The new year has seen multiple new appointments, with moves involving staff at BioTek, AdvanDx, Brookfield, Jai, Molecular Profiles, ClinPhone, Good Products, Adept Scientific, and RTS Life Science
BioTek Instruments has appointed Gabriele Neumann as its European contract sales manager, based in Germany.
Neumann's responsibilities include the identification and development of value-added sales for all of BioTek's contract and OEM customer partners.
She has over ten years of life science, technical product management and marketing experience in laboratory instrumentation and diagnostics, having spent three years at the University of Stuttgart's Institute of Technical Biochemistry and seven years at Berthold Detection Systems.
Meanwhile, AdvanDx has named Else Beth Trautner, a former executive vice president of Dako, as vice president of sales and marketing.
Trautner will aggressively drive the global adoption of AdvanDx's vitro molecular diagnostic products to advance the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of infectious pathogens.
Still in the USA, ASD has promoted Bob Faus to vice president engineering, and Tom Brown to vice president sales and channel management.
These are the first VP positions in the company's history.
Faus has been with ASD for over ten years, serving as the director of engineering; he holds five patents and a BSEE from Kansas State.
Brown has been with ASD for over four years as director of sales and marketing, before which he spent 23 years with Perkin-Elmer.
Brookfield Engineering Laboratories has made two recent appointments, with Vincent Hebert and Eric Chiang both becoming senior sales engineers.
Hebert is also managing Brookfield's in-house and regional educational programmes, while Chiang also serves on the Brookfield training team, teaching the Practical Course On Viscosity Measurements and the Applied Course On Viscosity Test Methods.
Jai, a manufacturer of industrial video cameras for machine vision, defence, and traffic applications, has announced the appointment of Steve Kinney as director of technical pre-sales and support for the Americas region.
Kinney has spent more than ten years in the industrial camera business, in a variety of product management and technical support roles.
Most recently, Kinney has served as product manager for products designed and manufactured in Jai's US facility.
The month has seen a flurry of moves in the Nottingham, UK, area, including multiple appointments at Molecular Profiles.
The contract researcher announces the appointment of Rob Whittock as associate director of materials characterisation.
He will provide technical direction and leadership to the materials characterisation team and support independent experts across the UK, Europe and USA.
Molecular Profiles also announces the expansion of its scientific panel with the appointment of industry guru Professor Lisbeth Illum.
Illum has over 25 years experience in the pharmaceutical industry, and has held a variety of academic, editorial and professional positions including consulting to several multinational pharmaceutical companies.
She will also be the president of the Controlled Release Society in 2008.
Two further additions to the Molecular Profiles team are Mike Fanfarillo, who joins as operations director, and Robert Sherry who becomes associate director in pharmaceutics.
Fanfarillo is responsible for the management of research projects and the development of the technical team, and is also a study director on numerous patent related projects.
Bob Sherry is an expert in product dose forms, and is responsible for directing technical studies to resolve complex formulation issues and for developing collaborations with academic and industrial experts.
Also in the city of Nottingham, UK, clinical technology supplier ClinPhone has appointed a new chief operating officer.
Vincent Renz has over 26 years of experience in the information technology industry, specifically in the development and delivery of technology driven products and services.
In his role as COO, Renz will coordinate all of the global operating groups that are responsible for the development, delivery and support of ClinPhone's clinical trial technology services to customers.
He was previously executive vice president and chief technology officer with eResearch Technology Nottingham-based Good Products, a provider of enterprise content management (ECM) for the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industries, announces that former ClinPhone senior VP of sales and marketing Patrick Hughes has joined the company to spearhead US commercial activity.
Hughes will be based at the Good Products North American headquarters in Irvine, California, and will be responsible for driving commercial growth and introducing new products to the US market.
Technical computing specialist Adept Scientific has made a number of recent appointments.
Bakhtiar Choudhury joins as technical sales specialist, coming from National Instruments.
He will be instrumental in introducing a range of opportunities for existing and new Adept customers and will be at the forefront of the company's customer liaison programmes.
The company has also appointed Daniel Hadji-Ristic as Daq technical support specialist.
Hadji-Ristic joins Adept having recently completed a PhD in physics during which he designed and implemented a LabView-based control and data acquisition system for thermo-electric experiments on semiconductor structures, including the development of LabView drivers.
At a more senior level, Adept's general manager, Michael Pisapia has been promoted to the company's board, joining joint-owners and founders Paul and Elaine Bragg, and Mike Willis.
"With his wealth of international experience Mike was a natural choice for the Board," commented managing director Paul Bragg.
Pisapia is well-known internationally within test and measurement and process control.
As an electronics engineer, he spent eight years developing guided weapon and missile tracking systems for local defence contractor BAe Systems.
Surrey NanoSystems has appointed Duncan Cooper as its director of sales and marketing.
With 25 years experience in semiconductor industry, he brings a wealth of know-how to the young company as its new breed of tools for growing carbon nanotubes (CNTs) at low temperatures moves from R+D labs to commercial fabrication.
Cambridge Research Biochemicals has announced the appointment of two new members to its board of directors.
Peter White joins as consultant technical director, bringing a wealth of experience in the peptide arena - his benchmark guides to Fmoc peptide synthesis having international renown.
Moharem El Gihani is appointed business development director, and will help meet the increasing demand for innovative research products such as stable-labelled peptides for absolute quantitation of protein expression.
And finally for this round-up, RTS Life Science announces the appointment of Mike Pollard to the newly created role of technical sales manager - drug delivery automation.
Pollard has worked for RTS Life Science for the past 12 years, most recently holding the position of product manager for one of its compound storage and retrieval products.
