Bernd serves as Vice President Product Delivery and has 18 years of industry experience in the pharmaceutical sector, covering a broad range of innovative medicines at different stages in development and post launch. He joined Quell from GSK Stevenage where he served as MPD Leader with overall accountability for the CMC development, governance and end to end supply chain of a portfolio of medicines (small molecules and cell & gene therapies) covering pre-clinical to late-phase development as well as commercial supply, incl. interactions with regulatory bodies.
Prior to that he was the Technical Director and a member of the site leadership team of one of GSK’s main manufacturing facilities in the UK. Before re-joining GSK in 2012 he held roles of increasing responsibility in process and product development at AstraZeneca, UK and India.
Bernd holds a postgraduate degree in Chemical Engineering (MSc+) from the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen, Germany, and is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers.