Frederic Prulliere received a BS and MS in organic chemistry and materials science from the Ecole Supérieure de Chimie et Electronique de Lyon and the University of Houston. He also received a MBA from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia in 2007. He worked for Encysive pharmaceuticals as a medicinal chemist from 2003 to 2006. He went on to work for Mettler-Toledo and Thermo Fisher Scientific as a product manager developing particle sizing probes (FBRM and PVM) and Infrared/Raman Spectroscopy handheld Instrumentation (TruScan). In 2011, Frederic Prulliere joined Spectra Analysis Instruments, Inc. where he is the Vice President of Sales and Marketing. He is responsible for the development of LC-IR and GC-IR instrumentation markets.