Press Release.

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Mike Duff
(703) 836-1360, Ext. 24
mduff@alssa.org

 

ALSSA Elects New Board of Directors and Chairman for 2010

Greg Herrema and Joe Keegan take on leadership positions

Alexandria, VA (October 5, 2009) – The Analytical and Life Science Systems Association (ALSSA) today elected Greg Herrema, President of the Analytical Instruments Group of Thermo Fisher Scientific, as Chairman of ALSSA for a two-year term during 2010 and 2011 at the association's Annual Business Meeting. Mr. Herrema served as ALSSA's Vice Chair for the past year.

Mr. Herrema succeeds Art Caputo, President of Waters, who served as ALSSA Chairman since April 2007. Mr. Caputo's service on the ALSSA Board will continue as he becomes Immediate Past Chairman. ALSSA members also elected Joseph D. Keegan, President & CEO of ForteBio as Vice Chair/Chair-Elect of ALSSA.

In addition, six new members were elected to the ALSSA Board of Directors:

  • Kevin Chance, Executive Vice President & COO, Dionex Corporation
  • Isy Goldwasser, Chief Executive Officer, Symyx Technologies, Inc.
  • Tim Harkness, Chief Executive Officer, Cell Biosciences, Inc.
  • Laura Lauman, President, Mass Spectrometry Systems Division, Life Technologies Corporation
  • Mike McMullen, President, Chemical Analysis Group, Agilent Technologies Inc.
  • Eric Roman, President, Americas Sales & Services, GE Healthcare Life Sciences

Nine directors were re-elected to the ALSSA Board including:

  • Briar Alpert, President, BioTek Instruments, Inc.
  • Thomas W. Bachmann, Chief Executive Officer, TECAN Group Ltd.
  • Andrew W. Boorn, President, MDS Analytical Technologies
  • Michael J. Collins, President & CEO, CEM Corporation
  • Susan A. Evans, Vice President & General Manager, Beckman Coulter Genomics
  • Jay Flatley, President & CEO, Illumina, Inc.
  • Robert F. Friel, Chairman, President & CEO, PerkinElmer, Inc.
  • William A. Linton, Chairman & CEO, Promega Corporation
  • Peer M. Schatz, Chief Executive Officer, QIAGEN GmbH

For more information regarding ALSSA's Board of Directors contact Mike Duff at 703-836-1360. More information regarding ALSSA can be found at www.alssa.org.

ALSSA is the primary trade association for companies that develop and market technologies and solutions that enable scientific discoveries worldwide and applications which benefit society and lead to advances in healthcare, industrial innovation, and a safe and clean environment

ALSSA members provide the "tools" and "solutions" essential to conduct research, testing, discovery and product development in a wide range of industries and applications including:

  • Pharmaceuticals and Drug Discovery
  • University and Scientific Research
  • Biotechnology Forensics
  • Chemicals and Chemical Processing
  • Molecular Diagnostics Testing
  • Food Safety
  • Medical and Life Science Research

 

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