Rainer Blair

Money Moves

As of May 2026: Architect of the Masimo acquisition

Eighteen months after activist investor Politan Capital ousted Joe Kiani from the board of the medical-device company he founded in 1989, Masimo shareholders voted to sell it to Danaher for $9.9 billion. Roughly 37 million shares favored the deal; 17,061 opposed it, and 14,035 abstained.

Updated May 31