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Bio-Rad Laboratories: Simon May, Annette Tumolo

Dec 17, 2021

Bio-Rad Laboratories has appointed Simon May as executive VP and president of the firm's life science group, effective Jan. 4, 2022. He succeeds Annette Tumolo, who will retire from this role. May led Bio-Rad’s digital biology group for two years, and has also served as SVP of global commercial operations for the Americas. He joined Bio-Rad in 2014 as VP of North America sales and service for life science, and also previously held leadership roles for seven years at Thermo Fisher Scientific.

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