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About the Company

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc is the world leader in serving science. Our mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. With revenues of $13 billion, we have approximately 39,000 employees and serve customers within pharmaceutical and biotech companies, hospitals and clinical diagnostic labs, universities, research institutions and government agencies, as well as in environmental and process control industries. We create value for our key stakeholders through three premier brands, Thermo Scientific, Fisher Scientific and Unity™ Lab Services, which offer a unique combination of innovative technologies, convenient purchasing options and a single solution for laboratory operations management. Our products and services help our customers solve complex analytical challenges, improve patient diagnostics and increase laboratory productivity.

About the Person

As vice president of management information systems at Thermo Fisher Scientific, formerly One Lambda, Inc., a global medical and diagnostics company, Pandora Ovanessian was responsible for the company’s enterprise systems and operations. In this role, she supported the development of highly-complex commercial proprietary software used at over 1,400 facilities worldwide. Prior to Thermo Fischer Scientific, Ovanessian was chief information officer at Golden State Foods, a global manufacturing and logistics company. In 1996, Ovanessian joined NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory as division manager and CIO. She was published in the May 1999 issue of Oracle’s Profit magazine for her successful launch at JPL. Furthermore, she was recognized in the 1999 edition of the International Who’s Who of Information Technology. Ovanessian graduated with a bachelor’s in business and economics from UCLA. She also earned an MBA with a specialization in Information Systems from Pepperdine University.