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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.

Sean Harrington serves as vice president of global fulfillment for Industrial Scientific. In this role, he is responsible for driving global strategy for the company’s operations, supply chain, and quality systems.

Sean joined Industrial Scientific from Gems Sensors, a Fortive operating company based in Plainville, CT, where he was the vice president of marketing and business development. Prior to this role, Sean led a variety of functions, including operations, sales, marketing, and business development within several Fortive (Danaher) companies, including the Danaher Tool Group, Portescap, and Setra Systems. Before joining Fortive, Sean worked as a strategy consultant with PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte, and Ernst & Young.

Sean holds a Bachelor of Arts from Boston College and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. 

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Clay Hughes serves as general counsel for Industrial Scientific and Intelex Technologies and is responsible for all legal oversight and compliance activities, including serving as data protection officer.

Clay joined Industrial Scientific in September of 2018, bringing support for the commercialization of new software, technology, and healthcare products at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Enterprises. Clay also has worked in the Pittsburgh offices of Jones Day and Reed Smith.

Clay earned his Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering from Penn State University and his Juris Doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Clay is also a registered U.S. patent attorney.

Clay can be reached at privacy@indsci.com.

As vice president of engineering, Himanshu is responsible for leading the company’s engineering team and developing and executing the company’s global technology strategy.

Himanshu most recently served as vice president and chief technology officer at Honeywell Building Solutions, where he led the development of full-stack, industrial Internet of Things (IoT) products and services to drive connected, predictive, healthy, and smart buildings and cities. Before this position, he held multiple roles at Honeywell focusing on foundational research and development, product development processes, and innovation across multiple technology and market domains. Before joining Honeywell, Himanshu was a principal research scientist at the Information Trust Institute at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He also served as the co-principal investigator and principal scientist for the Trustworthy Cyber Infrastructure for Power Grid (TCIPG) center.

Himanshu holds a Bachelor of Engineering in electronics and communications engineering from the National Institute of Technology in India and a Master of Science and Ph.D. in computer engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park. Himanshu has published over 50 scientific articles and holds 10 patents.

Nick Lim é vice-presidente e diretor executivo da Industrial Scientific, Ásia-Pacífico. Nessa função, é responsável por liderar a detecção de gás da Industrial Scientific Ásia-Pacífico e o segmento iNet® além de várias funções corporativas na Ásia-Pacífico.
Anteriormente, Nick era vice-presidente (comercial) na Ásia-Pacífico para a Industrial Scientific. Antes de ingressar na Industrial Scientific em 2010, ele trabalhou na General Electric, na Honeywell e na Halma, onde ocupou posições de liderança em vendas, marketing e gestão de produtos.

Nick tem mestrado em Administração de Empresas pela Universidade de Hull (Reino Unido) e também é graduado pelo 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.

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.

Pronitha Shankarananda is responsible for leading the Industrial Scientific product management and applications engineering teams while developing and executing the business and product strategy at a global scale.

Pronitha joined Industrial Scientific from Fluke, where she spent 6 years in product management, product marketing, strategy and leading some of Fluke’s largest business units. In these roles, she delivered key wins for both the business and customers across devices, IOT, and software, resulting in a product strategy aimed at solving real customer problems and generating significant growth for the business. Before joining Fluke, Pronitha held roles in enterprise sales, software consulting, and engineering at a variety of companies around the world. 

Pronitha holds a Bachelor of Engineering from the National Institute of Technology in Karnataka, India, a Master of Business Administration from the University of Delhi, and a Master of Science in Management Studies from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.