PhenomeX announced that Peter Silvester has been named to the board of directors, effective immediately. Mr. Silvester most recently served as senior vice president and president of Life Sciences Solutions for Thermo Fisher Scientific and brings more than 25 years of experience in the life sciences tools industry as an executive and board member. In his role as senior vice president and president of Life Sciences Solutions for Thermo Fisher Scientific, Mr. Silvester provided executive oversight of Biosciences, Genetic Sciences, Clinical Next-Generation Sequencing and Laboratory Products businesses as well as Life Sciences Finance, Legal, Human Resources, Licensing, and Commercial Supply functions, until his retirement from the company in March 2022.

Prior to this role, Mr. Silvester served for four years as president of Thermo Fisher's Biosciences business, leading the integration between the respective biosciences businesses during Thermo Fisher's acquisition of Life Technologies in February 2014. Prior to the acquisition, Mr. Silvester held a variety of roles within different geographies and operating roles at Life Technologies, including president of the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region as well as leading the integration of Invitrogen and Applied Biosystems and focusing the team on developing the emerging markets in Russia, South Africa, and the Middle East. Mr. Silvester will serve on the Audit and Compensation & Leadership Development Committees of the board of directors.