ABOUT BENCHTOP STRATEGIES
Benchtop Strategies, LLC is a business development consultancy founded in 2025 and based in Eden, Utah. The firm takes life science tools, diagnostics, and medtech manufacturers into new countries through qualified distributors, and manages those channels after launch.
Clients work directly with the principal on every engagement.
CURTIS ANDERSON, FOUNDER AND PRINCIPAL
Curtis has worked on the commercial side of laboratory products for more than 25 years. Most of that time has been spent outside the United States, opening markets and managing the distributors for life science manufacturers. His deepest experience is in Asia Pacific, the Americas and Europe.
He started as a distributor in 1999, running his own distribution company, Medical BioProducts. He moved to the manufacturing side of the business in 2003 and understands business from the distributor's chair.
Curtis also serves as General Manager of Global Business Development for Funakoshi Co., Ltd. in Tokyo, engaged through Benchtop Strategies, and advises on global distribution network expansion.
RECENT ENGAGEMENTS
Funakoshi Co., Ltd., Tokyo. Global business development, including U.S. market entry and international dealer recruitment. 2026 to present.
CAREER
Corning Life Sciences. Global Business Development Specialist, 2023 to 2025. Built global private label and OEM business with distributors, then led the turnaround of a portfolio of underperforming brands and product lines.
Re:Build Manufacturing. Director of Business Development, 2022 to 2023. Led business development across divisions serving six industries, with emphasis on life science products. Organized the first Re:Build Life Science Summit.
Biotix, Inc. Senior Director of Sales, Asia Pacific and Latin America, 2012 to 2022. Led international sales through distribution partners in both regions, including more than a dozen partners in Asia Pacific, and guided those distributors through the company's acquisition by Mettler-Toledo.
Biotix, Inc. Business Development Manager, North America, 2008 to 2012. Covered a 25-state and Canadian territory, worked with more than 400 distributor field representatives, built private label programs across the Americas, and managed key OEM accounts.
Microflex Corporation. International Sales Manager, 2004 to 2008. Appointed 42 new distributors across Europe, Asia, the Americas, the Middle East, and India.
Nalgene (Thermo Fisher Scientific). Global Product Manager for branded hydration, private label, and OEM, 2003 to 2004.
Education. B.A., Business Marketing and Russian Language, Utah State University, Jon M. Huntsman School of Business, 2002.
Languages. English and Russian (professional working proficiency).