Kieran T. Gallahue

Chairman of the Board

Kieran Gallahue is chairman and chief executive officer of CareFusion.

Previously, Kieran served as president, CEO and a director of ResMed, a global leader in medical equipment for treating, diagnosing and managing sleep-related respiratory disorders. Kieran joined ResMed in 2003 as president and COO, Americas, was promoted to the role of president and chief operating officer of ResMed Global in 2004 and CEO and director in 2008.

He has nearly 20 years of strategic, operational and corporate management experience in the healthcare industry, with deep expertise in the medical technologies field. Since 2007, he has also served on the board of Volcano Corp., a developer of products for interventional cardiology.

Prior to joining ResMed, Kieran held positions of increasing responsibility at Nanogen, a DNA research and medical diagnostics firm, and Instrumentation Laboratory, a leader in diagnostic instruments for critical care and hemostatsis. He has also held marketing, sales and financial roles at The Procter & Gamble Company and GE.

Kieran holds a bachelor's degree in economics and accounting from Rutgers University and a master's degree from Harvard Business School.