Fred Lowery is an accomplished and dynamic corporate leader with a proven track record leading teams to drive profitable growth. He has developed strong operating teams, launched innovative new products, acquired businesses and successfully led organizations for over 25 years while working for several Fortune 500 companies. In his current role as Senior Vice President and President for Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Customer Channels business, Fred has oversight of Fisher Scientific, the company’s industry-leading distribution business for laboratory supplies used in academic and government research, biopharma, healthcare and industrial markets. As part of Thermo Fisher’s more than 80,000 employees and contributing to the company’s $30B in annual revenue, Fisher Scientific serves customers around the world by offering more than 2.5 million products globally, including lab consumables, instruments and equipment, safety products, chemicals and life sciences reagents through a strong sales network and industry-leading website, fishersci.com. Fred is also the executive sponsor of Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Just Project initiative, named after the pioneering biologist Everett Ernest Just. As part of this project, Thermo Fisher has donated $25M in equipment and solutions to enable COVID-19 testing at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) across the U.S. to support the safe return of students and faculty back on campus.