David Fromm Named Engineering VP at Promex

Promex Industries has hired David Fromm as vice president of Engineering. With a long and successful career in medical technology, Fromm will help lead Promex’s development of new go-to-market core technologies as capabilities and services are further expanded to medtech and biotechnology customers.
 
With more than 15 years’ experience in hardware, systems, and product design, Fromm will contribute his talent within medical technologies, providing a link between customer needs and technical implementation required for commercial realization with new and updated Promex processes.
 
“We are confident that Promex’s position as an industry leader will benefit significantly from the technical expertise, industry contacts and vast product development experience David will bring to bear,” Promex CEO Dick Otte said. “He also brings a fresh customer perspective to our current operations as he develops robust go-to-market strategies for new products. Moving forward, we are better positioned to accelerate the development and provision of technology that meets emerging compliance requirements, addresses evolving industry necessities and allows for future-generation use cases.”
 
Before joining Promex, Fromm was director of instrument research for Cepheid, a molecular diagnostics company, where he contributed his skills and talent for more than seven years. Prior to that, he served in multiple roles developing complex instrumentation systems.

Fromm earned a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Stanford University and a bachelor of arts degree in biochemistry from the University of Colorado- Boulder. His research and development work has been touted by chemists and engineers. Fromm is named on six patents in molecular diagnostics, advanced thermal control, and atomic force microscopy instrumentation.
 
“Working with a customer focus is a refreshing new element in my new role. I will be able to tackle obstacles and barriers bridging development to early production and through full manufacturing scale-up, which will improve customer engagement, customer experience, and time to market.” Fromm said. “We have an opportunity to build technology that transforms the biomedical space. I’m pleased to contribute to a team of experts in bringing critical, full-scale solutions from concept to reality.”

Promex Industries specializes in advanced design, packaging, and assembly services for key subsystems used in various applications such as optical, photonics, diagnostics, life sciences, medical and MEMS devices. The company is skilled at heterogeneous integration and assembly of tiny components with unique functionality and complex, custom or detailed assembly requirements. Founded in 1975, Silicon Valley-based Promex provides design-for-manufacturing services coupled with materials science expertise and broad assembly capabilities for small- to mid-volume onshore production. Services include RoHS-optimized SMT, wafer thinning, dicing, wire bonding, flip chip, and combining microelectronic and non-microelectronic components, provided in the company’s Class 100/Class 1000 cleanrooms. Promex holds a CA FDB license and is ISO 13485:2016 and ISO 9001:2015 certified, IPC certified and ITAR registered.