Olivia Darmuzey, MSc in Pharmaceutical sciences, has for the past year been a production manager for the drug product manufacturing of the solid dosage forms unit in Novartis unique launch center... [ view bio ]

As a Certified Master Black Belt at Baxter, Victor's main responsibilities include developing and supporting the lean deployment strategy, ensuring a consistent and periodic presence in all sites... [ view bio ]

Christian Houborg, MSc in Engineering, has for the past 5 years been responsible for the Lean transformation at Lundbeck. Before taking on the Lean challenge Christian was responsible for Lundbec... [ view bio ]

Jyrki Syväri, Pharmacist and Chemist, made his PhD Theses in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and his Diploma in Chemistry in Analytical Chemistry. He joined Schering AG in Berlin and headed there a... [ view bio ]

Dirk Schrader became VP of Lean at AstraZeneca Global Operations in January 2010. Dirk is responsible for leading the Lean transformation programme within AstraZeneca Operations, which is taki... [ view bio ]

Gerry received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Indiana University in 1987, where he specialized in the development of novel mass spectrometric instrumentation. He subsequently joined Bristol-Myers S... [ view bio ]

Saroj Patnaik is the director of Global Life Sciences Industry group of Emerson Process Management located in Austin, Texas, USA. In this capacity he leads the sales and marketing of all products... [ view bio ]

In his current role Axel Schult is responsible for driving successful execution of Business Excellence (Class A, Lean Six Sigma) initiatives, which enhance the ability to meet customer expectatio... [ view bio ]

Rino is a physician who trained and worked in London. He has had a particular interest in pharmacology and held a number of senior management posts in the UK Health Service including Managing Dir... [ view bio ]

Robert (Bob) J. Ritchie, Ph.D., joined Corning in August 2011 as vice president, New Opportunity Development. In combination with his extensive technical background in the chemicals and material... [ view bio ]

Yolande joined Janssen Pharmaceutica in 1989 where she became European Purchasing Director, Pharmaceutical Manufacturing within Johnson & Johnson In that role, Yolande was responsible for t... [ view bio ]

Dr Evans received his PhD in Chemical and Process Engineering from Herriot Watt University and an MS in Instrumentation and Analytical Chemistry from UMIST. In addition to this he completed postd... [ view bio ]

John Chaffee is the President/CEO of North Carolina’s Eastern Region (NCER), a 13-county regional economic development organization. His multi-faceted economic development career spans 30+... [ view bio ]

Robert brings 26 Years of Sales, Marketing and Business Development experience in Pharmaceutical and International Life Sciences Companies such as Eli Lilly, Wyeth / American Cyanamid, Scherin... [ view bio ]

Dr. Sigurd Buchholz is the head of the Competence Center “Flow Chemistry” at BTS. He is also heading the Competence Center Reaktions Kinetics, Properties and modeling. He has an excel... [ view bio ]

After receiving a degree in Chemical Engineering Frank Laukel spent his first 8 years in the former Aventis Behring organization in Marburg, Germany. His primary function was as plant engineer fo... [ view bio ]

Wim Spook (BSc Engineering) is a professional powder handling specialist working in hygiene business environments for many years, and for the last 3 years for Matcon Ltd in the UK focusing on the... [ view bio ]

Jerry Parker is recently-retired Director, Pharmaceutical Development within Abbott’s Global Pharmaceutical Research and Development division. In his most recent role, he was responsible fo... [ view bio ]

Christoph Ebensperger is head of the company’s Business Segment Life Science. As a consultant, he has helped clients in the pharmaceutical industry. Assignments included many optimization i... [ view bio ]

Christian Daxboeck is currently head of the Business Segment Supply Chain Management (SCM) / Operations at Horvath & Partners. His main competencies are Supply Chain Strategy, Sales & Ope... [ view bio ]

Alex Durant, PhD in Sciences – Organic Chemistry, joined Ipsen as Global Quality Director, Product Quality in February 2011. He is responsible for the quality and GMP compliance of all Ipse... [ view bio ]

Amir Ghannad has over 25 years of experience in leadership and organizational development at Procter and Gamble and Sunny Delight Beverages Company. Amir, who holds a Masters Degree in Mechanica... [ view bio ]

John is a director of Orbsen Consulting and engages with clients in a number of sectors on value platform discovery in the supply chain at both a site and global level. Previously John worked for... [ view bio ]

Mario Hellings received his doctor’s degree in Science in 2004 and subsequently started working for Johnson & Johnson in the department of Analytical Development. Currently Mario is wor... [ view bio ]

J. Keith Crisco was appointed Secretary of Commerce by Gov. Bev Perdue in January 2009. He brings 40 years of experience in business and commerce to the position. For more than 20 years, Crisc... [ view bio ]

William O. Bullock, is Vice President of Bioscience Industrial Development for the North Carolina Biotechnology Center (NCBC), a private, non-profit corporation located in Research Triangle Park,... [ view bio ]

Martyn Johnson, European Investment Director North Carolina Department of Commerce has thirty one years of experience in the field of economic development working for both regional and state orga... [ view bio ]

Robert Maegerlein is General Manager and owner of Eukerdruck in Marburg. Having studied Management Science in Germany and France he joined the family business in 1996. Today he is also chairman o... [ view bio ]

Torsten Kiesser has been responsible for Global transfers for the last 5 years. Before, he worked for 3 years as Senior Project Manager for Sandoz’s PharmOps. Torsten has more than 10 years... [ view bio ]

Peter Boogaard is founder and CEO of Industrial Lab Automation which provides services to address harmonization, integration and consolidation of business processes in Life Science development a... [ view bio ]

Hans-Peter Mennet became a Global Transfer Project Manager at Sandoz in April this year located in Basel. Prior to this he held different positions in Pharmaceutical Operations for Novartis Pharm... [ view bio ]

Hans-Walter Hoehl became VP of Strategy & Projects at Bayer HealthCare Global Pharmaceutical Production in January 2011. He is responsible for defining the manufacturing strategy and executin... [ view bio ]

Ratna Sarma Kolachana (Ratna) heads Operational Excellence Practice in Cognizant. Ratna holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS), Pil... [ view bio ]

Stefan has a degree in Process Technology, specializing in Biotechnology. In 1995, he started working as Project Manager and System Design Engineer for Pharmaceutical Water Purification as well a... [ view bio ]

Simon Orchard joined Pfizer in Sandwich, UK as a Development Pharmacist in 1983. He became a Manufacturing Pharmacist in 1985 and held a range of positions in the Drug product production plant, i... [ view bio ]

Alan, Joined Camfil (Irl) Limited as Internal Technical Salesperson in 1990. Has operated in many roles since then and he has progressed to the above position based on his capabilities, training ... [ view bio ]

Ulf Köster is the Sales Development Leader for Oracle Enterprise Product Lifecycle Management Solutions in Western Europe. Enterprise PLM (also known as Product Value Chain Solutions) is a c... [ view bio ]

Craig Dobbs joined the Biosearch Group of Millipore in 1990 as a Chemist in the San Francisco, CA Office, focusing on therapeutic and diagnostic Peptide, Protein, and DNA applications for the eme... [ view bio ]