Rod Cotton served as Senior Vice President and Head of Strategy & Transformation for Roche Diagnostics.
At Roche, Rod set the agenda for the senior leadership team and played a key role in executing the most significant restructuring of the company in two decades. He drove the financial turnaround and cultural transformation of four global healthcare companies, led teams of up to 280 total reports, and managed P&L of $1+ billion.
Cotton and his colleagues achieved six ground-breaking products within the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the market’s most accurate and in-demand molecular diagnostic test.
Cotton serves on the Board of Directors of Orchard Software Corporation.
Cotton holds an M.S. in Strategic Management from the University of Southern California – Marshall School of Business, an MBA from California State University – Dominguez Hills and a B.A. degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
