Marco Piccinini, Asaho Takei

Fluidigm has appointed Marco Piccinini as commercial lead for Europe and Asaho Takei as general manager in Japan, Fluidigm President and CEO Chris Linthwaite announced during the company's Q1 earnings call this week. Piccinini has held senior commercial leadership positions at PerkinElmer, Applied Biosystems, Life Technologies, and Thermo Fisher Scientific. Takei previously worked for Illumina for more than 15 years.