Dirk H. Ehlers

Hill-Rom Holdings, Inc. operates as a medical technology company. The firm focuses on patient care solutions that improve clinical and economic outcomes. It operates through the following segments: Patient Support System, Front Line Care and Surgical Solutions. The Patient Support Systems segment provides bed frames and surfaces, mobility and clinical workflow solutions. The Front Line Care segment offers respiratory care products and sells medical diagnostic equipment and a diversified portfolio of devices. The Surgical Solutions segment supplies surgical products including tables, lights, pendants, positioning devices, various other surgical products and accessories. The company was founded by William A. Hillenbrand on August 7, 1969 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Fresenius Kabi AG manufactures medical devices for therapies. It specializes in lifesaving medicines and technologies for infusion, transfusion and clinical nutrition. The firm offers infusion solutions for fluid substitution, blood volume replacement, intravenously administered drugs as well as the respective medical devices for the application, pump systems and infusion management systems. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Bad Homburg, Germany.

Eppendorf SE develops, manufactures, and distributes instruments and equipment for use in life-science research laboratories. The firm specializes in the areas of liquid, cell, and sample handling. Its products include pipettes, dispensers, centrifuges, bioreactor systems, cell culture and imaging consumables, centrifugation instruments, freezers, shakers, temperature control and mixing devices, as well as laboratory consumables. The company was founded by Heinrich Netheler and Hans Hinz in 1945 and is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany.

Protagen AG specializes in the development of novel diagnostic and companion diagnostic tests. Its products and services include GMP analyses, protein identification and analyses, proteome studies, UNIchip, clone and array, Bio-IT, Modiro as well as ProteinScape and Solver. The company was founded by Stefan Müllner, Helmut E. Meyer, Petra Weingarten and Martin Blüggel in 1997 and is headquartered in Dortmund, Germany.

Centogene AG focuses on genetic and biochemical diagnostic testing services for rare hereditary disorders. The firm operates through the offices located in Freiburg, Dubai and Noida. The company was founded by Arndt Rolfs in 2006 and is headquartered in Rostock, Germany.