Richard Crocombe

About

■ Spectroscopy Thought Leader ■ Focus on miniature, portable, handheld and process analyzers ■ Evangelist for new instrumentation Senior Business Development, R&D and Marketing executive ■ Focus on miniature & portable analyzers ■ Strategy development and deployment ■ Leader of multiple cross-functional teams on strategic projects ■ Lead on several acquisitions, integrations and relocations ■ Extensive product development & program management experience, developing breakthrough instrumentation ■ Evangelist for new instrumentation ■ Collaboration and OEM agreements

Experience

• Principal at Crocombe Spectroscopy Consulting
  Mar 2017 - Present · 9 yrs 5 mos

  Consulting on miniature, handheld and portable spectrometers: technology, applications, marketing, business development and strategy. Providing clients with key insights and strategies for bringing innovative products to market. www.spectroscopyconsulting.com

• Society for Applied Spectroscopy (7 yrs 7 mos)
  • Associate Editor, Applied Spectroscopy Practica
    Dec 2025 - Present · 8 mos

    https://www.nxtbook.com/societyforappliedspectroscopy/Practica/applied_spectroscopy_practica_03_04/index.php

  • Editor, Applied Spectroscopy Practica
    Jan 2025 - Dec 2025 · 1 yr

  • Editor in Chief, Applied Spectroscopy Practica
    Jan 2023 - Dec 2024 · 2 yrs

    The Society for Applied Spectroscopy and SAGE Publishing have launched a new, open-access, peer-reviewed, Journal. https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/applied-spectroscopy-practica/journal203780

• PerkinElmer, Inc. (Waltham, MA)
  • Business Program Leader - Portables
    Nov 2016 - Feb 2017 · 4 mos

  • Senior Director, Product Portfolio
    Apr 2015 - Dec 2016 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Thermo Fisher Scientific (7 yrs 7 mos)
  • Director, Strategy Deployment, Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry Division
    Sep 2013 - Feb 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos

    Implemented Strategy Deployment for an approx. $2 billion division with approx. 6000 employees, and 4 main manufacturing sites. Use of x-matrix formalism with targets to improve (TTIs), action plans (A3s), bowlers, root-cause countermeasures (RCCMs), etc. Ran other (confidential) cross-business-unit initiatives.

  • Director, Strategy Deployment, Portable Analytical Instruments
    May 2012 - Sep 2013 · 1 yr 5 mos

    Implemented Strategy Deployment for the Portable Analytical Instruments (PAI) business. Program manager for 'white label' agreement with GE for XRF instruments. Program Manager for facility build-out and relocation of PAI to new site in Tewksbury, MA. This site is Thermo Fisher Scientific's Portable Analytical Instruments Center of Excellence. 156,000 sq ft facility, including manufacturing floor, controlled environments for optics assembly, small semiconductor fab, MOCVD facility with toxic gas handling, etc. Relocated three businesses from four sites with loss of only one days production. Turned back those sites to the landlords without any problems.

  • Director, Strategy Deployment, Portable Analytical Instruments
    Sep 2011 - May 2012 · 9 mos

    Implemented Strategy Deployment for the Portable Analytical Instruments (PAI) business. Program Manager for facility build-out and relocation of PAI to new site in Tewksbury, MA.

• Senior Director at Axsun Technologies
  Apr 2003 - May 2007 · 4 yrs 2 mos

  Business Development and Marketing for VC-funded company entering the scientific instrument business from telecommunications.