Executive profile
Scientific depth. Commercial leadership.
Measurable impact.
Former Thermo Fisher Scientific Director of Marketing with 20+ years spanning research tools, biopharma workflows, molecular diagnostics, global launches, services, and recurring-revenue businesses.
Rik’s career began close to the science and the customer, supporting molecular workflows and clinical laboratories before progressing into global marketing and commercialization leadership.
Across a 20+ year career spanning Qiagen, Invitrogen, Life Technologies, and Thermo Fisher Scientific, he progressed from scientific and customer-facing roles into global marketing leadership. Most recently, he led a global team of 15 supporting a $500M services portfolio across nine business units.
Today, he is known for connecting scientific complexity with commercial strategy—prioritizing opportunities, clarifying customer value, aligning execution, and building accountable, high-performing teams.
What differentiates Rik
Scientific fluency with enterprise commercial judgment.
Rik combines direct understanding of scientific workflows and customers with experience making portfolio, market, positioning, launch, and organizational decisions at global scale.
Commercial leadership capabilities
- Portfolio strategy
- Segmentation
- Positioning
- Global launches
- Recurring-revenue growth
- High-performing marketing teams
Leadership scope
Senior marketing leadership
Former Director of Marketing at Thermo Fisher Scientific
Enterprise scale
Led a global marketing team of 15 supporting a $500M services portfolio across nine business units
Industry tenure
20+ years in life sciences and diagnostics
Portfolio breadth
Research tools, biopharma workflows, molecular diagnostics, services, and recurring-revenue businesses
Education
MS, Biotechnology Enterprise
Johns Hopkins University
BS, Biological Sciences
University of California, Santa Barbara
Executive Development
Mini MBA in Marketing
Mark Ritson
Leadership and Performance Coaching
Brown University
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