Michael Schaefer

Michael is a biologist and chemist from Mainz University in Germany. His professional career started in microbiology and cell diagnostics at E. Merck Darmstad. He next moved to Bayer Diagnostics as Marketing Director for Haematology and Lab Information Systems, leading the company to a top position in the market. As Regional Director in South-East Asia in 1993, based out of Singapore, he grew the company’s turnover by a factor of five in the following four years.

In his last years at Sysmex he was Executive VP of Sysmex Corporation, Kobe, Japan, in charge of New Business Development, where he led three major acquisition projects and defined the company’s global strategy in the Oncology arena.