Repligen Corporation announced the appointment to its Board of Directors of life sciences tools industry leader Martin D. Madaus.Dr. Madaus brings to the Repligen board over 25 years of industry experience, including five years as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Millipore Corporation, where he was integral to the company's transformation into a life science leader, and its acquisition by Merck KGaA in 2010. He is an active board leader, currently serving two public companies; as Lead Director for precision health technology company Quanterix Corporation and as Board member for mass cytometry player Standard BioTools Inc. (previously Fluidigm Corporation).
Dr. Madaus' executive profile includes his aforementioned leadership of Millipore Corporation, in addition to his earlier role as President and Chief Executive Officer, N.A., with Roche Diagnostics Corp., and his more recent position
as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Ortho Clinical Diagnostics. He is currently a senior operating executive at The Carlyle Group. In addition to his current public company board positions, Dr. Madaus currently leads the boards of three private companies - Unchained Labs, Emulate Inc. and UltiVue Inc.Dr. Madaus previously served on the Board at Covidien Ltd. and Mettler-Toledo International Inc.Dr. Madaus began his career as a veterinarian, before joining Boehringer Mannheim Corporation, where he worked in sales and marketing roles from 1989-1996, until his move into general management coincident with the company's acquisition by Roche Holdings, AG. He holds a D.V.M. from the University of Munich and a Ph.D. in veterinary medicine from the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover in Germany.