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Meet Our Members
ALDA membership is designed for organizations that directly develop, manufacture, or enable the technologies driving modern biological discovery, innovation, and clinical insight.
Examples of eligible companies include:
- Analytical and life science instrument manufacturers
- Reagent, consumable, and assay chemistry suppliers
- Diagnostic and molecular testing companies
- Automation, robotics, and sample-handling solution providers
- Software and data analytics firms serving R&D or clinical workflows (as commercial products or platforms, not service-only models)
- Next-generation technology companies
- OEM or System Integration Companies
ALDA meetings, market data, and surveys are tailored specifically for CEOs, presidents, and senior executives of member companies.
PLEASE READ: ALDA Membership Segments, our Membership Guidelines, and our Attendance Guidelines.
View a high-level summary of benefits.
We ask that all members adhere to our Code of Conduct: ALDA’s powerful network offers opportunities for connection and collaboration within our industry. By joining ALDA, members agree to uphold and preserve the unique nature of this executive network by refraining from overtly soliciting sales for their company’s products or services to other members.
Your membership dues are based on your company’s most recent annual global revenues in analytical and life science systems and diagnostics, including those of all relevant divisions, business units, and subsidiaries.
In addition to annual dues, member companies pay registration fees for certain meetings. For most organizations, these fees typically total $5,000–$7,000 USD per year.
For ALDA’s purposes, “diagnostics” includes revenues from molecular diagnostics, companion diagnostics, and emerging or next-generation diagnostic technologies, such as cellular diagnostics.
| Annual Revenues (in US Dollars) | Annual Dues |
|---|---|
| Under $10 Million | $2,750 |
| $10-25 Million | $5,750 |
| $25-50 Million | $12,000 |
| $50-100 Million | $17,000 |
| $100-300 Million | $24,000 |
| $300-750 Million | $33,000 |
| $750 Million-$2 Billion | $36,000 |
| Over $2 Billion | $39,000 |
ALDA’s meetings, benchmarking data, and strategic programs are exclusively for C-suite executives, presidents, and senior decision-makers, providing a confidential, trusted space to share insights, understand global market forces, and shape the future direction of the industry.
We offer the opportunity to connect the industry and its leaders—we’re glad to assist in making introductions between one member company and another.
Senior Executive Conferences
ALDA’s Senior Executive Conferences are the premier gatherings for CEOs, presidents, and senior leaders shaping the analytical instruments, life science tools, and diagnostics industries. Held twice a year, these meetings deliver the strategic clarity, industry foresight, and executive connections that define ALDA’s value.
Our Spring Conference takes place in Boston every May, while our Fall Conference is held on the West Coast of the US each October. ALDA has also expanded internationally, hosting highly successful conferences in Zurich (2022 and 2025) and London (2024), with additional global events planned as our community continues to grow.
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Recent ALDA Semi-Annual Conferences Topics:
- 2025 Fall: The Future of Pharma: Strategic Priorities Driving Innovation
- 2025 Spring: Advances in Longevity: From GLP-1s to Neurodegenerative Disease
- 2024 Fall: Innovations in Multi-Omics
- 2024 Spring: Trends in Oncology
- 2023 Fall: Leveraging Data & Artificial Intelligence
- 2023 Spring: Spatial Biology: A New Dimension
- 2022 Fall: Trends in Pharma
- 2022 Spring: Unlocking Opportunities in Cell and Gene Therapies
Other Meetings
- Annual Virtual Meeting for Senior Marketing & Sales Executives
- Annual Virtual Meeting for Senior Customer Service & Support Executives
- Annual Virtual Meeting for Senior HR Executives
- Two Regional Senior Executive Dinners – one in Boston and one in the San Francisco Bay Area
- Trade Show Breakfast Meetings, including ADLM, analytica, ESCMID (formerly ECCMID), and SLAS
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Powerful Networking
ALDA conferences offer unparalleled opportunities to connect with senior executives across the industry.
In addition to our semi-annual conferences, ALDA hosts breakfast meetings at industry trade shows and annual dinner events on both US coasts, creating high-level forums to connect with peers and international leaders.
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Market Data
ALDA sponsors four market data reports.
1. The Industry Market Assessment Report is published quarterly and sent to all ALDA members. The cost is included in your annual dues. The report contains a high-level overview of the global market and 15 product/market segments and is designed to complement your internal market research. Official and alternate representatives automatically receive this report.
The following three reports are available only to participants:
2. The Global Lab Instruments Bookings Report tracks global bookings (orders) on a quarterly basis for about a dozen laboratory analytical instrument systems including LC, GC, LC-MS, GC-MS, UV/Vis, AA, FTIR, and ICP products. ALDA jointly sponsors this report with instrument associations in Japan and Europe.
3. The Microplate Reader Sales Report tracks global sales on a semi-annual basis for three categories of microplate reader products: single-mode microplate readers, multi-mode microplate readers, and washers.
4. The Bio-Research Reagents Market Report tracks sales on a semi-annual basis for several categories of life science reagents and consumables. The report is offered on a subscription basis through the ABA Audits firm in the UK, and ALDA subsidizes a portion of the participation fee for our members.
Compensation Survey
Annually, ALDA members are invited to participate in the Pearl Meyer CHiPS One World Total Compensation Survey at a discounted rate.
The CHiPs One World survey reports positions based on salary, short-term and long-term incentives, total cash/target and direct compensation, and global merit increases.
Participants receive an all-participants report, a custom peer group report, and an ALDA-only report, along with a full year of 24/7 access to CHiPs online with free on-demand features.
The CHiPS One World also offers one-to-one account support through their dedicated team of account managers. This customized approach allows ALDA members to go beyond the data to understand how the survey results apply to their organization and its unique compensation needs.
How to Join
Applicants for membership in ALDA must be actively engaged in our Member Segments and must fit our Membership Guidelines.
If you are interested in learning more about the association and how to join, please contact Kerrie Peterson, Director of Membership.
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Applicants for membership in ALDA must be actively engaged in our Member Segments and must fit our Membership Guidelines.
Please email Kerrie Peterson, Director of Membership, for more information or call (703) 647-6214.
Thank you for your interest!
About Us
ALDA (Analytical, Life Science & Diagnostics Association) is the nonprofit trade association for the global life science tools, analytical instruments, and diagnostics industry. Our members develop the technologies that power discovery: from sequencing, mass spectrometry, imaging, and automation to molecular and clinical diagnostics that guide patient care. Almost every major breakthrough in scientific research, drug development, food safety, environmental monitoring, and precision medicine depends on the instruments, reagents, software, and platforms created by ALDA member companies.
We exist to support the senior-most leaders of these organizations. ALDA’s meetings, benchmarking data, and strategic programs are built exclusively for C-suite executives, presidents, and senior decision-makers, providing a trusted space to share insights, understand global market forces, and shape the future direction of the industry.
Our membership spans the full breadth of the sector: from the world’s largest multinational suppliers to emerging growth companies bringing new technologies to market. Collectively, ALDA members represent approximately 75-80% of global revenues in the analytical instruments and life science tools sectors. Our diagnostics members lead the development of molecular diagnostics, companion diagnostics, and next-generation testing technologies that define modern clinical practice. ALDA is proud to have 9 of the 10 top analytical, life science, and diagnostics companies with tools and platforms as a part of our community.
For over 35 years, ALDA has served as the industry’s forum for strategic dialogue, peer connection, and executive-level intelligence. Headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, we work to strengthen the companies that enable scientific progress and, ultimately, improve human health worldwide.
ALDA member companies are at the center of the more than $140 billion global market for life science, analytical, and diagnostics tools. Our members develop the instrumentation, reagents, consumables, assays, software, and integrated platforms that enable:
- Life science research
- Drug discovery and development
- Food safety and environmental testing
- Quality assurance and quality control
- Clinical and molecular diagnostics
Because ALDA companies operate across the full scientific and diagnostic spectrum, they have a uniquely comprehensive view of how innovation moves from the research bench to the clinic. This perspective helps accelerate the development and adoption of advanced diagnostic technologies, bringing better tools to scientists, faster answers to clinicians, and improved outcomes to patients worldwide.
Officers
Jacob Thaysen
Chair
Chief Executive Officer
Illumina
Alexandra Gatzemeyer
Vice Chair
Member of the Executive Board
Sartorius AG
Patrick Kaltenbach
Immediate Past Chair
Chief Executive Officer
Mettler-Toledo
Mike Copps
President & Chief Executive Officer
Board of Directors
Udit Batra
President & Chief Executive Officer
Waters Corporation
Thierry Bernard
Chief Executive Officer
QIAGEN
Steve Conly
Worldwide President
BD Biosciences
Jon DiVincenzo
President & Chief Operating Officer
Bio-Rad
Tim Harkness
Chief Executive Officer
Unchained Labs
Kim Kelderman
President & Chief Executive Officer
Bio-Techne
Frank Laukien
Chief Executive Officer
Bruker
Bill Linton
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Promega
Beat Lüthi
Chief Executive Officer
CTC Analytics AG
Karen Madden
Chief Technology Officer
MilliporeSigma
Padraig McDonnell
Chief Executive Officer
Agilent
Greg Milosevich
Executive Vice President, Life Sciences
Danaher
Serge Saxonov
Chief Executive Officer
10x Genomics
Melissa Sherman
Chief Executive Officer
MOBILion
Dan Shine
Senior Vice President & President, Analytical Instruments
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Prahlad Singh
President & Chief Executive Officer
Revvity
Meetings
All ALDA meetings feature strategic presentations and are designed to facilitate networking opportunities. Customers and users present insights about their evolving needs for our industry’s products and services.
ALDA offers a variety of meetings:
- ALDA’s Senior Executive Conferences are the premier gatherings for CEOs, presidents, and senior leaders shaping the analytical instruments, life science tools, and diagnostics industries. Held twice a year, these meetings deliver the strategic clarity, industry foresight, and executive connections that define ALDA’s value.
Each conference centers on a timely, high-impact theme and features world-class speakers—visionary business thinkers, influential policymakers, and leading academic and industry voices—who illuminate the trends, technologies, and market dynamics that matter most to our members.Our Spring Conference takes place in Boston every May, while our Fall Conference is held on the West Coast of the United States each October. ALDA has also expanded internationally, hosting highly successful conferences in Zurich (2022 and 2025) and London (2024), with additional global events planned as our community continues to grow.
These members-only programs give senior executives space to gain insight, step back from the day-to-day, and connect with peers to help shape what’s ahead for our industry.
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»View our Membership Guidelines
»View our Membership Segments
»View our most recent conference program
»View a list of our semi-annual meeting topics
- Annual virtual meetings for senior marketing and sales executives, senior service and support executives, and HR executives.
- Two regional Senior Executive Dinners – one in Boston and one in the San Francisco Bay Area.
- Executive Breakfasts at trade shows, including ADLM, AMP, analytica, ESCMID (formerly ECCMID), and SLAS.
“While the meeting content focuses on learning more about the scientific trends [which] help us as leaders to stay current, the meetings help with networking and understanding the various companies and actors in the industry.”
Rainer Blair, President & Chief Executive Officer, Danaher Corporation
Market Data & Surveys
ALDA connects our members with unique industry insights. We offer a suite of market data reporting and compensation surveys for members and their companies to leverage.
All of ALDA’s surveys are conducted by third-party, neutral partners, so your data is always private. With questions about our suite of market data and surveys, please contact us.
Along with our third-party partners, ALDA produces five market data reports that our members use to benchmark operations against industry data and averages and broaden their perspective on global users and markets.
These reports provide valuable insight independent of one another; they are each separate, nuanced reports. Examples of staff at ALDA member companies who find these reports valuable are data scientists, market intelligence strategists, and global commercial forecasting managers.
Industry Market Assessment Report - All Members
Summary: using public data and proprietary data-collecting methodology, this is a high-level overview of the global market and 15 product sectors, including life science instruments and reagents, cell analysis, liquid chromatography and mass spectroscopy, and lab automation.
Designed for: Senior executives at all ALDA member companies.
Frequency: Quarterly, 6-8 weeks following the end of the calendar quarter.
Who receives the data and how: ALDA member company representatives and any additional executives or staff added to the company membership who wish to receive this report. The report is sent via email in PDF format.
Cost: Complimentary with ALDA membership.
Produced by: Strategic Directions International (SDi).
Emerging Markets Report - Laboratory Analytical Instrumentation
Summary: The report tracks several aggregated product categories for a number of emerging markets, including:
Designed for: Senior executives at ALDA member companies.
Frequency: Annual
Who receives the data and how: Report participants receive the data via email in PDF & Excel format. To apply to be a participant in the data submission, please email ALDA President & CEO Mike Copps.
Cost: Complimentary for ALDA member participants.
Produced by: Withum, Smith & Brown
Jointly sponsored by: ALDA, JAIMA (Japan Analytical Instruments Manufacturers Association), and EUROM II.
Global Lab Instrumentation Bookings Report - Analytical Products
Summary: In this nuanced report, bookings are divided into North America, Europe, Japan, China, India, Latin America, and rest of world (ROW). Bookings reflect when an order is shipped rather than placed. Several report participants operate in global markets; all companies report their bookings in U.S. dollars. There are 12 sectors covered in the report including total laboratory analytical business, gas chromatographs, and liquid chromatograph-mass spectrometers.
12 sectors covered include:
- Total Laboratory Analytical Business
- Gas Chromatographs
- Gas Chromatograph-Mass Spectrometers
- Liquid Chromatographs
- Liquid Chromatograph-Mass Spectrometers
- Ultra Violet/Visible/Near Infrared Spectrophotometers
- Atomic Absorption Spectrometers
- Fourier Transform Infrared Instruments
- Total Organic Carbon Analyzers
- Fluorescence Spectrophotometers
- Inductively Coupled Plasma Systems
- Inductively Coupled Plasma–Mass Spectrometers
Designed for: Senior executives at ALDA member companies that provide analytical products.
Frequency: Calendar quarterly basis
Who receives the data and how: Report participants receive the data via email in PDF format.
Cost: Complimentary for ALDA member participants. To apply to be a participant in the data submission, please email ALDA President & CEO, Mike Copps.
Produced by: Withum, Smith & Brown
Jointly sponsored by: ALDA, JAIMA (Japan Analytical Instruments Manufacturers Association), and EUROM II.
Bio-Research Reagents Market Report - Life Science Applications
Summary: The report covers sales of products in 14 groups, including:
- Genomics
- Proteomics
- Cell Research
- General Biochemicals
- Specialty Research
- Amplification & PCR
- Real Time
- Labeling & Detection
- Antibodies
- Protein, Enzymes & Peptides
- Inhibitors
- Substrates & Receptors
- Cell Research Kits & Specialty Kits
- Assay Kits
Designed for: Senior executives at ALDA member companies who participate in these product segments.
Frequency: Semi-annually
Who receives the data and how: Report participants receive the data via email in PDF format.
Cost: ALDA members receive a discount. Prices range for companies based on products.
Produced by: ABA Audits Ltd., United Kingdom
Microplate Reader Report - Analytical Products
Summary: The report covers three product segments and contains data for the current period and past periods. Product segments include:
- Single-mode: combining scintillation, fluorescence, and luminescence
- Multi-mode
- Washers
Designed for: Senior executives at ALDA member companies that produce microplate readers.
Frequency: Semi-annually
Who receives the data and how: Report participants receive the data via email in spreadsheet format. To apply to be a participant in the data submission, please email ALDA President & CEO, Mike Copps.
Cost: Complimentary for ALDA member participants.
Produced by: Withum, Smith & Brown
ALDA members are invited to participate in two annual compensation surveys, both open in April, with final reporting provided in July. Participating ALDA member companies receive tailored compensation data for employees across their entire organization, from executives to entry-level.
Produced by: Pearl Meyer, a leading consultant on executive compensation and compensation surveys.
How to participate: ALDA and Pearl Meyer send email communications when the surveys open. The Pearl Meyer team coordinates participation.
CHiPS One World Total Compensation Survey
- Provides valuable benchmarking data for positions across all segments of the organization (R&D, Sales, Finance, HR, etc).
- Reports out detailed base salary, short-term incentive, and long-term incentive data.
- Also includes a comprehensive section focusing on compensation Policies and Practices.
Executive Compensation and Benchmarking Survey
- Provides data for over 80 executive-level positions at the top level of the organization.
- Detailed base salary, total cash, and total direct compensation data is provided.
- Includes an online survey questionnaire that collects data on a wide range of executive compensation programs and perquisites.
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