Dick Farrahar, Senior Vice President, Executive Operations Dick is a veteran of over 30 years overseeing operations, human resources, organizational development, team building, and workforce strategy. Before joining Flagship in 1999, he was Vice President of Applera Corporation, where he was responsible for the integration of PerSeptive Biosystems with Applera Corporation following the merger of the two companies in 1998. In addition, Dick guided the process of combining PerSeptive Biosystems, Applied Biosystems, Tropix and Molecular Informatics into a new $1 billion Applied Biosystems division of Applera. He had previously served as Senior Vice President, Executive Operations for PerSeptive Biosystems. Earlier Dick had a long career with Digital Equipment Corporation in both human resources and operations, and for the last several years of his tenure there was a member of DEC's Executive Committee reporting to the CEO.
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