Founder’s Bio
Eduard Alberts, Ph.D. has over twenty years of life science industry career success, including extensive global experience growing markets and recruiting top-tier talent in Asia Pacific, Latin America, the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas. Eduard’s industry experience includes domestic and global responsibilities in sales, marketing, product management and business development across a wide array of niche segments as well as different sized companies and a wide range of cultures.
After receiving his BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees in biology from the University of Cologne, Eduard joined Bio-Rad Laboratories and worked in sales and product management in Germany. He then held a variety of marketing and sales positions in Europe and Israel, and in the US at the corporate headquarters in St. Louis for Sigma-Aldrich, Inc., a leading manufacturer of life science reagents.
Eduard also worked at Vi-Jon Laboratories (St. Louis), Life Technologies (now Thermo Fisher in Foster City, California), and Tecan USA (with corporate headquarters in Switzerland), where he broadened his knowledge of the industry and established a network of life science industry relationships.
Prior to founding the company, Eduard worked as a Vice President & Managing Partner at Sanford Rose Associates – San Francisco, an executive search firm specializing in the life science industry, where he utilized his extensive network of global contacts to develop new clients in the US, Europe, and Asia, and placed exceptional talent across continents.
In addition to English, Eduard is fluent in German and conversational in Hebrew. He and his family reside in the San Francisco Bay Area.