Symyx Appoints New President of High Productivity Research

John Senaldi Chosen to Lead Business Unit Focused on Automation R&D Tools and Solutions

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Symyx Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:SMMX – News) today announced the appointment of John Senaldi as senior vice president of Symyx and president of its High Productivity Research (HPR) business unit. Symyx HPR delivers premium microscale, parallel experimentation tools, along with supporting services and software, to the life sciences, chemicals and energy, and consumer and industrial products industries.

Mr. Senaldi served most recently as division manager of the Protein Function Division within Bio-Rad Laboratories. Prior to Bio-Rad, he held a number of successful roles in general management, marketing, and business development at Molecular Devices Corporation and Becton Dickinson and Co. In addition, his experience includes roles in engineering and manufacturing management with General Electric Co. and several small companies.

“We look forward to John being a significant contributor as our HPR unit continues to focus on providing labs with premium automation research and development tools and solutions,” said Isy Goldwasser, chief executive officer of Symyx. “John’s background and success make him the ideal person to lead this effort.”

Mr. Senaldi holds an MSEE from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an MBA from Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.

Symyx R&D tools help scientists to perform automated experiments 10 to 100 times faster, producing richer, more accessible data with technology encompassing robotics, reactors, parallel analysis and general automation equipment.

About Symyx

Symyx Technologies (Nasdaq:SMMX – News) enables companies in life sciences, chemicals and energy, and consumer and industrial products to transform scientific R&D and achieve extraordinary breakthroughs in productivity and return on investment. Symyx scientific information management enables scientists to design, execute, analyze, and report experimental results faster, more easily, and less expensively. Symyx microscale, parallel experimentation enables a single scientist to rapidly explore a broad experimental space and develop comprehensive data sets in days — not weeks or months. Information about Symyx, including reports and other information filed by Symyx with the Securities and Exchange Commission, is available at www.symyx.com.

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