Kevin Francis

Kevin is a Fellow at PerkinElmer’s Innovation Group with a role as a “thought-leader” responsible for helping to direct the company’s current and next generation imaging technology to market. Kevin also splits his time as a Visiting Professor at UCLA and Texas A&M. Kevin is responsible for identifying beta testing sites for new equipment and set-up collaborative long-term R&D projects with key customers. He has been involved with the IVIS optical system development and biological applications since 1999 when he joined Xenogen. Kevin brings decades of experience in the optical imaging equipment market with a broad knowledge base of both the applications side and a unique understanding of the preclinical imaging market.