From Rhodesia's guerrilla war to heading Australia's lab giant

Liam WalshReporter

Sep 7, 2019 – 12.00am

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Raj Naran is one of the few top chief executives in Australia who has seen combat.

The future head of laboratory testing giant ALS was then 18, and had been conscripted to fight in the vicious Rhodesian Bush War in the late 1970s.

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