John Linnan has been appointed vice president of sales at Beverly, Mass.-based Agencourt Bioscience. Linnan comes to Agencourt from Applied Biosystems, where he most recently worked as district sales manager for New England. Prior to holding this position, Linnan was the regional sales manager for New England, mid-Atlantic, and Eastern Canada for Perspective Biosystems of Hertford, UK. He has also worked at Abbott Diagnostics in various sales positions.