About

Thirty years spent making the interface work.

I am a chemistry-trained industrial engineer who has spent my career on the technical and commercial boundary between a medicine and the component that holds it. I began on the factory floor at Procter & Gamble, moved into packaging engineering and team leadership at Janssen Pharmaceutica, advised at PricewaterhouseCoopers, and led packaging and raw materials engineering at Pfizer before joining Datwyler Healthcare in 2007.

Over eighteen years at Datwyler I moved from technical support to global validation manager, project manager, sterilisation process engineer and finally Global Platform Leader for prefilled syringes and cartridges — a role that combined deep elastomer and regulatory knowledge with responsibility for where the portfolio would be in five years. I am Dutch-native, proficient in English and work in French.

Career overview

The through-line is ownership of difficult, unglamorous technical problems that block commercial outcomes: a sterilisation process nobody could validate, a qualification framework that did not exist, a customer relationship that had gone quiet, a portfolio gap competitors were about to fill.

Each of those was resolved with the same method — go to where the work is, learn the underlying science properly, build the team and the documentation around it, and hold the timeline.

Work Experience

1990 — Present

People Coordinator, QA Engineering

Limatri, on assignment at Johnson & Johnson Geel

  • Daily coordination of 20 FTE across facilities and utilities QA, equipment qualification and environmental monitoring.
  • Progress reporting, stakeholder management and quality management reporting.
  • Clear, timely escalation of status and issues to plant leadership.

Global Platform Leader, Prefilled Syringes & Cartridges

Datwyler Healthcare

  • Defined strategy for rubber components used in prefilled syringes and cartridges.
  • Closed a critical portfolio gap by leading a coated plunger from user requirements to launch in under two years, against typical five-year regulatory timelines — now progressing through qualification at multiple global pharmaceutical companies.
  • Secured internal investment for pilot equipment in wearable drug delivery, positioning the company as lead supplier of compatible rubber components in a segment with no existing solutions.
  • Owned market analysis, product marketing content, life cycle management and external representation.

Global Process Engineer, Sterilisation

Datwyler Healthcare

  • Rescued a repeatedly stalled steam sterilisation validation at the CEO's request, relocating to the United States for a year and delivering a validated process within twelve months.
  • Led an 11-person team spanning production, quality, R&D, supply chain and external contractors.
  • Enabled Datwyler to bring ready-to-use rubber components to market for the first time.
  • Maintained full product management coverage in parallel and hired the internal successor for the platform role.

Project Manager, Injection Systems

Datwyler Healthcare

  • Took ownership of a neglected project with a dissatisfied customer and no prior owner.
  • Built robust production plans grounded in validation and qualification expertise, delivered on time — the account went on to become the company's fastest-growing.
  • Managed budgets, resources and reporting across sales, production, engineering and quality.

Global Validation & Qualification Manager

Datwyler Healthcare

  • Built the global validation and qualification framework from scratch, covering facilities, utilities, equipment qualification and process validation for parenteral rubber closures and aluminium caps.
  • Trained roughly 20 engineers and quality managers across five production plants and supplied templates that cut documentation burden.
  • Proved the framework personally on a greenfield plant validation in India; it remains in use and customer-accepted today.
  • Member of the ISO 15378 task force on primary packaging materials for medicinal products.

Technical Support Manager

Datwyler Healthcare

  • Resolved complex technical problems for pharmaceutical customers and supported customer audits.
  • Coordinated customer service activity and developed technical documentation.

Lead Engineer, Packaging & Raw Materials

Pfizer

  • Led a team of six covering supplier collaboration, material selection, specification management, testing and validation.
  • Monitored continuous regulatory compliance across the material portfolio.

Principal Advisor

PricewaterhouseCoopers

  • Advisory work across pharmaceutical operations and quality.

Packaging Engineer / Team Lead

Janssen Pharmaceutica

  • Packaging engineering and team leadership in a global pharmaceutical environment.

Technician, Packaging Department

Procter & Gamble

  • First industrial grounding in high-volume packaging operations.

Education & Professional Development

Neuro-Linguistic Programming for Business

2025

Ontwikkelingsinstituut, Lokeren

Product Management & Product Marketing

2022

Product Focus, United Kingdom

Verpakkingskundige (Packaging Technologist)

1997

Nederlands Verpakkingscentrum, Gouda

Industrieel Ingenieur Scheikunde (Industrial Engineer, Chemistry)

1990

Katholieke Hogeschool De Nayer, Sint-Katelijne-Waver

Professional Affiliation

Member of the ISO 15378 task force — primary packaging materials for medicinal products, ISO 9001 applied with reference to GMP.

Core Competencies

Product Portfolio Strategy
New Product Development
Regulation & Validation
Cross-Functional Leadership
Project Rescue & Turnaround
Customer Relationship Management
Process Validation & Qualification
Market Opportunity Identification
Change Management

Languages

Dutch — native · English — proficient · French — intermediate

Professional Philosophy

A validated process is a promise kept to someone who will never read the protocol. That belief shapes how I work: learn the science rather than delegate it, write documentation an inspector and an operator can both follow, and treat every customer complaint as information the organisation has not yet acted on.

I lead by making the technical path visible. Teams move quickly when they can see the requirement, the evidence needed and the date — and when the person asking has done the work themselves.

Mission

To make parenteral drug delivery safer and more accessible by ensuring the components at the interface of drug and device are designed, validated and supplied to a standard that never becomes the limiting factor — supporting the shift of treatment from hospital to home.

Curriculum vitae

The full résumé, including detailed role scope and key achievements across Datwyler Healthcare, Pfizer, PwC, Janssen Pharmaceutica and Procter & Gamble.

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