufacturing. Prior to joining Quotient, Mr. Campbell worked at Occlutech Group, Maquet Cardiopulmonary, Beckman Coulter and Olympus in various leadership positions, providing leadership during development projects and external evaluations, regulatory agency interactions and authorizations and market entry/commercialization activities for products including blood grouping analyzers and reagents. Michael holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology & Chemistry from Berry College, Georgia.

Viviane Montarnal joined Quotient as the company’s Head of Legal Affairs & Compliance in April 2020.

Viviane has over 25 years of experience as in-house counsel in the medical device and pharmaceutical sectors. Previously, she served as Vice President, Associate General Counsel for Haemonetics, which provides blood and plasma collection devices and services. Ms. Montarnal also held senior in-house legal positions at Integra LifeSciences and IPSEN, companies active in the medical device and pharmaceutical industries. Viviane holds a Master in Pharmaceutical Law from Orsay University (France), a Master in International Commercial Law  from Nanterre University (France), a degree in Private Law (specialized in International Commercial Law) from University Jean-Monnet Paris XI, and is a graduate from the ISIT Paris interpretation and translation institute in English and Spanish.

Dr. Christian Fischer joined Quotient as the company’s Chief Scientific and Medical Officer in July 2023.

He is a patient-focused and accomplished medical leader with over 18 years of experience in the IVD industry. He built and led Medical, Scientific and Clinical teams at Abbott Diagnostics, Abbott Transfusion Medicine, and Thermo Fisher Scientific's Phadia immunodiagnostics business.

Dr. Fischer has a track record of evidence generation to support product launches, such as Abbott's Alinity-s for blood and plasma screening, and to ensure product compliance with applicable regulations, such as IVDR for Phadia's entire Allergy and Autoimmunity portfolio.

In his latest role, Dr. Fischer led the Phadia global medical and scientific affairs team, leading to pertinent publications in cooperation with key opinion leaders, and developed a web-based state-of-the-art clinical resource for allergen information.

Christian is a German citizen. He earned his M.D at Philipps-University in Marburg, Germany and holds an M.Sc. in Human Biology from the same university. He is a specialist in laboratory medicine and acted as a senior medical consultant for in-vitro diagnostics manufacturers and users.