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Meridian Bioscience: Tony Serafini-Lamanna

May 20, 2020

Meridian Bioscience promoted Tony Serafini-Lamanna to executive VP of diagnostics, passing responsibility of the diagnostics division from CEO Jack Kenny and making Serafini-Lamanna an officer of the company. He was previously the global VP and general manager of diagnostics, a position he held since April 2018. The promotion became effective May 18. 

Before joining Meridian, Serafini-Lamanna worked at Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics as general manager for diagnostics Canada and VP of marketing for North America. 

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