Brandon Griffin joins Advantar Labs
Appointed as vp of sales and marketing
The San Diego, California, US-based company has an aggressive expansion plan following triple-digit growth in 2010.
Griffin will head the planning, implementation and management of Advantar’s sales and marketing strategy.
He was previously western regional vp of sales at RohnerChem, a Switzerland-based CMO, heading sales for large-scale custom synthesis of small molecules and novel monomers/biopolymers in the US.
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