Michael Woelk

President and CEO

Michael Woelk is a proven leader with a consistent record of building new business for startups and leading companies in the scientific instrument industry. Prior to joining Picarro, Michael was Vice President of Marketing for Varian Inc.'s world-wide scientific instrument business, and was responsible all enterprise-wide in-bound and out-bound marketing processes. Previously, he was Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Ansys Technologies, Inc., a leading supplier of sample preparation products for bio-pharmaceutical applications and kits for clinical toxicology screening. Before joining Ansys, Michael was a co-founder of MetaChem Technologies, Inc. an emerging leader in liquid chromatography consumables for life science and environmental markets that was acquired by Ansys in 2000. Michael has a B.S. in microbiology from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.