Techne Names James Hippel CFO, Effective April 1 - Quick Facts

(RTTNews) - Techne Corp. (TECH) said it has appointed James Hippel as its chief financial officer, effective April 1, 2014. Hippel is a finance executive with experience in several globally diverse technology businesses, including extensive experience with mergers, acquisitions, and operations integration. He replaces Greg Melsen who resigned effective February 3, 2014 and who served as Techne's VP Finance/CFO since December 2004.

Since May 2012, Hippel has served as Senior Vice President and CFO for Mirion Technologies, Inc. Prior to Mirion, he served as Vice President, Finance at Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc., leading finance operations for its $2 billion Mass Spectrometry & Chromatography and $1 billion Laboratory Consumables units.