William J. Conroy has been appointed vice president of operations and engineering at Microfluidics, a wholly owned subsidiary of MFIC Corp. In this position, Mr. Conroy will have P/L responsibility for the operating division of both Microfluidics and MFIC, including product design and engineering, production and purchasing. Mr. Conroy will also assume responsibility for overall systems quality and reliability, and will report directly to Michael C. Ferrara, chief executive officer.
   
Mr. Conroy has more than 25 years of high-tech product management, quality control and operations experience. Most recently, he served as senior vice president of production and operations at RemoteReality Corp., which designs and manufactures products for the military/defense and securities business sectors. Mr. Conroy has also held senior level operations, manufacturing and quality control positions at Northrop Grumman (formerly Fibersense Technology Corp.), Karl Storz Endovision, Circon ACMI and Kohler Co.