Asylum Research has appointed Monteith Heaton as executive vice-president of marketing and business development for its line of atomic force and scanning probe microscopes.
Heaton joins Asylum with more than 25 years of marketing, sales, business, and technical management experience, most recently as vice-president of sales and marketing for Innovative Micro Technology.
During most of the 1990s, Heaton led marketing for Digital Instruments, and has also held senior management positions with Interstate Electronics, Dynamic Solutions, Millipore, Waters Chromatography and Veeco.
He holds a BS in chemistry and an MS in marine chemistry and environmental science at the State University of New York/Stony Brook University.