International Board of Directors Election

Meet the 2024 - 2025 ISPE Board

The ISPE International Board of Directors 2024 Election has concluded and the results are in. Below is the list of those members who have been elected to serve on the 2024-2025 Board of Directors.

The leadership transition between the 2023 - 2024 Board and the 2024 - 2025 Board will take place during the 2024 ISPE Annual Meeting & Expo on Tuesday, 15 October.

ISPE International Board of Directors Election Process

The ISPE International Board of Directors 2024 Election is open through 25 July 2024. Ballots will be emailed to all ISPE Members eligible to vote. The email contains a personal URL to access the ballot, review the nomination materials, and to cast your vote online. The personal URL can be used only once, and it can be used only by the Member to whom it was assigned.

Please review all candidate information and ballot instructions carefully prior to submitting your ballot. Once you have submitted your vote, you will not be able to recast your ballot.

Voting Instructions

If you encounter an error during the voting process, please contact Keith Wier, Account Manager, Intelliscan, Inc. by telephone or email. Candidates have been selected by the 2024 Board Nominations Committee and then approved by the ISPE Board of Directors as required in ISPE’s bylaws. We now present the nominees to you for your consideration.

  • Your ballot instructions will indicate that you can vote for one person for each Officer position and five people for the Director positions. This could be either votes for candidates listed, write in votes for any other ISPE Member, or a combination.
  • To ensure that our Board reflects the ISPE membership demographics, the Nomination Committee designed a paired slate to ensure representation from the Eastern United States, Mid and Western United States, Europe, and Asia.
  • You will vote for five (5) directors in the grouping.

Directors are elected to a two-year term and can serve up to two terms consecutively. The officer positions on the ballot are Chair, Vice Chair, Treasurer, and Secretary. The current Chair automatically becomes Past Chair in the next year and the President serves as a non-voting ex-officio member. Terms for officers are one year and the Secretary is the first officer position in the typical officer succession. Each candidate for Secretary is typically making a five-year commitment to serve in the roles of Secretary through Past Chair.

All voting must be completed no later than 11:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Thursday, 25 July 2024.

View the current ISPE International Board of Directors.


Meet the 2024 Candidates

Executive Committee

Jeffrey A. Biskup, PE
Executive Chairman of the Board
CRB
Chair
Vivianne J. Arencibia
Vice President, Global Quality Systems and Compliance
Moderna
Vice Chair
Ylva Ek
Founder
Robur Life Science Advisory AB
Treasurer
Secretary
Scott W. Billman
Senior Vice President Global Engineering, Technology, & Facilities
Solventum
Immediate Past Chair

Elected to a 2nd Term

David Churchward
Head of Operations Quality, Compliance and External Affairs
AstraZeneca
Norman Goldschmidt
President
Genesis AEC

New Directors

James Grunwald
Senior Vice President US Business Development
Arcadis
Shanshan Liu
Director
No Deviation Pte Ltd
Vivien Santillan
Regional Director, Asia
Novatek International

Board Members Continuing a Term in 2024-2025

The following directors were elected in 2023 to serve a two-year term and will continue their service to the board.

Liz M. Dooley, MSc
Senior Director, Global Engineering & Technology
Johnson & Johnson
Sarah C. Pope Miksinski, PhD
Executive Director, CMC Regulatory Affairs
Gilead Sciences, Inc.
Georg Singewald
Global Head of Quality & Compliance
Roche / Genentech
Timothy J.N. Watson, PhD
Vice President – Head of CMC Regulatory Affairs
Gilead Sciences

Emerging Leader Representative, Ex Officio

Rebecca Roscher
Project Engineer
Bayer AG (Supply Center Grenzach)

Candidate Nomination and Selection Process

Below are the steps taken for selecting candidates to be on the ballot:

  • Each year, the global membership of ISPE are asked to provide the names of potential candidates to the ISPE Nominating Committee. Candidates are proposed on the basis of a number of considerations communicated in the call for nominations including: strategic thinking, leadership skills, “business sense,” knowledge of the global pharma / biopharma industry, and the ability to commit the time and resources required to actively participate on the Board.
  • The Nominating Committee proposes a list of potential candidates for the vacancies on the Executive Committee and the International Board of Directors. The Board approves this list before the election.
  • Approved candidates are asked to confirm their willingness to stand for the election and to demonstrate that they have the support of their employer to serve.
  • Following the receipt of this information, the balloting process is arranged using an independent outside body, Intelliscan, Inc.

Intelliscan, Inc. conducts the entire election process and reports the results to the International Board of Directors.