Asylum Research of Santa Barbara, Calif., has appointed Monteith G. Heaton as executive vice president of marketing and business development for Asylum’s line of atomic force and scanning probe microscopes (AFM/SPM). Heaton joins Asylum with over 25 years of marketing, sales, business, and technical management experience, most recently as vice president of sales and marketing for Innovative Micro Technology. During most of the 1990’s, he led marketing for Digital Instruments. Prior to that Heaton held senior management positions with companies such as Interstate Electronics, Dynamic Solutions, Millipore, Waters Chromatography and Veeco.