Bill Linton, chairman and CEO of Promega, has been elected chairman of the Analytical and Life Science Systems Association, the molecular-biology tools industry trade group said last month.
Linton succeeds Joe Keegan of Molecular Devices.
ALSSA also elected as vice chairman/chair-elect Peter Coggins, president of PerkinElmer Life and Analytical Sciences.
In addition, five new members were elected to the ALSSA board: Lukas Braunschweiler, president and CEO of Dionex; Benjamin Bulkley, senior vice president of commercial operations of Invitrogen; Joel McComb, president of discovery systems of GE Healthcare; Brian McKernan, CEO of Agencourt Bioscience; and Volker Pfahlert, head of Roche Applied Science.