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. 
 
Fred became Executive Vice President and President, Laboratory Products and BioProduction for Thermo Fisher Scientific in April 2024. In this role, Fred has responsibility for the company’s Laboratory Products, Customer Channels and BioProduction businesses.

Before being promoted into his current role, Fred served as Senior Vice President and President for Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Customer Channels business. In this role, Fred had 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.

Fred also served as Senior Vice President and President of the company’s Life Sciences Solutions and Laboratory Products business. During which 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 nineteen-year career with Thermo Fisher.

Prior to joining Thermo Fisher, Fred 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 also 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 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 back on campus while creating a career path for HBCU graduates. Fred also spearheaded Thermo Fisher’s $25 million impact investment into Black-led financial institutions focused on supporting Black-owned businesses. Fred is also 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 Project GRAD in Knoxville and Bottomline in MA, both organizations focused on student success in high school and college. The Lowery Family fund was 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 DuPont Board of Directors, a member of the Board of Directors at 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.