In 1990, when Roche Groupbrought in Jean-Luc Belingard to be head of its worldwide diagnostics division, he was given a mandate: The former head of Roche France was asked to take this small, unfocused business and turn it into a first-class diagnostics powerhouse.
Over the ensuing years, Belingard helped make significant changes within the company, restructuring the sales and marketing organization, reorganizing the...