Specific Diagnostics news

Specific Diagnostics today announced the appointment of Nathan Clark as Strategic Account Director. Nathan was a key member of the GenMark sales leadership team, most recently as a sales manager for GenMark’s Northeast region, overseeing a team of 7 sales professionals and infectious disease specialists responsible for approximately $70M of revenue. Nathan was a critical part of the sales team that drove the growth of GenMark’s infectious disease diagnostic products, contributing

Specific Diagnostics today announces the opening of its European warehouse and servicing center in Amsterdam, Netherlands, to support its growing European operations. Working with global integrated logistics leader Crane Worldwide Logistics, Specific and its European subsidiary Specific Diagnostics Europe, Ltd., will warehouse Reveal® instruments and consumables in the Amsterdam facility. The European warehouse will ensure timely fulfillment of customer orders, enable modular instrument s

Specific Diagnostics today announced formation of its US commercial sales, service, support and marketing teams in anticipation of the launch of the Reveal Rapid AST System for blood infection samples. Following 11 studies across France and England comprising over 1,400 clinical positive blood culture samples, yielding overall accuracy of 97.8%, and in tandem with the commencement of clinical and analytical studies in preparation for 510(k) submission to the FDA, Specific’s commercial t

Specific Diagnostics today announced the appointment of Scott O’Brien as its Chief Commercial Officer. Mr. O’Brien is an industry veteran with over 20 years in molecular and infectious disease diagnostics, the last 10 at GenMark where he held a range of commercial positions, most recently Senior Vice President Global Marketing and International Sales at GenMark Diagnostics, contributing to its rapid growth to $200M in annual sales leading to its purchase by Roche Diagnostics for $

Specific Diagnostics today announced the appointment of David Barreca as Vice President of US Sales. David was a key member of GenMark’s sales leadership team, most recently a Senior Director managing a team of Account Executives that drove growth of the GenMark infectious disease diagnostics product, contributing the sales growth that led to GenMark’s acquisition by Roche Diagnostics for $1.8B in May 2021. Prior to joining GenMark, David held several key strategic sales positions