Markes International
Massimo Santoro is a seasoned professional in the field of business development and marketing, with extensive experience in the scientific industry. Currently serving as the Director of Business Development at Markes International since November 2014, Massimo has held multiple leadership roles including Business Unit Director and Technical Marketing Director. Prior to this, Massimo worked at Thermo Fisher Scientific from July 2011 to November 2014 in various marketing management positions, along with a decade-long tenure at PerkinElmer where responsibilities included European Mass Spectrometry Sales Program Leader and GC Product Manager among others. Earlier in the career, Massimo was a Process Engineer at STMicroelectronics and served as the Lieutenant Head of the Chemical Forensic Lab at Reparto Carabinieri Investigazioni Scientifiche Parma. Massimo holds a Master Degree in Chemistry from Università di Pavia.
Markes International
We are a specialist manufacturer of instrumentation for detection of trace-level volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds (VOCs and SVOCs). We have a well-deserved reputation for application expertise in the field of thermal desorption, supplying a comprehensive range of instruments, sampling equipment and consumables that enhance the analytical capability of GC–MS. In 2018 we launched Centri, an automated multi-mode sampling platform for pre concentration of analytes from liquid, solid and gaseous samples. Centri has meant we have extended our reach for sample preparation techniques into Headspace, HS-trap, SPME, SPME-trap and high-capacity sorptive extraction (with trap) in addition to thermal desorption. We are part of the Schauenburg Analytics Ltd group of companies, which includes SepSolve Analytical Ltd and Schauenburg Analytical Solutions (Shanghai)