Manufacturing 2025: COLLIER, ROB

In early 2023, Danaher, a Washington, D.C., conglomerate encompassing biotechnology, diagnostics and life sciences businesses, announced plans to spin off its environmental and applied solutions segment into a separate public company headquartered in Massachusetts and called Veralto.
A subsidiary of Danaher since 2007, Glen Allen-based ChemTreat is now part of Veralto, and Collier is now president of Veralto after previously serving as president of ChemTreat since 2021.

He was succeeded at ChemTreat by Ashour Khamis, who previously worked in Dubai for automation machinery manufacturer Emerson, and Khamis now reports to Collier. Veralto has 600 employees in Virginia, and 300 of them work at ChemTreat, which was founded in 1968 by a grandson of U.S. President John Tyler, Harrison Ruffin Tyler, who died in May at the age of 96.

An alumnus of Georgia Tech and the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, Collier was an 82nd Airborne Division paratrooper in the Army. From 2012 to 2018, he was employed in ChemTreat’s marketing division, leaving to become president of McCrometer, a flowmeter manufacturer and a previous Danaher subsidiary that is now part of Veralto.

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