Stan Fronczkowski joins Strategic Diagnostics as chief financial officer after 29-year career with Keystone Foods; Faye Coggins joins SDI as executive director- marketing
Strategic Diagnostics has announced that Stan Fronczkowski joined the company as chief financial officer effective 15 January 2007.
Fronczkowski joins SDI after 29 years with Keystone Foods.
He began his career with Keystone in 1978 rising to the position vice president, international finance in 1988, and over the next ten years supported Keystone's growth across multiple companies on four continents.
In 1998, Fronczkowski became COO for Keystone Europe, Middle East and Africa with full responsibility for the operating results of this business group.
Following Keystone's reorganisation to strategic business units in Europe and North America, Fronczkowski assumed his most recent assignment as Keystone's vice president for finance, Asia-Pacific.
Matthew Knight, the company's president and chief executive officer, commented: "Stan is a tremendous addition to the SDI management team.
"Throughout his career, Stan has consistently demonstrated his ability to lead and support a growing operation.
"He is a senior manager with the demonstrated ability to bring process and discipline to all aspects of our business, and to coach all levels of management in the pursuit of enhanced performance and operational excellence.
"His long record of success at Keystone, including both operations and financial management, will provide tremendous value to SDI.
"We appreciate the assistance our board provided in the search for a capable executive to take SDI to the next level".
Stan Fronczkowski added: "I'm excited to be joining SDI at this particular time in the company's history.
"New technologies provide an exciting opportunity for the company to seek sustainable and reproducible growth, and I look forward to building on my experience in supporting this growth".
As a separate item, SDI also announced that Faye Coggins has also joined the company as executive director - marketing.
Coggins is a highly experienced marketing leader with over 30 years in the life sciences industry.
Coggins spent 20 years in the specialty diagnostics business of DuPont where she advanced through a series of regional and global sales and marketing positions.
Most recently she has been VP marketing for the life science research division of Fisher Biosciences, and executive director, marketing, North America, for Qiagen.
"As the marketing function at SDI grows and develops, it was very important to find someone with strong leadership credentials across all marketing disciplines," commented Knight.
"In addition, the company's investment in antibody technology and the Genomic Antibodies platform is taking aim on the rapidly emerging needs of the proteomics market, and the strong life sciences experience that Faye brings will be extremely valuable as we continue our commercialization and growth initiatives.
"The additions of Stan Fronczkowski and Faye Coggins add significant strength to our management team.
"We are fortunate to have both the business opportunity, and the technology platform that allows us to attract professionals of their calibre."
