Günter Weisshaar

Günter joined Tecan in 2003 as Senior Vice President, Head of Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs. He has been a member of the Management Board from 2003 to 2010 and a member of the Extended Management Board ever since.

Günter has more than 35 years of experience in the in-vitro diagnostics and medical device industry. Together with his team and Tecan’s customers, he ensures successful strategies for commercialization of products worldwide. Günter is an expert for implementation and certification of quality management systems in medtech and IVD companies (ISO 9001-2015, ISO 13485-2016, QSR 21 CFR 820, IVDR) and a certified enterprise risk manager according to ISO 31000 and ONR 49003.

From 1999 to 2003, he was Manager, Quality Assurance Europe at Jomed AG. Prior to this, he held various positions in quality assurance at several other medical device companies.

Günter holds a degree in Aircraft Engineering. Further, he has been undergoing multiple educations in Quality Management (certified QM Expert EOQ), Management for small am midsize companies (IGW St. Gallen, Switzerland), Risk management for medical devices. He is also a member of the Regulatory Affairs Committee at EDMA (European Diagnostic Manufacturers Association).