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Andrej Petzold

Maintenance Supervisor in at J&J, in the lead of maintenance & calibration technicians – Calibration Site Owner / Sub Execution Process Owner „Calibration Oversight / Reference Equipment – eStream SAP / Business Owner and Key-User – eSTREAM in Engineering&Maintenance Schaffhausen – Data Analytics Specialist – Smart Maintenance Innovation Lead SHRead more

Sam Laermans

Sam, originally from Belgium and currently residing in Marburg, Germany, graduated as an Engineer with an additional Master’s degree in General Management from Vlerick Business School. Throughout his career, he has been involved in the Life Science industry, focusing on large-scale digital transformation projects. These projects included significant mergers and acquisitions. Following his consulting work,Read more

Carsten Holm Pedersen

With 25 years of experience and numerous roles Carsten is a true master of digital manufacturing in pharma and biotech industries. He has worked in depth with all major production modalities and application types. With a background in biochemical engineering and software development he has been leading development of advanced automation and PAT solutions beforeRead more

David Narings

Beginning in Life Sciences by helping MAHs in fulfilling serialization requirements on the shop floors globally, his recent activities consisted of supporting transformational programs to enhance patient centricity within the medical device industry, including wearables and implants. Since 2023, he is spearheading NNIT’s customer engagement across strategic accounts’ IT departments and line of business. HisRead more

Neil Wetherall

Neil Wetherall is the Managing Director of BatchLine UK. He supports industry and our clients mainly in Europe and the Americas. Neil has extensive experience in operations and supply chain management in a top tier pharma company and has also led the IT strategy for supply chain and manufacturing, implementing enterprise wide technology programmes acrossRead more

David Margetts

David Margetts is the CEO and co-founder of BatchLine, and focuses his advice, consulting, and technical experience for our clients in the Pharmaceutical and Biotech industries on quality, technology capability, and process performance. David has lived in Asia since 2004, has worked extensively across the globe on key assignments to build businesses, ideas, client relationsRead more

Sumeet Dalvi

Responsible for delivering technical competency, driving value proposition and revenue ownership for Emerson’s Process and Knowledge Management (PKM) software platform, across Europe. PKM software is designed to facilitate collaboration that improves time-to-market. It enables global sites, functions and leaders to work together to scale pharmaceutical recipes and execute technology transfers. Built using modern digital technologies,Read more

Orchun Thakral

Orchun Thakral, Sales director, has 15 years of Technical, Sales and Management experience in Pharma/Bio industry. He has exposure in highly regulated GMP environment associated with traditional pharma, biotech, vaccines, blood plasma and novel cell & gene therapy processes. The Pop in you job: Go digital, and skip the paper trail. It gives me greatRead more

Thomas Steiner

My name is Thomas Steiner and for the past 9 years I am acting as the Global Strategic Account Director for several major global Life Science companies. I am based at the Emerson Process Management Europe – HQ in Baar/Switzerland. 1993 after graduating as Mechanical Engineer (Bachelor of Science) specialized in Thermal Dynamics, I workedRead more

Thomas Halfmann

Thomas Halfmann is a long-time industry veteran and an advocate of digitalization in Pharmaceutical Production and Supply Chain with more than 30 years of experience in manufacturing IT and automation. After various management positions at Novartis, including Head Global Project Office, Global MES Program Manager and Global Head Biopharmaceutical Operations IT, Thomas co-founded the internationalRead more