Transgenomic, a global biotechnology company, has appointed Leon Richards as chief accounting officer. He also will continue in  his current role as corporate controller.

Richards joined the financial group at Transgenomic in 2012. Previously, he served as corporate controller and chief accounting officer at Baldwin Technology, a publicly-traded company that supplies process automation equipment for the printing and publishing industry.

Earlier in his career, Richards was director of financial reporting and control at Ciba Specialty Chemicals (now BASF), and he also held positions of increasing responsibility in the financial group at New York Stock Exchange-listed firm Hercules (now Ashland Chemical).

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