Picarro Strengthens Management Team With Two Key Additions

SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 10 — In response to robust growth in commercial sales of the company’s unique trace gas analyzers, Picarro has strengthened its sales and marketing team with the addition of two new executives. Specifically, Iain Green Ph.D. has joined the company as Director of Marketing, while Mark Davis will serve in the role of Vice President of Sales.

Iain Green has over 10 years of experience as a marketing executive in the field of analytical instruments. Before joining Picarro, he was Senior Marketing Manager of NMR products for Varian, and has considerable depth is marketing and sales of spectroscopy instruments. He holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of London.

Mark Davis has held various executive and sales leadership positions in analytical instrumentation since 1989. Most recently, he served as Director of US Sales for Hach Company, a division of Danaher Corporation. With $200M in US sales, this group manufactures and distributes analytical instruments and reagents used to verify and control the quality of water in municipal and industrial markets. Davis received his M.S. in Management of Technology from Georgia Institute of Technology.

Picarro’s trace gas analyzers are based on WS-CRDS (Wavelength-Scanned Cavity Ring Down Spectroscopy), a time-based technology that measures gas concentrations with unprecedented performance and ease of use. “Our WS-CRDS spectrometers are a disruptive technology for trace gas analysis useful in applications as diverse as atmospheric and environmental monitoring, green energy development and semiconductor fabrication,” notes Michael Woelk, Picarro CEO. “With the additional leadership of Iain and Mark, we’re further strengthened to launch great products, build enduring customer relationships, and scale global commercial operations.”

Picarro, Inc. is a privately held company dedicated to developing instrumentation for the highest sensitivity, precision and accuracy measurements of specific molecules of interest in environmental analyses, process monitoring, and emissions control. The company is a leader in wavelength scanned cavity ring down spectroscopy (WS-CRDS) technology with eight exclusive licenses to Stanford University patents and nine of its own on WS-CRDS extensions. Visit us at http://www.picarro.com.

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