Senior Vice President Rick Kniss to its Bo announces appointment of former Agilent Senior Vice President Rick Kniss to its Board
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Bruker AXS Inc., a leading global provider of advanced X-ray solutions for life and advanced materials sciences, today announced that it has appointed Richard D. Kniss to its Board of Directors.
Since August 1999, Mr. Kniss has been Senior Vice President for Agilent Technologies, and the general manager of Agilent’s Chemical Analysis Group, a producer of gas and liquid chromatographs, mass spectrometers and spectrophotometers. From 1995 to 1999, prior to the spin-off of Agilent from Hewlett Packard, Mr. Kniss was Vice President and General Manager of the Chemical Analysis Group for Hewlett Packard. Mr. Kniss holds a B.S. from Brown University and an M.B.A. from Stanford University. “We cordially welcome Rick as a new member of our Board of Directors” said Martin Haase, President and CEO of Bruker AXS. “With his enormous experience in life-science and chemical instrumentation, we expect Rick to contribute strongly to our growing business in structural proteomics and materials science.”
“I am very pleased to be joining the Board of Bruker AXS” commented Mr. Kniss, “a dynamic company participating in very exciting segments of the life science and material science markets.“