Singular Genomics Systems, Inc. announced the appointment of Sam Ropp, Ph.D., as Chief Commercial Officer. In this role, Dr. Ropp will oversee the company's commercial function, including commercialization of the G4 Sequencing Platform. He will report to Drew Spaventa, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Singular Genomics.

The company also announced the appointment of Jeff Bullard as Head of Sales for North America. Dr. Ropp brings nearly 20 years of commercial experience, including sales, marketing and business development, to this new role. He joins Singular from 10x Genomics, most recently serving as Senior Vice President of Global Sales, where he was responsible for leading all aspects of regional sales, marketing, support and global sales operations.

Previously, Dr. Ropp held senior leadership roles at Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD), including Vice President of Global Sales, Service & Support for the BD Genomics business unit and General Manager of the CLiC Automation Platform business unit. He also brings expertise from his tenure at Molecular Devices (Danaher Corporation) as North American Sales Manager for Distribution and Strategic Partnerships and his numerous roles at Bio-Rad Laboratories, ending as Senior Business Unit Marketing Manager, Genomics. Dr. Ropp received a Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences and an M.S. in Anatomy and Physiology from Wright State University, and a B.S. in Biology and Kinesiology from Stephen F. Austin State University.

Mr. Bullard is an industry veteran with a track record of strategic sales leadership execution. He joins Singular from 10x Genomics, where he most recently served as the Senior Director of Sales—Americas. During his six years with 10x Genomics, he held several roles of increasing responsibility and was instrumental in building the Americas sales organization.

Prior to 10x Genomics, Mr. Bullard held a variety of sales management, sequencing sales and product development positions during his 10-year tenure at Thermo Fisher Scientific, Life Technologies, Ion Torrent and Applied Biosystems/Ambion. Prior to his life science industry sales roles, Mr. Bullard held positions within pharmaceutical, CRO and government entities in a variety of R&D, technical development and applications roles. He received his B.S. in Molecular Genetics from East Carolina University.