Leadership

Susan Murphy

Susan was appointed President of Molecular Devices in June 2019. She joined the company in 2002 in a scientific engineering role and held positions in both the Life Science and Drug Discovery Sales Organizations. She moved into sales management in 2007, progressing through a series of sales leadership roles with increasing commercial responsibilities for North America, Europe, and Brazil. Most recently, she served as Vice President & General Manager of commercial operations in western markets, where she led sales and all aspects of global marketing.

Prior to Molecular Devices, Susan worked at PerkinElmer and Packard BioScience. She also held multiple research positions at Penn State Medical School, University of Chicago, Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratories, and Lake Forest College. Susan graduated with a BA in Biology from Lake Forest College, IL and completed graduate coursework at University of Illinois at Chicago in the Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology Program.

Steven Qian

Steven joined Molecular Device in March 2019 as CFO for the company. Prior to joining Molecular Device, Steven has been with Beckman Coulter Diagnostics as VP Finance for High Growth Markets where he had responsibility in supporting the growth of a region consisting of 150 countries and $1.4B revenue. Steven first joined Danaher with Fluke Corporation as their Asia Finance Director in 2004. In 2013, Steven assumed responsibility for Danaher Corporate Vice President of Finance-Asia CFO. Prior to joining Danaher, Steven worked with Citigroup, i2 Technologies, PepsiCo in progressing roles. Steven is a licensed CPA in State of Texas and holds a B.S. degree majoring in Accounting from Indiana University at South Bend, a Master of Science in Engineering from Southern Methodist University as well as an EMBA from Tsinghua University in Beijing.

Darcy Riley

Darcy joined Molecular Devices in May 2020 as the VP of HR. Her previous Danaher experience starts with Beckman Coulter Dx supporting Global Operations in 2018 and has held progressing roles in Human Resources, most recent as Sr. HR Director, Global Corporate Functions & HR Operations supporting Q&RA, Finance, IT, Legal, Global Marketing, and L1 Leaders. She previously held HR management positions at Eaton Hydraulics, Johnson & Johnson, GenMark Dx and The Pepsi Beverages Company. She strives to support associates through engagement, influential career coaching, and enhancing their capabilities. To achieve these areas of focus, Darcy partners closely with her teams to highlight innovative talent strategies to merge HR initiatives and business goals, within the functions.

Darcy has a Master of Arts degree in Human Resources and Industrial Relations from the University of Minnesota and a BA degree in Psychology from University of Wisconsin.

Julia Daneman

Julia is serving as Lead Legal Counsel of Molecular Devices since November 2016 and has been with the company progressing through a series of roles in the legal team since March 2012. Over the prior 15 years, Julia held legal positions at Trimble, a manufacturer of advanced positioning solutions, @Road, a provider of mobile resource management solutions, and business development positions in Ukraine. Julia is admitted to practice law in California. She holds a Master of Laws from Santa Clara Law School, a law degree with specialization in International Law from Taras Shevcheko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine, and a B.A from Taurida National V.I. Vernadsky University, Ukraine.

Dean Ding

Dean joined Molecular Devices in June 2010 and was appointed Vice President of Global Operations in Apr.2017. Prior to his current role, he was the General Manager of Molecular Devices’ Shanghai, China plant. Dean has held multiple manufacturing leadership and General Manager roles in companies like General Electric, PerkinElmer, Donaldson and Siemens. He holds a BA in Mechanical Engineering from East China University of Science & Technology, and a Master’s degree in Industrial & Systems Engineering from National University of Singapore.

Celeste Glazer

Celeste Glazer is Molecular Devices’ Vice President Global Marketing and Product Management reporting to President Susan Murphy, and member of the company’s executive leadership team.

Glazer has over 11 years of marketing and people management experience, including seven at Molecular Devices where she’s helped the company consistently drive global, double digit growth in new opportunity creation through multitouch marketing programs. A scientist herself, Glazer understands how to effectively differentiate Molecular Devices’ innovative bioanalytical solutions for protein and cell biology, while best addressing customer needs around life science research, pharmaceutical and biotherapeutic development.

Prior to Molecular Devices, Glazer held various marketing, product management and scientific positions such as applications scientist at Labcyte Inc. in Sunnyvale, Calif.; sales, product manager and marketing manager at FUJIFILM Wako Diagnostics U.S.A. Corporation in Mountain View, California.

Glazer graduated with a master’s degree in biology from Boston College and a bachelor’s degree in Biology from Santa Clara University. She’s authored four published scientific articles and is also an inventor named on the issued patent, “Continuous and NonContinuous Flow Bioreactor."

Dan Green

Dan was appointed Vice President of R&D in June of 2020. He previously served as the Senior Director of BioImaging R&D since September of 2018 and Senior Director of Software since April of 2015. He has been with Molecular Devices and its predecessor companies since 1988, when he joined Universal Imaging Corporation as a software developer. Since then he has held a variety of technical and leadership roles of increasing responsibility. Dan holds a MS in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a BA from Cornell University, Ithaca NY

Christian Marcazzo

Christian joined Molecular Devices as VP and General Manager of IDBS in 2018. He has 25 years of experience at the interface of biology, software and business including roles at LION bioscience where he played a central role in building the software business that facilitated the delivery of data from the sequencing of the human genome, and Spotfire where advanced analytics and visualization capabilities accelerated drug discovery, clinical trials, and manufacturing excellence.

Christian has a BA in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of California, Berkeley.

David Micha

David Micha assumed the role of Vice President, Global Danaher Business Systems in May of 2020. He joined Molecular Devices in 2002 in a sales role and delivered solutions for researchers from across the company’s life sciences portfolio. David moved into sales management in 2010, and progressed through a series of leadership roles with increasing responsibilities across North America. Also, in 2010 David became Molecular Devices’ first commercially focused DBSL. In this aspect of his role he focused on the implementation of funnel management, visual management, and commercial problem solving across the North American and European sales organizations. In 2015 David became Molecular Devices’ first commercial operations leader and constructed a team to drive above market growth via the continuous improvement of sales and marketing processes.

Prior to joining Molecular Devices David worked at MWG Biotech and Marsh BioProducts. He also held research positions at the University of Rochester and the Guthrie Research Foundation. David earned a BS in Cell & Developmental Biology from the University of Rochester (NY). He is also a graduate of the American Management Association’s Operation Enterprise, and Danaher’s Maximizing Leadership Potential program.

Jim Reutlinger

Jim was appointed Vice President of Global Professional Services in January of 2018 and previously served as the Director of the Americas & Oceania Service and Service Sales since January of 2015. Prior to joining Molecular Devices, Jim held a variety of leadership roles at Sciex including Director of Global Service Operations. Previous to Sciex, his experience included numerous leadership roles over the last 15 years at Applied Biosystems and Life Technologies including leading Customer Support as well as Chief of Staff to the President & COO. Jim holds a BS in Business and Marketing Management from California State University, East Bay.

Poonam Taneja, Ph.D.

Poonam started in her current role in July 2010. From 2006 to 2010, Poonam held the position of Director, Global Distribution and was responsible for the company’s business in India, South East Asia, Middle East, Russia, Eastern Europe and Latin America. Poonam’s previous positions include Director of International Sales at Arcturus Bioscience and Alpha Innotech Corporation. Previously, Poonam held research positions in Italy, Germany and the US in molecular and cellular biology. Poonam holds a Doctorate in Chemistry from Delhi University and an MBA from Vanderbilt University.

Martin Verhoef

Martin joined Molecular Devices in August 2013. Over the prior 10 years Martin held President and CEO positions in start-ups including Ciphergen BioSystems, PrimeraDx, MiraDx and Applied BioCode. Previously he held leadership roles in sales, marketing and R&D with Agilent and Pharmacia. Martin holds a double BS in Clinical and Analytical Chemistry from the van‘t Hoff Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.