• Codon Devices (Cambridge, Massachusetts) reported the appointment of Kareem Saad to the newly-created position of VP of marketing and business development. Most recently, Saad was CEO of GulfStream Bioinformatics. Codon describes itself as a "constructive biology" company.

• Samplify Systems (Santa Clara, California) said that Carl Crawford, an expert in computed tomography, has joined its technical team. Crawford previously was VP of corporate imaging systems at Analogic. Samplify is a real-time signal compression technology company.