Feb 24, 2022 / 01:45PM GMT
Patrick Bernard Donnelly - Citigroup Inc., Research Division - Senior Analyst
Great. Thank you all for joining us at the Citi Healthcare Conference here. I'm Patrick Donnelly, the tools and diagnostics analyst at Citi. Excited to have Prahlad Singh, CEO of PerkinElmer with us today. We have about 40 minutes. If anyone has any questions, they want me to ask, feel free to e-mail them over, and I will try to get them in.
Questions and Answers:
Patrick Bernard Donnelly - Citigroup Inc., Research Division - Senior AnalystAnd Prahlad, maybe to open up kind of at a high level, you guys have done obviously a bunch of acquisitions, I think, 9 acquisitions in the last year or so. Can you just talk about the strategy behind these deals? And then more broadly, how you're shaping the company for the future since you became CEO a couple of years ago?
Prahlad R. Singh - PerkinElmer, Inc. - CEO, President & Director
Thank you, Patrick. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, everyone. When I came to PerkinElmer about 7