Tish joined the Board in August 2020. Prior to joining the Group, Tish served as the Execute Vice President of Applied Solutions Strategy, Marketing and Innovation (SMI) for MilliporeSigma, a Merck KGaA Company. Before the acquisition of Sigma-Aldrich by Merck KGaA, Tish was part of Sigma-Aldrich from 2005 – 2015 and served as Vice President of Diagnostics & Testing team as well as Vice President of Global Custom Products business focused on oligonucleotides and peptides.
Prior to joining Sigma-Aldrich, Tish was with Applied Biosystems from 1999-2005 and served as Director, R&D Proteomics & Small Molecule Division with a focus in Mass Spectrometry. Tish has enjoyed a career directing multidisciplinary product development in the life science and pharmaceutical markets and a successful track record managing in both global multinational environments and small entrepreneurial settings.
Professionally, Tish is the recipient of several scientific achievement awards; she is a published author of both scientific articles and patents. Tish completed her Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from The Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, USA.