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Thermo Fisher Scientific: Debora Spar, Patrick Durbin, Gianluca Pettiti

Sep 05, 2019

Debora Spar has been elected as a director of Thermo Fisher Scientific. She is a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School. Previously, she was president and CEO of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and before that, president of Barnard College. Spar holds a PhD in government from Harvard University and a BSc from Georgetown University.

Also, Patrick Durbin, senior vice president at Thermo Fisher Scientific, has decided to leave the company, effective Oct. 1. He will be replaced by Gianluca Pettiti, president of the firm's biosciences business. Prior to that, Pettiti was president of Thermo Fisher China.

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