BOSTON, USA, Aug. 22, 2024 — Dotmatics, a leader in R&D scientific software connecting science, data, and decision-making, has announced the appointment of Michael Swartz as Chief Strategy Officer, effective immediately. Swartz, who previously served as Senior Vice President of Enterprise Product Strategy, was closely involved in the development of Dotmatics Luma®, a Scientific Intelligence Platform. Reporting to CEO Thomas Swalla, Swartz will play a critical role in driving Dotmatics’ long-term strategic initiatives and enhancing the company’s value to its customers.
Swartz was an early pioneer in the digital transformation of life sciences R&D labs and will now be instrumental in leading Dotmatics’ strategic direction, particularly in leveraging their innovative platform, Dotmatics Luma®. This multimodal Scientific Intelligence Platform is designed to help scientists unify workflows and dataflows, enabling better decision-making through the analysis of diverse data at scale.
“Michael’s experience over the past 25 years allows him to understand our customers’ challenges with extreme empathy,” said Thomas Swalla, CEO of Dotmatics. “He deeply understands science and software, and his extensive experience in marrying these two into transformative solutions will be crucial as he partners with our product teams and our broader organization to combine our mission-critical applications together with Luma to drive an AI-powered Lab-in-a-Loop for our customers.”
Prior to joining Dotmatics, Swartz was the Vice President of Software Solutions and Strategy at PerkinElmer Informatics (Revvity), where he led strategic planning and execution for the overall product portfolio, including the Signals platform, ChemDraw, and Spotfire. He has also served as Vice President of Knowledge Management at CambridgeSoft, a pioneer in the Electronic Lab Notebook market.
“I joined Dotmatics at a transformational moment in our industry,” said Swartz. “The advancements in AI/ML and accelerated computing alongside the various new modalities of therapeutics will have an enormous positive impact on our industry and our society. Dotmatics has built and acquired best-in-class scientific applications that are key components of scientist and researcher multimodal workflows, and we’re now unifying those with Luma to power AI discovery in science.”
Dotmatics is a leader in R&D scientific software connecting science, data, and decision-making. Its enterprise R&D platform and scientists’ favorite applications drive efficiency and accelerate innovation. More than 2 million scientists and 10,000 customers trust Dotmatics to help them create a healthier, cleaner, safer world. Dotmatics is a global team of more than 800 people dedicated to supporting its customers in over 180 countries. Dotmatics has made 14 acquisitions since 2017. The company’s principal office is in Boston, with 14 offices and R&D teams located around the world.
Dotmatics is backed by Insight Partners, a leading global venture capital and private equity firm investing in high-growth technology and software scaleup companies.
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