Allen Poirson

Allen Poirson, Ph.D. has served as the Senior Vice President of Business and Corporate Development since May 2022. From April 2021 to May 2022, Dr. Poirson served as Senior Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Development. Dr. Poirson also served as a member of the board of directors from August 2018 to March 2021. Immediately prior to joining Cytek’s operational team, Dr. Poirson was the Senior Vice President of Business Development at twoXAR, Inc, a biopharmaceutical company. Dr. Poirson also previously served as Chief Executive Officer and Chair of Sony Biotechnology Inc., a biotechnology company.

Dr. Poirson’s domain expertise includes analytic instruments, computational biotechnology, medical devices, in vitro diagnostics, chemistry and software. Dr. Poirson has formal scientific training in neuroscience and has held research positions at Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a non-profit medical research organization and NASA, a federal aeronautics and space research agency.

Dr. Poirson holds a B.A. and a Ph.D. in Psychology from Stanford University.