Francis Van Parys

President

Timeline
 

As President of Radiometer, Francis is also responsible for HemoCue AB (Chairman of the Board), a diagnostic company focused on primary care market. Francis is a seasoned global executive who served in a number of General Management roles before becoming President of GE Healthcare Korea in 2017. In that role, he was responsible for helping provide medical technologies and solutions to the healthcare industry in Korea, from diagnostic imaging, monitoring and digital solutions through to life sciences.

He was appointed VP, Asia-Pacific for Cytiva, also part of Danaher, in 2019 and became responsible for providing transformational technologies in biopharmaceutical research, manufacturing and diagnostics to Cytiva customers and partners in the life sciences industry in China, India, Japan, Korea, ASEAN and Australia-New Zealand.

Francis joined Cytiva when it was known as GE Healthcare Life Sciences in 2009 as General Manager for Commercial Operations in EMEA and was later appointed Global Product General Manager, Research and Applied Markets, responsible for the consumables and hardware portfolio. He then became Global Commercial General Manager for Cell Culture in 2016.

Francis started his career by joining GE in a sales leadership program in 2001 and had early-career assignments in Belgium and Germany, before taking on sales marketing positions of increasing responsibility at GE Industrial Solutions. He graduated from the University of Ghent in Belgium with a Master’s degree in Material Science and Engineering. He also holds a Master of Science in Polymer Technology from UMIST in Manchester, UK. Francis lives in London, UK, with two sons.