Industry leader from PerkinElmer joins the Dotmatics and Insightful Science team to lead enterprise product vision, strategy, and roadmap

Bishop’s Stortford, UK and San Diego, CA, 24^th August 2021 — Dotmatics Ltd, an Insightful Science company and providers of the leading cloud-first platform for scientific research, today announced it has appointed Michael Swartz to lead its Enterprise Product Strategy and Management functions. Dotmatics is a leading enterprise B2B software company serving the global scientific R&D industry and is backed by Insight Partners, the leading global venture capital and private equity firm investing in high-growth technology and software ScaleUp companies.

Michael brings a distinguished track record with more than 20 years’ experience in scientific software development. His deep knowledge of the industry and scientific use cases has earned him a reputation for delivering exceptional value to customers. Prior to joining Dotmatics, Michael was the Vice President of Software Solutions and Strategy at PerkinElmer Informatics, where he led strategic planning and execution for the overall product portfolio including the Signals platform, ChemDraw and Spotfire. Michael has also served as Vice President of Knowledge Management at CambridgeSoft, a pioneer in the Electronic Lab Notebook market.

In his new role at Dotmatics, Michael will lead the product vision, development and delivery of products and marketing campaigns, as well as work collaboratively with company leadership to drive growth strategies

Michael Swartz, Senior Vice President Enterprise Product at Dotmatics, commented: “The scientific community has waited a long time for an organization with the necessary scope and resources to provide easy-to-deploy, end-to-end software solutions for all critical R&D functions. The combination of Dotmatics’ scientific workflow capabilities with industry-leading bioinformatics products like SnapGene and Geneious Prime and biostatistical analysis products like GraphPad Prism provide a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to transform the scientific research and R&D market. Our industry is at a pivotal stage of evolution with scientists requiring increasingly powerful and integrated informatics tools, and companies and research labs requiring a unified approach to data management to accelerate discovery. I am hugely excited to be working with fellow industry leaders at Dotmatics and Insightful Science to improve research and lab efficiency and ultimately help to make the world a healthier, cleaner, and better place to live.”

Thomas Swalla, CEO of Insightful Science, added: “We warmly welcome Michael to Dotmatics and look forward to having his valuable input in the business. His key insight into the market and users, combined with his metrics-driven approach to scalable success, will be instrumental in guiding our product marketing strategies. Attracting industry experts like Michael further endorses the strength of our growth trajectory and confirms our position as the leading cloud-first enterprise informatics solution provider.”

Recently, Dotmatics announced that it was acquired by Insightful Science and joined its growing portfolio of scientific research and data solutions serving more than 1 million global scientists. The combined company forms the Cloud for Scientific Discovery, an end-to-end platform with the world’s leading chemistry and biology solutions serving the broadest set of scientific domains. As a central, unified platform, the company stands apart in its ability to support data-driven research.

For further information on Dotmatics, please visit www.dotmatics.com.

About Dotmatics Ltd. www.dotmatics.com

Dotmatics is a scientific informatics software and services company that is driving the automation of laboratory workflows for discovery and innovation research – accelerating the journey towards full digitalization and the Lab of the Future.

With a mission to give scientists access to all of their data, all of the time, Dotmatics provides a unique portfolio of tools for fully automated, end-to-end workflows including data acquisition, knowledge management, data storage, enterprise querying and reporting, and data analytics and visualization. Through these comprehensive solutions, the Company is helping its customers to increase lab efficiency and make better informed decisions driven by all data.

Dotmatics’ customers include many of the world’s leading pharmaceutical, biotechnology, contract research, chemicals and materials companies. Insight into the challenges faced by these organizations enables Dotmatics to focus on delivering versatile and intuitive products and services that have potential to turn around the productivity deficit in research and accelerate development of novel drug candidates or products.

Dotmatics was founded in 2005 by two scientists from Merck Pharmaceuticals (MSD). Since then, it has built a strong and profitable business and in 2020 acquired BioBright, a Boston-based company automating secure data collection and analysis from laboratory and biomanufacturing environments. Dotmatics is now an expert team of over 300 scientists, software developers and engineers, and project managers. The Company is headquartered in the UK with offices in USA, Korea and Japan.

In April 2021, Dotmatics was acquired by Insightful Science and combined, are now the world’s largest cloud-based scientific research R&D platform.

 About Insightful Science

Insightful Science is a scientific software company that is enabling the Cloud for Scientific Discovery. From developing new personalized and preventive patient treatment solutions to reversing climate change — more than two million researchers at leading life science, biopharma and chemical and materials enterprises trust Insightful Science products to make the world a healthier, cleaner, and better place to live. Products within the Insightful Science portfolio were built by prominent scientists, and include GraphPad Prism, Geneious Prime and Geneious Biologics, Dotmatics, SnapGene, nQuery, Cytapex, and more.

Visit www.insightfulscience.com for more information about the company and its products.