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Steven Verhoeven

Dec 19, 2017

Steven Verhoeven has been named CEO of Hasselt, Belgium-based PCR interpretation software vendor UgenTec, effective Jan. 15, taking over from Wouter Uten. Company founder Uten will transition into the role of chief operational officer. Verhoeven has been head of genomics software for Agilent Technologies in Lexington, Massachusetts, since 2015. Prior to that job, he was COO of Belgian genomics software company Cartagenia.

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