SANTA CLARA, California, February 22 /PRNewswire/ --

Finesse Solutions, LLC, a manufacturer of measurement and control solutions for life sciences process applications, announced the appointment of John O'Connell as its Vice-President of Sales and Business Development. Mr. O'Connell is a seasoned executive with over 25 years of experience in the automation industry. John was most recently at OSIsoft where he successfully initiated partner programs for strategic customers in the life sciences and power industries. Prior to joining OSIsoft, Mr. O'Connell was a partner at Technology 2 Market a sales and marketing consulting firm, and held executive positions at Krohne Inc. a leading manufacturer of flow and level measurement systems.

At Finesse Solutions, Mr. O'Connell will be responsible for worldwide sales of sensor and automation systems products. Mr. O'Connell said, "I am extremely excited to join Finesse, as I believe the company has a tremendous opportunity to solve many real-world problems in life science measurement and control applications."

According to Finesse Solutions CEO Dr. Barbara Paldus, "We are experiencing significant growth as our products are gaining acceptance in the life science industry. We are extremely pleased to have someone of John's caliber join our company, in order to guide the sales organization to meet our aggressive objectives."

About Finesse Solutions, LLC

California-based Finesse Solutions, LLC, leads the way in developing new measurement and control technologies, in order to enable the transition to single-use systems, bring new capabilities to existing bioreactor platforms, and harmonize global bio-process information transfer. Our current product family provides comprehensive measurement and control solutions for upstream processes in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries. For more information, please visit us at http://www.finesse.com.

Web site: http://www.finesse.com

Kimberly Lozada of Finesse Solutions, LLC, +1-408-327-6613