National team

Joan Anglés joined Vircell Spain S.L.U. in July 2014 as head of marketing for the Spanish market and in May 2015 he was appointed Marketing Director of the entire group. His more than 25 years of professional experience working in prestigious multinational companies in the healthcare sector, speaks for itself.

He began his career in the laboratory of infectious diseases and biochemistry at a hospital in Barcelona. After that he joined the Diagnostics Division of Boehringer Ingelheim (1989-1997) as Product Specialist first and as a Product Manager for infectious diseases after. In 1997 he began working at Innogenetics Belgium as Marketing Director (infectious diseases, genetics, neurology and autoimmunity) and in 2005 he joined Inverness Medical – later named Alere Healthcare – where he was also the Marketing Director for infectious diseases, autoimmunity, cardiology, coagulation, diabetes and drugs of abuse.

Joan has a degree in Biology and a postgraduate in Marketing from the University of Barcelona.

Sergi Gordillo joined the staff of Vircell Spain, S.L.U. in early 2015 with more than 10 years’ experience at a company in the same sector. As Product Manager, he develops activities for different product lines, a role he has occupied for over 8 years. Prior to that, he held a position as an Application Specialist for two years.

Sergi received a degree in Biology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and later studied DEA and Research Proficiency at the University Hospital Germans Trias y Pujol (Teaching unit of the Autonomous University of Barcelona).

His doctoral thesis was developed at the Department of Experimental Tuberculosis University Hospital Germans Trias y Pujol. In 2004, he completed his doctoral studies in the program of Clinical Microbiology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, obtaining the title of Doctor of Clinical Microbiology.

Alejandro Márquez se incorpora a Vircell Spain, S.L.U. en junio de 2016 como Especialista de Aplicaciones, con el objetivo de dar formación y soporte post-venta a Laboratorios y Hospitales españoles en referencia a nuestros productos y analizadores.

Alejandro tiene experiencia previa en una posición similar en una multinacional biofarmacéutica, en la división de diagnóstico. Además, ha trabajado en diferentes laboratorios de investigación básica y clínica. Durante su carrera profesional ha adquirido un gran conocimiento y manejo de diferentes técnicas y analizadores en los ámbitos del Diagnóstico in vitro y de la Biología molecular. 

Tras obtener la Licenciatura en Biotecnología por la Universidad de Vic, cursó un Máster en Bioingeniería en el Instituto Químico de Sarriá (IQS) de la Universidad Ramon Llull de Barcelona.

In January 2019 Cristina Sánchez joined the Vircell S.L.U team as an Applications Specialist. Her role is to provide pre- and post-sales support to laboratories and hospitals in Spain.

Cristina has 7 years of experience occupying a similar position in Menarini Diagnostics. She was taking responsibility for different aspects in the immunology line such as installations, trainings and demonstrations where reagents and instrumentation for chemiluminescence, ELISA, IFI and BLOT techniques were the main feature. In addition, she has conducted national studies such as the monitoring of biological drugs and also the development, validation and installation of the associated middleware, which entails the connections with LIS and the configuration of the results in accordance with each center. She is specialized in the attention, monitoring and resolution of incidents via VPN remote connection.

After studying Biology at the University of Barcelona, she completed a Master's Degree in Biomedical Research at the Pompeu Fabra University, which allowed her to do the thesis in the Digestive Unit of the Germans Trias i Pujol Institute based on mice with induced colitis by DSS as an animal model.

Laura joined Vircell Spain in October 2019 as an application specialist to provide pre-sale and post-sale support to Laboratories and Hospitals mainly in the northeast area of ​​Spain.

After studying Biomedical Sciences at the University of Barcelona, ​​he completed a Master's Degree in Advanced Microbiology at the same University and carried out his PhD studies (in UAB) at the Vall d'Hebron Hospital in Barcelona, carrying out the thesis on "Virological surveillance of the human syncytial respiratory virus: epidemiology and molecular characterization". She also made a stay at the Hôpital Universitaire Pitie --‐ Salpêtrière - Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Sorbonne) in Paris. She is the author of many posters in microbiology conferences as well as lots of articles in specialized magazines.

Laura has previous job experience as a Laboratory Technician in the Virology Unit at the Vall d´Hebron Hospital in Barcelona. Also, her last job experience before joining Vircell was R&D Project Management in the diagnostic sector company called Biokit.

Andres Pulido joined Vircell Spain, S.L.U in July 2014 as the National Sales Director and is responsible for selling our products in the Spanish market. He has more than 28 years of professional experience in prestigious multinationals in the health sector.

He began his career in two private clinical laboratories in Madrid: Clinlab and Counter Labor where he worked as a Technician Specialist. In 1986 he began working in the Diagnostics Division of Boehringer Ingelheim, first as a sales representative and a year later as regional sales manager. In 1997 he became part of the Belgian company Innogenetics holding the same position of Sales Manager for the eastern half of Spain. He joined the American company Inverness Medical-Alere in 2005, where he held the position of National Sales Director with much success.

Andres Pulido has completed several business courses, as well as Management and Sales of IESE machines.

Jose Maria Saiz became part of Vircell Spain, S.L.U in January 2015, joining the commercial department of the Central Zone. He is directly responsible for marketing of our products in Madrid, Castilla La Mancha and the provinces of Salamanca and Segovia in Castilla León. Has has more than 26 years of professional experience working at leading multinational companies in the health sector.

He started his career in the Clinical Analysis laboratory of Counter Labor Madrid. Later he became part of Boehringer Ingelheim, where he worked in the Diagnostic Division as a Commercial Officer and Area Coordinator for almost a decade. In 1997, he worked as the Commercial Officer at Innogenetics Belgium, with a focus on genetics, neurology and autoimmune and infectious diseases. Starting in 2005 he served as Regional Head of Sales and Business Consultant of Portugal for Inverness Medical, before it became Alere Healthcare.

José Maria Saiz has completed several business courses as well as management and direction of business equipment.

Francisco Ponz began working at Vircell Spain, S.L.U in March 2015 as a Commercial Technical Delegate for the central zone where he markets our products.

He began his career at the General Hospital of Valencia as an Internal Family doctor. Later he joined the province of Cuenca in different Primary Areas of Health. Acting as MIR, he subsequently joined the University Hospital La Fe de Valencia at the service of microbiology (1992-1995). Continuing in the diagnostics industry in 1996, he worked for bioMerieux España where he held various positions: ATA, ID / AST Product Manager, and National Training Manager and Head of ATAS, Quality Manager, Director of Marketing, Director of Customer Care Service (SAC), Scientific Director and Clinical Aproch Ibérico, bacteriology Product Manager, before leaving the company in February 2015.

Francisco holds a degree in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Valencia, General Family and Clinical Medical Microbiology and has a Master in Business Management from ESADE.

In February 2015 Vicente Calduch Sancho joined Vircell Spain, S.L.U as a Sales Manager in the Community of Valencia, Murcia and Albacete.

He began his career in 1987 with a position managing commercial and administrative hospitals, focused on implants and prostheses for orthopedic surgery as well as Operating Room instrumentation. From 1988-89 he served as the commercial delegate in Valencia and Murcia, functioning as a business management supplier and distributor, and selling directly to customers, research centers and microbiology laboratories (Hispanlab SA). From there he began working at Sumilab S.L. in the fields of autoimmunity microbiological, infectious serology, scientific instrumentation and consumable materials in the Communities of Valencia and Murcia.

From 1992-2015 he worked at Diasorin Iberia SA in the business unit of infectious serology, molecular biology, tumor markers and hormones, autoimmunity, biotechnology and instrumentation.

Designing sales strategy, market research, analysis and segmentation of customers, prospects, sales management, and laboratory management.

Juan Benitez joined Vircell Spain, S.L.U in September 2014, and since the beginning has helped with Vircell’s forward project of creating its own commercial network in Spain. He holds the position of sales representative for southwestern Extremadura and Andalusia.

Before and during the period of 2005-2014, he developed his skills in the Sales Department as Sales Manager of the said areas, as well as Murcia, part of eastern Andalusia and the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla for the international company Innogenetics Diagnóstica and later Fujirebio. Here he marketed diagnostic assays in the fields of infectious diseases, genetic testing, transplantation, neurodegeneration and oncology, mainly focused on the molecular and multiparameter diagnosis.

Juan studied at the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Seville, and also has commercial sales experience in the financial and insurance sector.

Rafael Gutiérrez Cabrera joined Vircell Spain in January 2016 as a sales representative for the Eastern Andalusia region, as well as the autonomous cities of Ceuta y Melilla.

He started his professional career in 1979 at the Laboratorio Substancia, in their General Diagnostics division. From 1980, he worked for Boehringer Ingelheim until their diagnostics division was acquired by Innogenetic in 1990. Ten years later, it became Ivernes, and then Alere, where he worked until 2015.

Rafael possess a Degree in Industrial Chemistry. He has also completed multiple training courses in sales and negotiation.

Jaime Regueiro joined Vircell Spain S.L.U as a sales representative for the northwestern region of Spain in February 2015. His previous experience includes more than 25 years working for different companies in the diagnostic sector.

He began his career as an intern for the COMET project, working in the Department of Commercial Intelligence at the pharmaceutical company, Wellcome Foundation Ltd. in London where he worked as an international market analysis. After the internship, he worked for Sorin Biomedica, now known as DiaSorin, as sales representative in the Spanish northeast. After a move to Madrid, he continued to work for the company, occupying various positions such as sales representative of the central area, applications, chief of infectious products and marketing director for the areas of infectious diseases, biochemist and autoimmunity.

After working for the same company for 19 years, he decided to make a change and began working for Becton Dickinson. During his time here, he worked as a diagnostics sales representative in the northeast, and was also responsible for the molecular biology section for the northern area. In 2014 he was named the best sales representative in Europe in the Diagnostic division.

Jaime has a degree in Pharmacy (Industrial Branch) and has three Masters (2 in Marketing and Sales Management ESIC Schools and MBA, and another in IT Management by Microsoft).

Luis Ángel joined Vircell Spain S.L.U as the Sales Manager of the northern zone, Castilla y León (Burgos, Palencia, Valladolid and Zamora), País Vasco, Navarra and La Rioja in October 2015. He brings with him more than 30 years of experience as a Sales Manager at different multinational companies in the sector.

He started his professional life at CEMASA (1984 – 1989) as a purchasing manager in Castilla y León. After that, he worked for the Diagnostic Division of Boehringer Ingelheim (1989 – 1997) as a Sales Manager in the same area. In 1997, he joined Innogenetics where he was responsible for the sales of the infectious diseases, genetics, neurology and autoimmunity product lines. He began working for Inverness Medical, later Alere Healthcare, as a Sales Manager of Castilla y León, País Vasco, Cantabria and La Rioja in 2005.

Luis Ángel has completed numerous courses and training sessions in sales and customer management.

Ricard Valles joined Vircell Spain S.L.U in February 2015, as a sales representative for Catalonia and the Balearic Islands, bringing with him 8 years of experience in the same role at other companies in the sector of Diagnostic for Clinical Laboratories.

Ricard has extensive experience in the commercial sector, where he has developed his career for 28 years, dealing with the management and development of purchase and sales at both the regional and national levels.

After completing studies at Bachelor level, he has continued to expand his knowledge, completing various courses in sales and marketing at the prestigious Gustav Käser International and EADA Business School Barcelona.

Ricard Simo began working with Vircell Spain S.L.U in March 2015, after having accumulated 30 years of experience in the sector.

During this time he was responsible for after-sales technical service for all of Spain and assisted in obtaining ISO quality certificate.

Before this, he spent 7 years in charge of maintenance service in a hemodialysis clinic in Barcelona, where he participated in the development processes of a treatment for dialysis that culminated in obtaining two patents.

His technical training includes a master in Industrial Electronics, as well as a number of technical training courses related to his job.

In October 2015 José Luis joined Vircell in the Department of Instrumentation and Marketing to provide technical Support for all Vircell instruments in Spain.

His profesional career began in 1993 with the company Boehringer Ingelheim – later Alere Healthcare – in the Technical Medicine Division as an Instrumentation Technician. During more than 20 years of experience in the sector, he performed installations, maintenance and demonstration of a vast number of automated machines in Microbiology, Serology and Molecular Biology laboratories.

José Luis holds a degree as a Specialist in Industrial Electronics, and has completed a number of technical courses on machines and instruments.

Enrique Martínez began working with Vircell Spain S.L.U as instrument technician in March 2017.

During this time he was responsible for the after-sales technical service for all of Andalusia and the autonomous city of Melilla.

Previously, he was a freelance technician in hemodialysis monitors and diagnostic equipment (Gambro, Baxter, Fujirebio, Alere Healthcare).

He has got a higher degree in Regulation Systems and Automatic Controls and he has also specialized as an Electromedicine Technician.

Jorge joined Vircell Spain’s Department of Instrumentation in February 2019 to provide technical support for the northwest area of Spain.

Before joining Vircell, Jorge worked for several years, among others, for the Electromedical Business Group Company in preventive and corrective maintenance of the electronic modules and equipment used in the diagnosis, care and treatment of patients in different hospitals in Galicia and Castilla-León. Jorge is a Senior Industrial Engineer from the University of León and has a broad specialized training in technical maintenance of equipment and instruments.

Aarón is part of Vircell Spain’s Department of Instrumentation since December 2018. He mainly deals in providing technical support for the south area of Spain.

Prior to his joining in Vircell Spain, Aarón worked as a facilities, machinery and logistic maintenance operator for BIDAFARMA. Aaron has the title of Senior Technician in Automation and Industrial Robotics from the Ave María Institute in Granada and has carried out a large number of training activities specializing in the maintenance of diagnostic instruments.