About Industrial Scientific

Parker Burke serves as president of Industrial Scientific. In this role, he is responsible for forming and executing the company’s strategy toward preserving human life and ending death on the job by 2050.

Previously, Parker was vice president and general manager at Anderson-Negele, a Fortive operating company based in Fultonville, New York, that provides hygienic instrumentation solutions and services for processors of food, beverage, and life sciences products. Before leading Anderson-Negele, Parker was with Gilbarco Veeder-Root, where he held leadership positions in marketing, product management, and operations.Parker received his Bachelor of Science degree in systems engineering from the United States Naval Academy. Following graduation, he served as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps for over six years. Parker also holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management.

Amanda Birkhead is responsible for working cross functionally to tightly align the company’s go-to-market structure from market visibility and lead generation to sales, with the goal of delivering an outstanding global customer experience.

Amanda joined Industrial Scientific from Honeywell, where she demonstrated results in roles of increasing responsibility across marketing, commercial, and product. Most recently, she was the chief product officer for the buildings segment of Honeywell Connected Enterprise, where she led strategy, product management, pricing, and marketing for cloud-based, enterprise software offerings for building control, predictive maintenance/analytics, workplace experience, and business process improvement. Prior to that, she was the chief marketing officer for Honeywell Building Solutions, where she led marketing strategy and execution. 

Amanda holds a Bachelor of Science from Washington University in St. Louis and a Master of Business Administration from the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis.

Gavin Boorman serves as managing director and general manager of the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) regions. Utilizing Industrial Scientific’s leading gas-detection products, connected wearables, and software services, Gavin will accelerate Industrial Scientific’s Vision of eliminating death on the job by the year 2050 by improving safety outcomes for workers across EMEA.

Throughout his career, Gavin has built high-functioning teams and successful businesses in the gas-detection and connected-technologies industries. Gavin most recently served as Blackline Safety’s European managing director. Prior to Blackline, Gavin was the European president of GfG, the European director for BW Technologies (now Honeywell), and sales director at Alphasense. Gavin holds a Bachelor of Science in Applied Chemistry.

Zack Burger, Head of Human Resources, joined Industrial Scientific in March 2023. He is responsible for setting and executing a people strategy that attracts top talent, provides for a culture of performance and innovation, and on-going development of leaders to grow and sustain the business. Zack joined the company from Thermo Fisher Scientific in Pittsburgh where he served as Sr. Director, Human Resources. Prior to that, he spent 15 years in roles of increasing responsibilities in the HR team at Northrop Grumman. Zack holds a B.S. in Economics from Campbell University and a certificate in Project Management from the University of California at Irvine.

Nick Lim serves as vice president and general manager of Industrial Scientific, Asia Pacific. In this role, he is responsible for leading Industrial Scientific’s Asia Pacific gas detection and iNet® businesses, as well as various corporate functions in Asia Pacific.

Previously, Nick was vice president (commercial) in Asia Pacific for Industrial Scientific. Prior to joining Industrial Scientific in 2010, he worked at General Electric, Honeywell, and Halma, where he held leadership positions in sales, marketing, and product management.

Nick holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Hull (UK) and is also a graduate of INSEAD Asian International Executive Program.

Jim brings 30 years of experience in supply chain materials management and operations to Industrial Scientific. Most recently, as Vice President, FBS Lean at the Fortive Business System (FBS) office within Fortive, where he has led operations and supply chain transformations across the corporation. His work includes key projects, including recently for Fluke, where he has been a critical leader in their Assurance of Supply initiatives. Prior to the FBS office, Jim brings spent several years at Qualitrol (Fortive company) leading the Materials initiatives and ultimately as Senior Director, Operations.

He holds a Bachelor of Science from Bowling Green State University and a Master of Business Administration from the Simon School of Business at the University of Rochester.

Corrie Noir serves as Vice president, General Counsel and Data Privacy Officer for Industrial Scientific. Prior to joining ISC in 2021, Corrie worked the majority of her career as General Counsel of a gas analyzer manufacturing company. She also served as General Counsel and HR Director for a national food supplier and a corporate attorney in major Pittsburg law firm. Corrie received a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Allegheny College and her law degree from Wake Forest University School of Law.

Nick Pflugh is responsible for the alignment of Industrial Scientific’s commercial teams in the Americas and commercial strategy globally – all with the goal of delivering an outstanding customer experience.

Nick  joins Industrial Scientific from 6K Additive, where his work in commercial strategy development and execution resulted in exponential growth. Prior to that, he spent 16 years with Kennametal in a variety of cross-functional leadership roles and 6 years at GE in various roles of increasing responsibility across enterprise technology, manufacturing quality, business process improvement, and more.

Nick holds a Bachelor of Science in Management Information Systems from Penn State Erie and a Master of Science in Information Technology Management from Carnegie Mellon University.

Keith joined Industrial Scientific in 2007 as a District Manager Fire and Gas Systems. Since joining Industrial Scientific he has served in various commercial roles with increasing responsibility, Global Account Manager, Americas Director of Sales, Fire and Gas Systems, Director US West and Canada, Director US East and Latin America. Prior to joining Industrial Scientific, he served in Sales leadership roles at Honeywell, Tyco International and Wilson Supply. Keith holds a Bachelor of Business Administration, Marketing from Texas A&M University.

Andreas is responsible for the alignment of Industrial Scientific’s product and engineering teams, as well as the execution of the company’s global technology strategy.

Andreas joins Industrial Scientific from JLL Technologies, where he served as the vice president of engineering. Prior to that, he held multiple roles at PNC Bank including senior vice president of product management.

Andreas holds an Honors Degree in Technology Management from the Center for Digital Technology and Management in Munich, Germany, as well as a Master of Science in Computer Science from Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. He was also a PhD candidate at the Technical University of Munich and spent time as a visiting researcher and scholar at the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley.