Innovating for Global Health Challenges

President and CEO

Robert Spignesi

Rob has more than 20 years of leadership experience. Before joining Rapid Micro Biosystems, he was Vice President and General Manager, Americas, for the Microbiology Division of Thermo Fisher Scientific.

Previously, Rob was the VP of Global Strategy, Marketing, and Business Development for Fisher Scientific. He has also held senior positions at McKesson Corporation and its affiliates, including EVP Operations and Development and National Vice President of Sales and Business Development.

Earlier in his career, Rob was a senior consultant within the Life Sciences and Healthcare practice of Deloitte Consulting and an aviation officer with the U.S. Army.

Rob holds a BS in Economics from the United States Military Academy at West Point and an MBA from Columbia University, where he was the Dr. Donald Bibeault Scholar.

Chief Financial Officer

Sean Wirtjes

Sean has over 25 years of broad financial experience in the healthcare and technology industries. Most recently, he served as Vice President, Finance and Controller of Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa (AMEA) for Boston Scientific, a manufacturer of medical devices. In this role, he led all aspects of financial management for the AMEA region, as well as providing regional oversight for the strategic pricing, reimbursement, supply chain, and business development functions.

Previously he served as Vice President of Investor Relations at Boston Scientific, in progressive roles at Varian, Inc. including Vice President and Controller and Vice President, Finance and Treasurer, and as Corporate Controller at Quova. Sean began his career with PricewaterhouseCoopers, serving emerging, high growth clients across the healthcare and technology industries.

Sean holds a BS in Accounting from the Carroll School of Management at Boston College. He is a Certified Public Accountant and a member of Financial Executives International (FEI) and the Association of Financial Professionals (AFP).

Chief Commercial Officer

Andy Keys

Andy is a global commercial executive and biopharmaceutical scientist with nearly 20 experience leading global sales and customer service teams. He will lead our global sales and service teams to help Rapid Micro Biosystems achieve its vision of being the trusted standard in microbial automation enabling our customers to deliver essential products.

Andy joins Rapid Micro Biosystems from Quanterix where he served as their SVP, Global Commercial Operations. He started his career as a field application specialist and has demonstrated his knowledge and expertise in sales leadership roles at SomaLogic and Molecular Devices. In these roles, he has demonstrated commercial revenue. Andy served his country with the US Navy. He also holds a Master’s degree in Biomedical Science from University of Massachusetts Medical School and a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Southern Illinois University.

Chief Human Resources Officer

Vicki Vezina

Vicki is a global human resources executive with 25 years of progressive HR experience across multiple industries, where she has been effective at impacting business results and culture change by aligning business and people strategies. She has a strong track record of designing and implementing HR operating models to attract and develop high-performing teams.

Vicki has held such positions as Chief People Officer, Chief Human Resources Officer, Vice President of Talent Management and Development with SimpliSafe, Skyworks Solutions, and ThermoFisher Scientific, respectively. She has built her career by working in high growth companies, helping the leadership teams develop scalable and sustainable talent strategies to support the business objectives.

Vicki holds a master's degree in Organizational Psychology from William James College, and a BA from Clark University. She sits on the advisory board for the George Washington University Transformative Leadership in Disruptive Times Certificate Program.

Chief Operating Officer

John Wilson

John has over 20 years of progressive experience to RMB from Medtronic and Becton Dickinson, where he was most recently the Vice President Global Operations. John has held multiple leadership positions in quality, operational excellence, global operations, product development, and direct day-to-day plant management activities.

John has served his country in the U.S. Army.  He holds a BSBM from University of Phoenix and an MBA from University of San Francisco.

Senior Vice President of Strategy

Gurinder Grewal

Gurinder brings 20+ years of corporate and financial strategy, business development, and investment experience to RMB. He joins the company from Advent International, a highly successful global, growth-oriented private equity firm where, over 12 years, he grew his career from Principal to Partner & Managing Director. He led numerous private equity investments, where he closely partnered with management teams and developed strategies to drive significant organic and inorganic revenue and earnings growth.

Prior to Advent, Gurinder spent five years at Bain Capital where he built his career from Associate to Vice President. He started his career at Credit Suisse, where he was an analyst on the investment banking team.

Gurinder holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School, and an HBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario in Canada.

Senior Vice President and General Counsel

Jonathan Paris

Jonathan leads all aspects of RMB's global legal and compliance activities. He joined the company from Insulet, where he served as the Deputy General Counsel for six years. Prior to joining Insulet, he built nearly 20 years of progressive experience in several roles including Associate General Counsel and Senior Corporate Counsel at Medtronic (previously Covidien), as well as Deputy General Counsel at Alliance Energy and Associate Director, Corporate Counsel at Publicis (formerly Digitas).

Jonathan holds a BA from Colby College, an MS in Finance from Suffolk University, and a JD from Suffolk University.

Vice President of Research & Development

Kristine Williams

Kris leads all aspects of new product design and development at Rapid Micro Biosystems. She joined the company from Ecolab, where she held progressive leadership positions across Research and Development, Engineering, Supply Chain and Quality over a period spanning nearly twenty years.

Kris holds an Executive Development Program Certificate from Wharton Business School, a Management Development Program Certificate from University of North Carolina and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from University of Texas.