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Erik Greenfield Joins Immucor as Senior Director, Program Management

Life Science Partner recruits former Senior Manager, Assistant Director Program Management for Life Technologies

Life Science Partner announces the recruitment of Erik Greenfield, a Six Sigma Black Belt engineer, to Immucor to become Senior Director, Program Management for the company.

Immucor is a global in vitro diagnostics company specializing in the area of pre-transfusion diagnostics. The Company is the global leader in the development, manufacture, and sale of products used by hospital blood banks, clinical laboratories, and blood donor centers to detect and identify certain properties of human blood prior to patient transfusion.

“Greenfield has an engineer’s perspective on program management and is an experienced strategist who transforms strategic plans into workable solutions and benchmarks performance against key operational goals.” noted Tom Callaway, MD, founder and president of Life Science Partner.  “His high energy and do-it-yourself attitude will fit well with the entrepreneurial environment at Immucor.”

At Life Technologies, he was responsible for coordinating and managing the overall project schedules worldwide for the molecular and cell biology groups.  He drove new product commercialization timelines and budgets for all aspects of product development from concept to project closure.  Previously, Greenfield served as Manager, Business Development & Integration Projects (M&A), at PerkinElmer – Life & Analytical Sciences.

Greenfield received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Ohio University in Athens, OH.  He earned his Masters in Biomedical Engineering from George Washington University.  Greenfield is Six Sigma Black Belt certified.

About Life Science Partner

Life Science Partner’s high-quality executive, research and professional placement services target the very specific needs of life sciences and healthcare organizations. We identify and recruit the brightest talent in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical device, academic and healthcare services fields.  Our combined scientific backgrounds and senior management experience give us the scientific literacy and business knowledge to help us better understand challenges, refine requirements and work more effectively with our life science clients.

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BD Biosciences Recruits Jim Carraher to Become Director, Program Management of Cellular Analysis Business

Life Science Partner recruits proven project management leader at Dade Behring and Syva Company

Life Science Partner announces the placement of James (Jim) D. Carraher, formerly director of program management at Pelikan Technologies, to become the director of program management, cellular analysis business unit at BD Biosciences. 

BD Biosciences, a division of Becton, Dickinson and Company, provides a comprehensive portfolio of reagents, systems and technical expertise to accelerate the pace of biomedical discovery and diagnosis.

In this new role, Carraher will be responsible for the BD Bioscience cellular analysis product development team – speeding products rapidly from concept to prototype to final product in manufacturing and into the research scientist’s laboratory.  Carraher will  accelerate product development for this world leader in flow cytometry solutions for research and clinical use for immune function, vaccine research, infectious disease and oncology.

At Pelikan Technologies, Carraher led an entrepreneurial team to develop the next generation sample acquisition and blood glucose monitoring.  Previously, he was director of project management at Aviron, a vaccine company developing the FluMist delivery system.

“Jim is a top-flight project manager, who has been proven on the international stage,” says Life Science Partner vice president Cindi. Roberts. “He will prove a valuable addition to speeding the commercialization of BD Biosciences’ considerable portfolio.”

Carraher comes to BD Bioscience with more than 20 years of experience developing leading-edge diagnostic products.   In addition to Pelikan Technologies, Carraher has had leadership roles in product management, international marketing and business general management during 20 years at Syva and its successors Behring Diagnostics and Dade Behring. 

While living in Germany during 1996 to 2000 leading global product management for Dade Behring, he introduced the first Customer Advisory Board and Technology Advisory Board that created the Company’s first detailed product lifecycle plan.  The net resulting efficiency was seen in a 17% reduction in manufacturing cost and reduced post-installation service calls.

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