Cepheid
Carla Ackley Cravalho serves as the Director of Global Trade Compliance at Cepheid since June 2022, bringing extensive experience from a 23-year tenure at Cisco Systems as Senior Customs Manager, where responsibilities included overseeing the integration of trade compliance programs during mergers and acquisitions. Previously, Carla worked as a U.S. Customs Broker at Hellmann Worldwide Logistics and held the position of Executive Manager at Oakland Foreign Trade Zone. Educational qualifications include a Master of International Management in International Business from Thunderbird School of Global Management and a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from California State University-Sacramento.
Cepheid
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Cepheid is a molecular diagnostics company. The Company develops, manufactures and markets fully-integrated systems for testing in the Clinical and Non-Clinical markets. The Company's systems enable molecular testing for organisms and genetic-based diseases by automating otherwise complex manual laboratory procedures. The Company's systems integrate these steps and analyze biological samples in test cartridges. Its primary offering is the GeneXpert system, which integrates sample preparation in addition to Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) amplification and detection. The GeneXpert system is designed for a range of user types ranging from reference laboratories and hospital central laboratories to satellite testing locations, such as emergency departments and intensive care units within hospitals, as well as physician offices and other alternate site laboratories. It also offers the SmartCycler system, which integrates DNA amplification and detection to allow rapid analysis of a sample.