Fred Lowery is an accomplished and dynamic corporate leader with a proven track record leading teams to drive profitable growth. He has developed strong operating teams, launched innovative new products, acquired businesses, and successfully led organizations for over 25 years while working for several Fortune 500 companies.

In his current role as senior vice president and president of Thermo Fisher Scientific’s customer channels business, Fred has oversight of Fisher Scientific, the company’s industry-leading channel business for laboratory supplies used in academic and government research, Biopharma, healthcare, and industrial markets. As part of Thermo Fisher’s more than 100,000 employees and contributing to the company’s $40 billion in annual revenue, Fisher Scientific serves customers around the world by offering more than 2.5 million products globally, including lab consumables, instruments and equipment, safety products, chemicals, and life sciences reagents through a strong sales network and industry-leading website, fishersci.com. In January of 2022, Fred also assumed responsibility for Thermo Fisher’s business in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

Fred previously served as senior vice president and president of the company’s life sciences solutions and laboratory products business. At that time, he directly led businesses that contributed significantly to the company’s COVID-19 response efforts. Fred has been leading businesses representing more than half of the company’s revenue throughout his 17-year career with Thermo Fisher. Prior to Thermo Fisher, he served in various leadership roles in marketing, business development, procurement, product engineering, and operations at Maytag Corporation, General Motors, and Delphi Automotive Systems. Fred received a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from Tennessee Technological University and holds a master of science degree in manufacturing management from Kettering University.

Fred has been a catalyst for diversity equity and inclusion, and social responsibility both inside the company and externally. He is the founder and executive sponsor of The JUST Project at Thermo Fisher, an initiative named after the pioneering biologist Everett Ernest Just. As part of this project, Thermo Fisher has donated $32 million in instruments, kits, and supplies to enable COVID-19 testing at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to support the safe return of students and faculty to campus while committing to hire 500 HBCU graduates over a three-year period. Fred also spearheaded Thermo Fisher’s $25 million impact investment into Black-led financial institutions focused on supporting Black-owned businesses. He is one of the founders of the New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund started in the wake of the George Floyd murder to support charities that provide services to Black and Brown communities across Massachusetts.

Given Fred’s passion for community service, philanthropy, and the arts, he founded the Lowery Family Fund, which supports organizations and initiatives focused in these areas. The fund has endowed three scholarships at Tennessee Tech University: The Lowery Award for a student from his alma mater, Austin East High School; The Chi Lambda Chapter Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Scholarship; and the Dr. Leo McGhee Scholarship Award. The fund also supports ProjectGrad in Knoxville, TN, and Bottomline in MA, both organizations focused on student success in high school and college. The Lowery Family Fund is a founding donor to the Gaining Ground Fund at ArtsEmerson, which supports artists developing theatrical works from the African diaspora, and the Beauford Delaney Artist in Residence program at the Beck Cultural Center in Knoxville.

Fred gives his time to service as well. He serves as a member of the board of directors of DuPont, the Boston Medical Center and The Boule Foundation. At Tennessee Technological University, Fred serves on both the university’s board of trustees and its foundation board.

Fred is the proud father of four children and a native of Knoxville, TN.