When your house is on fire who do you call? The person who has read about putting out fires and maybe even put out a garbage can fire or someone who has actually put out mulit-alarm large fires?
Novartis and Tina chose the former. LH has had and will have zero impact on turning things around and little impact on things like Aetna and Aqua. The fact is she comes from an area that has traditionally seen very weak competition -- back when she made her #s for sure. Maybe now it is heating up but still Puerto Rico is a gold mine for Aqua and other technologies as docs there are willing to order anything. So, you have a VP of Marketing and national sales director who have how much expereince turning around underperfoming business units?