Thermo Electron Names New Vice President and General Manager of its Informatics Business
Thermo Electron Corporation announced that David Champagne has been named vice president and general manager of its informatics business. Champagne succeeds Dr. Jo Webber, who recently left the company to pursue a long-held desire to return to Europe and spend time sailing the Mediterranean.
On his new role, Champagne commented: "Informatics is a strategic area to Thermo, which has invested in building a market-leading software organization with an amazing product and service portfolio. Our goal is to make a quantum improvement in how customers benefit from software advances to streamline their laboratory business processes and to integrate with their instruments and robotics to create complete, robust solutions. With this change in leadership, we will continue to move forward executing our stated vision and plan."
A graduate of the University of Massachusetts with a BS in Industrial Engineering and an MBA from Bryant University, Champagne built his career in enterprise software organizations. While at Lotus he led a global support and service organization of over 1,200 service professionals that addressed the needs of customers in more than 80 countries. Prior to joining Thermo, he was president and CEO of ProActivity Software, an early stage venture that provides business process analysis solutions, and, earlier, president and CEO of UPSPRING Software, a development tools vendor before it was acquired by MKS.
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