Bruker Corp. (BRKR) Appoints Knight to COO and Monahan to CFO

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November 9, 2009 9:11 AM EST

Bruker Corporation (NASDAQ: BRKR) today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Bill Knight to Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Brian Monahan to Chief Financial Officer (CFO), with an effective date of February 1st, 2010. Presently, Bill Knight is serving as CFO, and Brian Monahan is serving as Chief Accounting Officer of Bruker Corporation.

Mr. Knight joined Bruker Corporation as CFO and Treasurer in October 2004. At Bruker, Mr. Knight is also the President of the Bruker Detection business in the United States. Before joining the Company, Mr. Knight served as an operations-focused CFO in several public companies, and was a founder of ATI Technologies, an analytical instruments company, where he had both financial and operational responsibilities. Mr. Knight served as CFO of Anika Therapeutics, Inc., from 2002 to 2004. He served as CFO of Zycos, Inc., a developer of DNA-based therapeutic products, from 2000 to 2002, and as CFO of NMT Medical, Inc., a provider of cardiovascular and neurological medical devices, from 1998 to 2000. Mr. Knight is a Certified Public Accountant and holds a B.B.A. in Accounting from the University of Wisconsin.

Mr. Monahan joined Bruker Corporation as the Corporate Controller in April 2004 and was appointed Chief Accounting Officer and Vice President of Finance in March 2009. In addition to his corporate responsibilities, Mr. Monahan has served in both financial and operational roles in the Bruker Daltonics division, where he has been an Executive Vice President of Bruker Daltonics since November 2006 and General Manager of the Americas since July 2008. From January 2005 to November 2006, Mr. Monahan was Vice President of Finance for Bruker Daltonics, and from July 2004 to January 2005 he was Assistant Vice President of Finance for Bruker Daltonics. Before joining the Company, from 2002 through 2004, Mr. Monahan served as the Manager of Accounting and Financial Reporting at Fisher Scientific International, Inc., and as an audit manager for PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP from 1999 through 2002. Mr. Monahan is a Certified Public Accountant and holds a B.S. in Accounting from the University of Massachusetts.