Andreas Schreiner graduated from the University of Erlangen, Germany, in 1996 in Chemical Engineering. After a Ph.D. and a scholarship at the University College London, he joined Roche Vitamins as Head of Solids Processing. Since 2006 Andreas Schreiner worked for Novartis in various departments with increasing responsibilities from project leader to global technology platform leader; currently, he is heading the validation activities for pharmaceutical production of solid dosage forms. Andreas Schreiner is appointed board member at various scientific organisations (Executive Board of European Federation of Chemical Engineers (EFCE), Swiss Society for Process Engineers (SGVC), Industrial Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE), Swiss Laboratory of Material Science and Technology (EMPA)). Since 2013 he works for the Manufacturing Science & Technology Department as Validation Head for Solid Dosage Forms. 

Walid El Azab is an industrial pharmacist, a qualified person and a Lean Six Sigma green belt. He is a technical services manager for STERIS Life Sciences. He provides technical support related to cleaning, disinfectants, sterility assurance and process validation. Finally, he leads audits at manu­facturer sites and workshops to improve processes and inspection readiness level. Walid is a lecturer at a pharmacy and medicine university. He has published different articles and book chapters, and he is also part of working groups on sterilisation and EU GMP Annex 1 guideline revision. He is a plan­ning committee member of the Annual PDA Conference on Pharmaceutical Microbiology (12th and 13th editions), and part of the editorial committee of the PDA Letter. Walid is an observer member of the ISPE Belgium affiliate board. Finally, he is secretary of the Belgium Qualified Person Association.

Dr. Tim Sandle has over twenty-five years of experience in microbiological research and biopharmaceutical processing. Dr. Sandle is a member of several editorials boards, and he has written over six-hundred book chapters, peer-reviewed papers, and technical articles relating to microbiology. Dr. Sandle works for a pharmaceutical manufacturer in the UK and is a visiting tutor at both the University of Manchester and UCL. 

Jernej has a Master's degree in pharmaceutics. He has been in Novartis for eight years in MS&T (Manufacturing science and technology) department and has expertise in Product Validation, Packaging Validation, and Cleaning Validation.

Fred Ohsiek, who earned his BS in Chemistry from University of South Florida, resides in the NC RDU area. He has 25 plus years of validation experience as an FTE and Consultant, while specializing in cleaning validation.

He has been fortunate to work for 7 major pharmaceuticals (Catalent, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Teva, Astellas, Bayer, and Novo Nordisk) where he was considered the cleaning validation SME in most of his roles. Working with various routes of administration (OSD, parenteral, topical, and softgels) in green and brown field small and large molecule manufacturing projects has provided Fred with a very broad range of experience.

Fred also obtained “cleaning chemistry” experience while working as a Sr Global Technical Manager at Ecolab (Life Science division).

As Associate Director of Cleaning Validation at Eliquent Life Sciences, he and his team support industry by authoring tailored justifications, reducing the validation footprint via risk assessments, creating startup CV programs, remediating legacy processes, and increasing manufacturing capability.

He was one of the authors of the ISPE Cleaning Validation Lifecycle – Application, Methods, and Controls guidance, and he regularly presents at conferences nationally and globally.