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Alexander Semyonov
Alex was born in USSR (now Russia) and started to get interested in chemistry since the age of eight. Alex has worked as a research organic chemist and Assistant Professor of Physical Chemistry at the Saratov State University. He left Russia in 1998 and entered his 2nd graduate school at the Liquid Crystal Institute in the U.S., where he received his Ph.D. in Chemical Physics. After he set up a Material Characterization Laboratory, he travelled through the Northeast part of the United States as a Senior Sales Engineer for Thermo Fisher Scientific, selling scientific instruments for seven years.

Amy Nutter, Teledyne Tekmar
Amy Nutter is the VOC technical product specialist at Teledyne Tekmar. Currently, she is focused on OEM and customer technical training and application support on the Purge and Trap product line. Previous to her current role, Amy worked for the City of Cincinnati in both the drinking water and wastewater laboratories.

Chuck Costanza, Ion Chromatography Technical Specialist
Chuck Costanza’s current role is supporting the Account Managers from Texas to Montana in promoting and selling ion chromatography solutions for analytical problems.  His experience in Ion Chromatography spans almost four decades with either the Dionex Corporation or Thermo Fisher Scientific.  His career began as a field engineer for the Eastern Region and expanded from installing and repairing ion chromatographs to formalized training of customers both at their facilities and at regional offices. 

Connor Lejcher, Elemental Scientific
Connor Lejcher is a Mid-Atlantic Field Applications Scientist for Elemental Scientific, Inc. He supports the installation, method development, and customer assistance of sample introduction technology for ICPMS and ICPOES.

Danielle Schultz
Danielle Schultz is currently the IES Sales Manager related to Support Plan coverage of chromatography and mass spec instrumentation. She has been in this role since Oct 2021 and manages a team of ten Sales Reps, providing support plan coverage of CMD instrumentation across North America. Prior to supervising the IES Sales Team, she managed the CMD instrument service contracts for the Pacific region for 10+ years, in addition to managing key account service contracts across North America. Danielle’s career with Thermo Fisher Scientific began over 20 years ago in Contract Administration prior to the development of the Support Plan Sales Team. In Danielle’s current role, she continues her journey promoting and supporting Thermo instrument services.

Fred G. Smith
Fred G. Smith obtained his B.S. in Chemistry at Carroll College (Wis.) in 1985 and completed his PhD in Analytical Chemistry at Iowa State University in 1991 under the direction of Professor R.S. Houk. Since 1992 he has worked in the area of sample introduction accessories for ICP-OES and ICP-MS, and is currently Market Product Manager for Teledyne CETAC Technologies, based in Omaha, Nebraska USA.

Gary He, Product Marketing Manager - Gallery Discrete Analyzers
Currently serving as the Product Marketing Manager for the Gallery discrete analyzers within Thermo Fisher Scientific, Gary is responsible for leading the marketing programs to drive sustainable technology adoption in established applications such as water, nutrient, agricultural, food and beverage analyses, and in new adjacent applications, such as enzyme analysis for food and beverage, animal nutrition, grain processing, home care detergent, and biopharma.

Jacob Smith, Teledyne CETAC
Jake began his career as an Organic Chemist and quickly moved into to the Service and Training for GC x GC Time of Flight Mass Spectroscopy.  After almost a decade in Service, he transitioned to Sales as the Midwest Regional Manager for Automated Solid Phase Extraction in 2014.  Over the past five years Jake has worked as the Sales Manager of the Americas for Teledyne CETAC focusing on Automation and customer workflow efficiency.

James Pachlhofer
James is an industry veteran with over 40 years direct experience. Most of his commercial experience has been involved with Gas Chromatography. He then moved into marketing and product management and eventually the Manager of the Custom Solutions Team. James joined Thermo Fisher in 2015 as a Business Development Specialist and his team developed a complete portfolio of GC based analyzers.  As the business grew significantly, Thermo Fisher recently moved James into a new position as a Technical Sales Specialist focused on supporting Thermo Fisher Account Managers and their customers utilizing GC and GCMS products.

Jeff Gross
Jeff Gross is a Senior Training Instructor for both ICP-OES and ICP-MS product lines. Before joining Thermo Fisher Scientific in 2008, Jeff worked in the Environmental Industry for 10 years. Throughout his commercial laboratory tenure, Jeff has fulfilled many roles including Metals Department Analyst, Department Supervisor as well as Project Manager.  Jeff graduated from Southeast Missouri State University with a bachelor’s degree in Secondary Education as well as a bachelor’s degree in chemistry.

Jeff Viney
Jeff Viney has managed the chromatography and mass spec instrument service contracts for the Northeast region for the past 10 years. His career began as a product specialist providing global support and training for molecular spectroscopy instruments with Nicolet Instrument Corporation, which eventually joined and evolved with Thermo Fisher Scientific. With roles in product support, instrument manufacturing engineering, product development, service material management and marketing he has supported many dimensions of instrument services for close to four decades. In his current role, Jeff manages key account service contracts across North America and continues his journey promoting and supporting Thermo instrument services.

Justin Masone, Glass Expansion
Justin Masone is the Sales Manager for Glass Expansion in the Americas. He obtained his bachelor’s degree from Johns Hopkins University and has spent his entire career in trace metals analysis, including both work as an analyst in an environmental lab and as in-house support for ICP and ICP-MS manufacturers.

Juan Carmona
Juan Carmona is an eCDS Chromeleon Specialist at Thermo Fisher Scientific based out of Pflugerville, TX.  He has been with Thermo Fisher Scientific for over 15 years.  At Thermo Fisher Scientific, he is currently focusing on expanding the customer base using Chromeleon for small networks and Enterprise deployments.  Prior to joining this group, he was part of the GC/GCMS Center of Excellence team providing support for the product line.

Keller Barnhardt
Prior to her role as the Applied Markets Technical Marketing Manager, Keller has worked in several different roles since joining CEM in 2003, including both supervising and working directly in the lab on both new application development and new product development, as well as product support. Her knowledge of microwave chemistry and presentations around the globe allow her to bring a unique perspective to microwave digestion and sample preparation.

Kirk Chassaniol, Manager, Product Applications
Kirk Chassaniol is a technical leader in the IC field support group within the North American Centers of Excellence. He began using Ion Chromatography at Exxon Production Research in support of enhanced oil recovery projects.  He has been involved in IC application and customer support in sales and marketing roles.  He has assisted with the development of IC methods/standards for determination of chloride and sulfate in ethanol, determination of cations in hydrogen cell feed gas and methods using combustion IC within the ASTM D02 and D03 subcommittees.

Michael Early, Sr. Market Development Manager, Ion Chromatography
Michael Early is an industry veteran with more than 20 years of Sales & Product Marketing experience in separation science. He is an analytical chemist by training, and a certified product marketer who has held global roles focused on sample preparation for small and large molecules by LC-MS/MS and GC, GC-MS/MS analysis.  He graduated from Morgan State University, Baltimore and studied analytical chemistry at Northeastern, Boston MA then earned a Certificate of Business Education and Development from the Haas school of business University of California, Berkley.

Michael Ebitson, Product Marketing Manager - Sample Preparation
Michael Ebitson currently serves as the Sample Preparation Product Marketing Manager for Thermo Fisher Scientific.  He has more than 25 years’ experience in sample preparation as well as GC and LC applications. Michael has held multiple roles in sample preparation that focus globally leading product marketing, business development, application development and support for sample preparation platforms for the environmental and food-agriculture markets.

Mike Mourgas
Mike Mourgas has over 20 years of experience as a research scientist, laboratory manager and chemist. He has a diverse professional background ranging from researching and developing new methods for biological testing to serving as the Subject Matter Expert for the trace metals, wet chemistry and radiological laboratories at NSF International.  Global responsibilities included traveling to and leading the global inorganic laboratory training, data reporting and laboratory auditing in countries such as China, Brazil, England and Peru before transitioning to Thermo Fisher Scientific as a North American Sr. Application Scientist for Trace Elemental Analysis.

Mike Plantz, Elemental Scientific
Mike Plantz is the Marketing Manager for Automation Products at Elemental Scientific, Inc.  He has been active in the analytical instruments marketplace for over 30 years providing method development, training, product marketing, and sales support for trace elemental applications.

Nico Masciantonio, CEM Corporation
Hands-on laboratory experience, combined with a process control and engineering background have helped Nico develop a firm understanding of the needs of chemists. Since joining CEM, Nico has always worked to put his customer’s needs first. His knowledge of acid digestion tools ensure the right solution is put into his customer’s hands.

Randy Mercurio, Glass Expansion
Randy Mercurio is an ICP Technical Specialist for Glass Expansion. He obtained his bachelor’s degree from NYU and has spent the majority of his career as an environmental chemist specializing in trace metals analysis.

Sarah Crumlett
Sarah Crumlett is a Staff Scientist with the GC and GCMS applications support team at Thermo Fisher Scientific. Sarah has a BS in Chemistry from the University of Oregon. Sarah has over 20 years of experience in analytical chemistry, focusing on automated sample preparation, environmental analysis, and method development.

Seth Sheridan
Seth Sheridan is an Enterprise Chromatography Data System technical specialist who has been supporting Thermo Fisher’s Chromeleon software for over 3 years. Prior to this, he used Chromeleon and other CDS systems in labs at DuPont, DOW, and Eurofins. He holds a B.S. in Chemistry and Biochemistry and enjoys working closely with chromatographers on solving their software issues and improving their processes.