Sigma-Aldrich Names New Sales & Research Biotech Leaders

09-Jul-2007

Sigma-Aldrich Corporation announced the promotion of two current senior executives to new responsibilities with the Company. Gerrit van den Dool, 53, will assume expanded duties in the newly created position of Vice President Sales and Dr. David A. Smoller, 44, will become the new President of the Company's Research Biotech business unit.

Van den Dool, who will be responsible for sales for all three of the Company's research business units, joined Sigma-Aldrich in 1999 as the head of European Research Sales. He served in sales leadership roles at both Amersham-Pharmacia and Molecular Dynamics prior to joining the Company and holds degrees in Applied Physics from HTS Dordrecht University and in Business from Tilburg University of Eindhoven, both in the Netherlands. van den Dool will relocate to St. Louis from his current assignment in Munich, Germany, and will report directly to Jai Nagarkatti, President & CEO.

Smoller joined Sigma-Aldrich as Vice President Research & Development in 2004 after founding and selling two successful biotech start-up companies - Genome Systems, Inc. and ProteoPlex, Inc. - over the prior decade. Since joining the Company, he had assumed broader responsibilities as Vice President R&D and Operations for Sigma-Aldrich's Research Biotech business unit and been named to the Company's Key Management Group in late 2005. Smoller, who holds Ph.D. and B.S. degrees in Biology from Emory University and who completed his post doctoral fellowships with Washington University and Monsanto Company, will also report directly to Nagarkatti. Shaf Yousaf, the previous President of the Research Biotech business unit, has left the Company to pursue other interests.

In a related move, Gilles Cottier, President of the Company's Research Essentials business unit and a member of its Executive Management Group, will add direct oversight of operations in India and China - two of the Company's most rapidly growing markets - to his existing duties.

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