The Automation and Digital business has recently started trending in the life sciences industry, but Kevin Seaver has been focused on it for the majority of his career. Kevin’s mission is to lead his multifunctional team to make automation and digital software plans a reality across Cytiva Life Sciences and in turn, its customers.
The big picture involves close cross-functional collaboration with marketing, sales, services, research and development and product management to translate customer needs and analyses into actionable strategies and tactics for automation and digital products. In detail, Kevin and his team are tasked with delivering Figurate™ automation to Cytiva’s FlexFactory™ bio-manufacturing platform – the solution that offers faster deployment, multi-product processing, and accelerated production with flexible, scalable processes.
Kevin is a passionate leader, known for coaching and mentoring. He lives by the words “promises made, promises delivered” – which is manifested in his high performing international organizations, culminating in successful launch of billion-dollar products.
Before coming to Cytiva / GE Healthcare in 2016, Kevin served on the Board of Directors for Northeastern University Advance Manufacturing where he continues to serve. From 2014-2016 he was Senior Director of Engineering for Keurig Green Mountain where he led the automation design and installation for a world-first system to increase efficiency in food and beverage factories. While at Procter & Gamble from 2007-2014, Kevin led both Engineering and Program Management for the Shave Care BU working across horizontal businesses including Duracell, Braun and Oral-B. Kevin has extensive commercial experience spanning globally in North America, South America, Europe & Asia.
Kevin earned both his Master of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Science degrees from the University of New Hampshire at Durham and supplemented with a Master’s Certificate in Project Management from George Washington University as well as a Master’s Certificate in Controllership from Boston University.