Kari Pekka Pitkänen

The company is part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science. Thermo Fisher Scientific enables customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer by providing analytical instruments, equipment, reagents and consumables, software and services for research, analysis, discovery and diagnostics. With annual sales of more than $9 billion, Thermo Fisher Scientific has over 30,000 employees and serves more than 350,000 customers in pharmaceutical and biotech companies, hospitals and clinical diagnostic labs, universities, research institutions and government agencies as well as environmental, industrial quality and process control settings. Finnzymes, founded in 1986, is a leader in the development of PCR, quantitative real-time PCR, transposon and RNA technologies. Its aim is to develop products which make the difference, products that deliver results not achievable otherwise.