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When Chris O’Connell took over as CEO of Milford-based Waters Corp. a year ago, he was the first new head of the analytics equipment maker in more than two decades.
Doug Berthiaume had not only been the company’s CEO from 1995 until last year, but was also the one who orchestrated a buyout of the 68-year-old company in the early 1990s, relaunched it with the help of Mitt Romney and Bain Capital, and then grew its revenue six-fold over the next 20 years. O’Connell says Berthiaume, who now chairs…