Gregor Kent

Chief Executive Officer (Director)

Prior to Next Level Genomics, Gregor served as Group CEO and Founder of the Research Instruments (RI) Group of companies in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam, a leading distributor for scientific products in Asia, which was acquired by the Everlife Asia Group in 2022. Gregor had taken RI from inception to a multinational enterprise with over 100 employees in Asia over the span of several decades. Mr. Kent was also the founder of Nexus Analytics (Singapore and Malaysia, now part of C. Melchers GmbH & Co.), which was a spin-off of the RI analytical instruments and lab products, allowing RI to focus on life sciences.

Research Instruments was founded with a determination to provide a best-in-class (and world-class) level of after-sales technical and customer support services as a distributor—a practice that RI proudly carries forward to this day. Gregor has worked with a multitude of companies and technologies during his career, including analytical chemistry technologies and instruments (HPLC, LCMS, AA, ICP, FTIR, thermal, etc.) as well as rapidly evolving life sciences research technologies, from early-day sequencing and synthesis, microarray, and TOF mass spec to more recent developments in long-read NGS, single-cell, and spatial genomics. 

Gregor, or Greg, is currently a permanent resident of Singapore (since 1999) and hails from Massachusetts, USA, where he studied chemistry at UMass and spent his early career in the lab at Waters Corporation, later moving on to technical support and field support for HPLC within the USA. Eventually, his career with Waters moved him to Paris, France, as a service manager for Eastern Europe and the Middle East before coming to Singapore as a regional manager for Waters for Asia (then a division of Millipore) before founding Research Instruments Pte Ltd. in Singapore, Nexus Analytics, and most recently Next Level Genomics Pte Ltd.

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