Alpha Teknova, Inc. Appoints Ken Gelhaus as Chief Commercial Officer
November 10, 2021 at 05:30 pm IST
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Alpha Teknova, Inc. announced the appointments of Ken Gelhaus as Chief Commercial Officer and Jennifer Henry as Senior Vice President, Marketing. Gelhaus has more than 15 years of experience in the life sciences and diagnostics industries. Most recently, he served as Vice President/General Manager at BD Biosciences, where he was responsible for the global clinical solutions business unit. He began his career at Genentech in manufacturing operations, and subsequent ly held roles of increasing responsibility at Danaher Corporation involving marketing, strategy development, acquisition integration, commercial operations, and sales. As CCO of Teknova, he will lead the sales, product management, commercial operations, and customer service teams.
Alpha Teknova, Inc. is a producer of critical reagents for the research, discovery, development, and commercialization of therapies, vaccines, and molecular diagnostics. It offers two primary business lines, which include lab essentials and clinical solutions. It also offers three primary product types: pre-poured media plates for cell growth and cloning; liquid cell culture media and supplements for cellular expansion; and molecular biology reagents for sample manipulation, resuspension, and purification. The Company offers its liquid cell culture media and supplements and molecular biology reagents in both of its two product categories; pre-poured media plates are available in its Lab Essentials category only. Its customers include pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, contract development and manufacturing organizations, in vitro diagnostics franchises, and academic and government research institutions developing vaccines and therapies and performing basic research.
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