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Accelrys has appointed Michael Piraino as senior vice president and chief financial officer, and Paul Burrin as senior vice president and chief marketing officer

Symyx has appointed John Senaldi as senior vice president of Symyx and president of its High Productivity Research (HPR) business unit

Accelerated Technology Laboratories (ATL) has added Dax Morgan to its LIMS sales and implementation team

IDBS has expanded its Asia Pacific presence with new centres in China and Australia, providing direct local support and training, along with sales and business development for the entire portfolio of IDBS products

Chris Denly has been appointed as sales manager, maths and simulation at Adept Scientific

Radiochromatography specialist LabLogic Systems has appointed Bernard Sellier as sole distributor of its software and instrumentation in France

Platform Computing has appointed Jeffrey Galin as vice president of sales for Platform ISF, its private cloud management software, and Phil Morris as chief technology officer for its HPC business unit

Strand Life Sciences has appointed Thon de Boer, formerly of Agilent Technology, as its senior director of product management, software

George Shanks has been appointed CEO of Dezineforce, the provider of advanced design optimisation tools. Former CEO Dr Peter Collins moves to commercial director and will continue to serve on the board

OCF, the UK HPC integrator, has appointed former SGI and ClusterVision sales specialist Georgina Ellis as sales executive, with a primary focus on maintaining and growing OCF's presence in the academic research community