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Ron Price

Accelerate Diagnostics has appointed Ron Price its senior vice president and head of commercial operations for the Americas. He replaces Pete Bantock, who moves to the newly created position of chief culture officer and head of human resources. 

Price joins Accelerate from Roche Diagnostics, where he was vice president, Point of Care, Commercial Operations. Prior to this, he held various leadership positions at Ventana Medical Systems, a Roche firm, and at Bayer.

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