Chris Tan

Biography

Dr Chris Tan brings more than fifteen years of experience in healthcare, life science and molecular diagnostic sales, marketing, business development and commercial operations across emerging and Fortune 500 companies.Previously, he worked in Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in Life Science and Molecular Diagnostics where he served as the VP, Commercial Operations for APAC, Bioscience Division, representing the Life Science, Molecular Diagnostic, Chemical and Bio processing Business with a revenue responsibility of US$200M (Direct and Channel).Prior to that, he was with Agilent as Business Development Director, Molecular Diagnostics, Asia Pacific. In this role, he successfully formulated and executed the Agilent Asia Pacific Diagnostics’ market development plan including different technology platforms like Microarray, QPCR and LCMS for the launch of the next generation molecular diagnostics business. He also led the Agilent, Life Science Research business for Asia Pacific and Japan where his team revamped and rapidly expanded Agilent’s life science products to the Asia Pacific region focusing on clinical solutions in molecular cytogenetics especially on microarray and next generation sequencing.

Research Interest

Life science, Molecular Diagnostic, Chemical and Bio processing