Norgren, a specialist in pneumatic motion and fluid control technologies, which is a division of UK-based international engineering group IMI, has made four senior appointments within its global Life Sciences division.
Joe Stupfel is the new Global Sector Head for Life Sciences, leading overall strategy, focusing on global customers in analytical instrumentation, medical devices and diagnostic instrumentation.
Stupfel joins Norgren from IDEX Corporation, where he was Vice-President of Marketing and Research Development Engineering.
Mike Whalley
Heading up commercial operations in Europe is Mike Whalley as European Sector Head for Life Sciences. He has extensive experience within the sector in a variety of senior R&D, marketing and business development roles, most recently for Becton Dickinson Diagnostics.
Two key appointments have also been made within Analytical Flow Products (AFP), acquired by IMI last September.
Hayley Crowe
Hayley Crowe has become Vice-President, Global Business Development at AFP. She joins the company from Perkin Elmer, where she was Director of Global Mass Spectometry Commercialisation, Prior to that, she was Business Development Manager for Waters Corporation, and has also worked for Pfizer and Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research.
Completing the new line-up is AFP’s Director of Business Development for the Americas, Joe Rotter.
Joe Rotter
Rotter joins the company from IDEX, where he held a number of key roles, culminating in his appointment as Market Manager for the Health & Science business unit. He has also worked as a Product Manager and Applications Engineer for Entegris.
Robert Guerra, President, Norgren Americas, commented: 'These are exciting times for Norgren in the life sciences sector with many innovations being brought to market and an ambitious growth plan in place. These four new appointments will each play a key role in delivering that growth, drawing on their extensive commercial and academic experience.'
