Last Updated: October 7, 2025
Analyzing Management
Leadership at public companies serves as a crucial variable for hedge funds and asset managers during both initial due diligence and continual risk assessment. ManagementTrack offers a consistent methodology that filters out distractions—highlighting strengths and weaknesses, identifying warning signs and positive indicators, and establishing a tangible connection between CEO choices and financial performance.
CEO Blaser’s ops expertise may not be enough to replace declining COVID revenue.
Analysis of QuidelOrtho CEO Brian Blaser
While Brian Blaser’s operational expertise is well-suited for margin expansion and platform launches, his lack of strategic commercial leadership creates uncertainty around his ability to replace declining COVID-related revenue.
ManagementTrack’s analysis focuses on Brian Blaser’s track record and skillset against the following key factors for QDEL:
- Generating FCF to service debt and de-lever the balance sheet.
- Securing FDA approval for the VELO platform launch.
- Offsetting declining COVID revenue to protect profitability.
- Executing procurement savings to expand EBITDA margins.
Report Available: Proprietary Interviews & Analysis on Brian Blaser Answers Key Questions
ManagementTrack reports provide track record analysis, career playbooks, strengths, and weaknesses for every CEO. They allow investors to dig deeper to uncover hard-to-find data to answer the most pressing questions.
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Question Answered #1
How will Blaser’s tendency to micromanage those who have not yet earned his trust impact the execution of his operational improvement plans?
Question Answered #2
How will Blaser compensate for his noted lack of strategic acumen to offset declining COVID-related revenue and drive long-term growth?
Question Answered #3
How does Blaser’s reputation for calmness and integrity enable him to execute complex cost-out programs and platform launches without disrupting the organization?
Why Do Investors Use ManagementTrack?
Q: What is ManagementTrack’s assessment of Brian Blaser at QDEL?
A: Through its proprietary career analysis and interviews with former colleagues, ManagementTrack establishes an executive’s track record and identifies key strengths and weaknesses. This profile is then mapped against QDEL’s most critical challenges, including generating sufficient free cash flow to service debt, securing FDA approval for new platform launches, offsetting declining COVID-related revenue to maintain profitability, and executing procurement savings to expand margins.
Q: Beyond career history, what other tools does ManagementTrack use to link executive actions to company performance?
A: ManagementTrack utilizes proprietary models that pinpoint executive evasion during earnings call Q&A sessions, flagging any responses that are statistically abnormal. Furthermore, the platform scrutinizes all insider transactions to identify outlier trades that signal potential future over or underperformance. These inputs, combined with the ManagementTrack Rating—a predictive 1-10 score for each executive—provide investors with a distinct positive or negative signal on how an executive’s capabilities are likely to influence future results.
Q: Which companies and executives does ManagementTrack cover?
A: ManagementTrack provides real-time coverage of the entire C-suite for all publicly traded companies.
How to Learn More
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Author
Colby Howard is the co-founder and President of Paragon Intel. Paragon Intel’s ManagementTrack is the premier executive analysis platform for hedge funds, asset managers, corporations, boards, and recruiters. Our proprietary data, built over a decade of analysis, allows us to analyze each public company executive to understand their fit and ability to execute at their company. We leverage our proprietary data – key quantitative research on an executive’s career plus interviews with their former colleagues – with public documents, including SEC filings (10-K, 10-Q), investor presentations, press releases, and earnings call transcripts. to build a holistic, evidence-based view of an executive’s capabilities and playbook.
Sources
Verified Career History by ManagementTrack for Brian Blaser
Analysis of Capital Allocation, Performance, and Fundamentals across career by ManagementTrack
QuidelOrtho Corp. 10Q
QuidelOrtho Corp. 10K
QuidelOrtho Corp. Earnings Calls
QuidelOrtho Corp. Press Releases
Relevant Links
- For more information on ManagementTrack’s Data visit: https://paragonintel.com/management-track-data/
- For more information on ManagementTrack’s Interview & Analysis visit: https://paragonintel.com/management-track-reports/
- For more information on ManagementTrack’s Interview library visit: https://paragonintel.com/management-track-report-library/
- For more information on ManagementTrack’s Evasion Analysis visit: https://paragonintel.com/earnings-call-evasion/
- For more information on how ManagementTrack helps hedge funds and asset managers visit: https://paragonintel.com/
