Pacific Biosciencessaid this week that Karen Bray has joined the company as VP of North American Sales. Bray previously was a sequencing sales leader at Life Technologies selling Ion Torrent and SOLiD systems in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic regions, and before that she held sales posts at Beckman Coulter, Fisher Scientific, and Whatman.

Real Time Genomics has appointed Steve Lombardi to be company president and CEO, the genomic analysis software company said this week. Lombardi was president and then CEO of Helicos Biosciences between 2006 and 2010, and he was a senior executive involved in corporate development and business management at Affymetrix between 2002 and 2006. He also held several sales and management positions at Applied Biosystems in product, sales, and business management from 1986 to 2002.

Fluidigm has tapped Dan Clutter as North American sales director for its eastern sales region. He will be responsible for sales growth in the eastern US and Canada and will be a member of Fluidigm's North American commercial leadership team, according to a spokesperson. Clutter joins Fluidigm from Gentel Biosciences, where he had served as vice president of commercial development since 2009. Before that, he was vice president of sales at NimbleGen Systems, now Roche NimbleGen.

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