What is your area of expertise? 

My expertise lies in understanding what is necessary to transform complex pharmaceutical projects into streamlined, high-impact successes — from lab bench to scaling into commercial launches for both drug substance and drug product manufacturing environments.
 
I started out in pharma as a Scientist at a Contract Drug Manufacturing Organization, optimizing processes synthesizing small molecule APIs. There, I refined scale up techniques and learned the importance of regulatory compliance with respect to commercialization. Transitioning into project management, I utilized my technical background to design and manage project milestones, work with internal and external clients, lead large, cross-functional teams, and deliver complex projects on time in high-pressure environments.
 
Today, at Brenntag Specialty Pharma, I leverage this end-to-end expertise to find the best business solutions possible for our clients.  

What product or solution offering is your main focus?

The Value-Added Services that Brenntag Specialties Pharma can offer.  These services can range from blending solutions under cGMP or non-cGMP conditions, blending mixtures of solids, downpacking or uppacking solids, milling, and testing of finished goods for release are a few examples of the many services we can provide.  

How does this product or solution and your expertise benefit our customers?

The pharma industry has become increasingly competitive on many levels.  Any equipment or space at a client site is valuable and is likely being used to create essential medications that their patients need.  Tasks such as solution blending, repackaging, buffer or media creation, and blending of raw materials that can be moved off site to maximize productivity at the client site are all effective business solutions for clients.  If it makes sense to move an activity offsite, Brenntag Specialties has the expertise, global reach, and a strong team to deliver products with all necessary documentation for cGMP work. 

What key takeaways do we want our customer to understand with this spotlight?

That the pharma industry sees the evolution of Brenntag into a Best-in-Class Last Mile Service Organization with a new specialties group having veterans from the pharmaceutical industry. The Brenntag Specialties Pharma group understands industry needs and can facilitate discussions to deliver quality streamlined products.    

What trends does this product or service address?

That clients are increasingly moving tasks like solution blending, repackaging of raw materials, and blending offsite to maximize their productivity in their equipment.  While there are companies that can do this work, it would be difficult to find sites with appropriate regulatory requirements that can execute this work expeditiously and with all the proper documentation that is needed for Pharma level work.   

If available, please provide more background information in terms of uniqueness, sustainability or any other valuable aspects important to our customers.

Brenntag Specialties has a unique offering: Global reach and expertise of multiple regulatory environments.  This understanding and appreciation of compendial requirements, regulatory hurdles, and manufacturing bottlenecks allows us to deliver unmatched service.  The network of sites and relationships that we’ve established allows us to create biopharmaceutical buffers and solutions, mill material to desired particle size, blend solids, blend solids with liquids, repackage, and much more, all under appropriate regulatory conditions.  It would be difficult to find a provider with the product portfolio that we carry as well as Value Added Services on those products.