Marcus Macht

Mass Spectrometry Expert | Native & High-Mass MS | Protein & Biologics Characterization | Scientific Applications & Commercial Strategy

Hagen im Bremischen, Lower Saxony, Germany

About

I work at the intersection of advanced mass spectrometry, customer-facing leadership, and commercial strategy. My background is rooted in mass spectrometry and protein characterization, with a strong focus on native ESI, high-mass analysis, non-covalent complexes, and biologics/NBE characterization. Over more than two decades, I have worked hands-on with systems from multiple manufacturers, including Bruker, Waters, and SCIEX, which has given me a vendor-independent, pragmatic view of what actually works in real laboratory environments. Beyond the technical side, I bring multi-year leadership experience in customer support, sales support, and market-facing roles. I have led and scaled support structures, translated complex analytical problems into actionable solutions for customers, and supported purchasing and investment decisions from both a technical and economic perspective. I understand how laboratories, biopharma R&D teams, and service organizations evaluate risk, ROI, compliance, and long-term scalability. In recent years, my work has increasingly incorporated data-driven approaches, automation, and applied AI. This includes using AI and modern data workflows to improve analytical interpretation, streamline support and sales processes, and create clearer, more effective scientific and marketing communication. I am not interested in hype; I focus on where AI and automation deliver measurable value in analytical science and commercial operations. I connect on LinkedIn for professional reasons. My network is built around shared scientific, technical, and commercial interests in mass spectrometry, analytical chemistry, and life sciences. When I share content, it is because I consider it relevant: technical insights, industry trends, practical lessons from the field, or information related to services and solutions I am professionally involved with. If you are working in mass spectrometry, biopharma analytics, or analytical services - and value clear thinking that bridges deep technical expertise with commercial reality - feel free to reach outfor connecting!.

Experience

  • MSVision (Remote)
    • European Marketing Manager
      Jun 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 1 mo

      LinkedIn follower growth than competition - vtiger CRM usage and optimization for companies processes - creation of marketing collaterals (flyers, white papers) - website creation and publishing using WordPress, SEO (several long-tail keywords ranking #1 globally in organic results) - grew number of monthly EU website visitors by 92% in 2 years, website goal conversion rates ~20% - content creation, grew LinkedIn post impressions from 5.000 to >25.000 per month in 2 years, engagement rate >10% ttm - customer community creation and management

    • Sales Manager DACH
      Mar 2017 - Present · 9 yrs 4 mos

      We provide instrument manufacturer-independent mass spectrometry service and pre-owned instruments as well as dedicated high mass/native ESI modifications for Waters mass spectrometry systems or ready-to-use upgraded systems. With our own R&D we are continuously working on improving and expanding our high mass related portfolio to offer the best solutions for our customers in biologics, biopharma and virology. Being a small company, we are much more customer focussed and flexible than most others giving you the attention you need and deserve as a customer. Being founded in 2004 by senior Micromass/Waters managers MS Vision nowadays offers independent ISO9001 certified service for Waters, Sciex and ThermoFisher LC-MS. We serve customers all over Europe in Pharma, biopharma, CRO's and food labs as well as governmental and academic institutions.

    • European Sales Manager
      Jun 2021 - Dec 2024 · 3 yrs 7 mos

      Building up a European sales organization: - Recruiting, onboarding and managing a team of up to 4 local sales representatives - Overseeing and reporting sales activities - Introduction and maintenance of CRM system as well as establishing sales reporting based on the CRM - increased sales with on average >30% yoy

  • Member of the Editorial Advisory Board at The Analytical Scientist
    Sep 2012 - Jan 2018 · 5 yrs 5 mos

  • SCIEX (Darmstadt)
    • Senior Omics Customer Support Manager EMEA
      Jul 2014 - Feb 2017 · 2 yrs 8 mos

      Ensuring that our customers get the best possible data out of their MS systems with a team of highly skilled and motivated support specialists all over Europe. Our prime aim is that our customers get your job in protein ID, quantitation or characterization done! To achieve this, we provide specialized instrument demonstrations, customer trainings and technical sales support as well as applicative customer support all over the EMEAI region. Led a Kaizen on grabbing the current state of the support "products": instrument demonstrations, customer trainings and support intervention on customer problems with instruments or applications. The value stream mappings (VSM) from this Kaizen led to a number of process improvements in the EMEA and global demo organization including a revised demo process to bring down the lead times and the times used for as well as the number of instrument demonstrations.

    • Interim Head of Customer Support EMEA
      Jul 2015 - Apr 2016 · 10 mos

      Ensuring that our customers get the best possible data out of their MS systems with a team of highly skilled and motivated support specialists all over Europe. Our prime aim is that you get your job done! To achieve this, we provide specialized instrument demonstrations, customer trainings and technical sales support as well as applicative customer support all over the EMEAI region.

  • Member of international steering committee at MOBI4Health Gdansk
    Jun 2013 - Oct 2016 · 3 yrs 5 mos

    Member of the international steering committee for the MOBI4Health EU FP7 project. Evaluation of the project and providing feedback and suggestions on research and operations. Project has been successfully completed with external auditing in Oct/Nov 2016.

  • Bruker Daltonics (13 yrs 7 mos)
    • Director of European Applications
      Aug 2003 - Jul 2014 · 11 yrs

      Responsible for instrument demonstrations, customer trainings and technical sales support as well as applicative customer support. Heading an international team of >25 highly skilled specialists providing pre- and post-sales customer support in Europe, IMEA, South America and Asia. Involved in marketing, promotion and sales of capital equipment in the (bio-)chemistry/pharma/medical devices area in an B2B environment as well as in interaction with academic and other public research facilities. During that time consolidated the German life science demo labs at one site, reducing the instrument inventory by 15%, established CRM for the global support team for demo and training scheduling, dispatching and customer support and trained the global team. Improved the teams efficiency by >20% and the highly motivated team produced demo win rates significantly above the market share.

    • Key Account Manager
      Jan 2001 - Jul 2003 · 2 yrs 7 mos

      I coordinated the collaboration with Swiss large scale proteomics company Geneva Proteomics ("GeneProt"). Tasks were technical support, IP exchange, instrument maintenance coordination and channeling the information between both companies. To secure a follow-up project for Bruker I co-invented a new mass calibration technology for ion trap mass spectrometers allowing them to produce 30 ppm mass accuracy.