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Thermo Fisher Scientific: Joseph Holmes, Peter Hornstra

Sep 14, 2020

Joseph Holmes has been elected as VP and chief accounting officer of Thermo Fisher Scientific, effective March 31, 2021. He will succeed Peter Hornstra, who will retire from the company March 31. Holmes is currently senior director of technical accounting at Thermo Fisher, a position he assumed when he joined the company in 2017. Previously, he was director of technical accounting and reporting at St. Jude Medical, which was acquired by Abbott Laboratories in 2017.

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