As the new vice president of sales, Scott Riggi will lead all sales activities for Block Engineering’s line of quantum cascade laser products, including its new LaserBench benchtop QCL spectrometer. Prior to joining the company, Riggi served as director of sales for the Americas at Princeton Instruments, a Roper Industries Co. Before that, he worked at Thermo Fisher’s Scientific Air Quality Instruments Group as its director of sales. He has also worked at Danaher Co. and Cookson Electronics, and has more than 20 years of sales management experience. “I am very pleased to welcome Scott to Block during this exciting period of accelerated growth,” said CEO Petros Kotidis. “His skills will be critical as Block introduces new products, opens new market opportunities and grows its commercial sales.” Block Engineering develops QCL and Fourier transform IR spectrometers for chemical detection and analysis for military, government, commercial and industrial customers. For more information, visit: www.blockeng.com