Andy Skibo
Judging Panel Chair
VP Corp. Engineering and Capital Production, Amgen

Andrew D. Skibo is vice president, corporate engineering and capital projects at Amgen, Inc. Skibo joined Amgen in August 2004 with more than 35 years of experience in engineering and construction management at Monsanto, Fluor-Daniel, Genentech, Life Sciences International and Foster Wheeler Corporation. Skibo holds a Masters degree in chemical engineering and a Bachelors of Science degree in chemistry from MIT.

Nigel Barnes
Vice President, Global Project Management, GlaxoSmithKline.

Nigel Barnes is responsible for the delivery of the Capital Programme for GSK. This includes managing and continually developing the Project Management capabilities of GSK with a key part being the Project Controls Function.

Barnes has been with GSK over 20 years, joining after graduating with a BSc(Hons) in Mechanical Engineering. He has held roles of increasing responsibility within the Engineering Project Management functions, both on site and in the central function, including a 4 year period in South Africa.

Chaz Calitri
Senior Director/Team Leader, Pfizer Global Engineering

Chaz is a member of the Pfizer Global Engineering Leadership Team and has responsibilities for Engineering Operations and Technical Services. The EO&TS Team works across Pfizer divisions leading global initiatives in engineering operations (reliability based maintenance, energy program and utility operations); providing technical engineering support for capital projects and operating sites; and performing environmental due diligence, remediation and risk engineering. Chaz is also a member of Pfizer's Technology and Innovation Council.

Chaz has devoted his entire career (26 years) to the Pharmaceutical Industry, where he has held assignments in areas including: Production Operations, Engineering Project Management, and Site Engineering. He holds a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University and an MBA in International Business from Fairleigh Dickinson University. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in New York and New Jersey, and a licensed Professional Planner in New Jersey.

Christian Ilsoe
Vice President, Quality & Validation Assurance, NNE A/S.

Christian Ilsoe is Vice President for the Quality & Validation Assurance in NNE A/S. His position has the responsibility of setting up the quality concepts, approval of quality documents and doing all qualification work in all engineering projects for clients in pharma and biotech. After joining NNE in 2000, Ilsoe is a now part of executive management of NNE A/S. Ilsoe has more than 10 years experience as production director in pharma facilities at Novo Nordisk A/S and H. Lundbeck A/S. There he gained lot of experience for all manufacturing aspects in aseptic filling and packaging. Prior to that Ilsoe was a researcher at governmental institutes in Copenhagen. Ilsoe is also co-chair of ISPE's Technical Subcommittee for facilities. Ilsoe holds a Master of Science in Dairy Engineering (M.Sc. Lact) from the Royal Veterinary & Agricultural University in Copenhagen.

Brian H. Lange, P.E.
Director – Sterile & Packaging Operations Engineering
Merck & Co., Inc.

International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE)
Chairman of the Board – 2002-2003

Brian H. Lange, P.E. is Director – Sterile & Packaging Operations Engineering for Merck & Co., Inc. in West Point, Pennsylvania. His responsibilities include facility, utility and maintenance support for barrier, liquid and lyo manufacturing, packaging operations and capital project execution. Previous to his current position, he managed operations for vaccine and pharmaceutical production. Before his move into operations, he spent a portion of his 18 year career with Merck providing long range planning and engineering support to all facets of Research including facilities, solid and sterile clinical manufacturing and utility generation and distribution.

Lange is highly active within ISPE and served as Chairman of the ISPE International Board of Directors from 2002-2003. He is a past President of the Delaware Valley Chapter and winner of the Chapter’s “Buzz Lange Engineer of the Year Award” in 2004. He has served the Society as a course leader and speaker on many occasions and has been published in Pharmaceutical Engineering. Lange is a graduate of Villanova University with a BME and is a licensed Professional Enigeer in the state Pennsylvania.

Thomas G. Lyon
Vice President Global Engineering, Bristol Myers Squibb Co.

Thomas Lyon is the Vice President for Bristol Myers Squibb Global Engineering. Tom has more than 25 years experience in engineering, construction and facility management within the Pharmaceutical Industry.

He is currently responsible for all major BMS capital investments within the Pharmaceutical Division. Tom also works with Manufacturing and R&D operations to improve Engineering, Alliance Management and Capital Planning Processes.

Tom Holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from New York Maritime University. Tom is a licensed Professional Engineer in New Jersey.

Shinichi Osada
Chief Marketing Manager, Hitachi Plant Technologies, Ltd.

Shinichi Osada is Chief Marketing Manager of Pharmaceutical and Food Plant Engineering Division of Hitachi Plant Technologies, Ltd., newly integrated entity in Hitachi Group companies to deal with Design & Build and Validation services for bio and pharmaceutical production plants.

Osada joined Hitachi in 2004, after 31 years with JGC Corporation, to expand and strengthen its global strategy of bio & pharmaceutical plant engineering services, together with high-tech Healthcare fields of business such as manufacturing of DNA chips, Image diagnostic tools, Genome analyzers, Hospital Information Technology, Proton beam Therapy equipment, Production Management Systems manufacturing, RFID, Micro Reactor and etc.

Osada has been highly active within ISPE domestically and globally and has served as the first ISPE International Board of Director elected from Japan and Asian regions for 2002- 006. Since he attended the first ISPE International Conference held in Brussels in 1988 he has made great effort to introduce ISPE activities in Japan. Finally he has launched ISPE Affiliate in Japan in 2002. Since 1993, as a volunteer he has yearly organized Japanese groups of about 15-25 ISPE members each time to visit cutting edge and challenging bio and pharmaceutical production facilities in various places in USA and Europe combining ISPE global and local events. In turns he has arranged facility tours for ISPE overseas members coming from all over the world to Japan.

Osada started his career in 1973 after receiving his MS in chemical engineering from Niigata University . From 1993 to 1995 he was assigned as director of pharmaceutical engineering marketing division in the company's Paris Office, where he actively visited and contacted various pharmaceutical companies in Europe and USA to provide capital investment information of Japan, China and other Asian countries such as site condition, facility project and plant engineering resources, maintenance and site support services and local equipment suppliers in Japan, China and other Asian countries.

Ulrich Rudow
VP Worldwide Engineering and Real Estate, Johnson & Johnson

Ulrich Rudow started his career with Philip Morris in Switzerland and Canada as an engineer, and later as production and packaging supervisor. In 1971, he joined Schering-Plough in Montreal as manager of engineering and moved on to become plant manager, director, managing director, and vice president of operations and engineering. This career path led to Portugal, Brazil, Ireland, and finally, the U.S.

In 1996, Rudow joined Johnson & Johnson as Vice President, Worldwide Engineering, where he is now responsible for project management, engineering and design, strategic planning, real estate, and the newly initiated engineering leadership development program. These groups serve the global needs of all of the Johnson & Johnson companies worldwide.

Ulrich has a BS degree in mechanical engineering from the Engineering College, Hamburg and an MBA from McGill University in Canada. He also attended Harvard and MIT for executive programs.

Ronald Trudeau
Vice President - Facilities Engineering Services, Baxter Healthcare Corp.

Ronald Trudeau is the Vice President of Corporate Facilities Engineering Services at Baxter Healthcare Corporation; a position he has held for 11 years.

Prior to working for Baxter, Ron spent several years developing projects in related engineering and construction fields. In 1976 he joined Baxter (then Travenol Labs.) as manager responsible for construction of new manufacturing facilities in Puerto Rico; a position he held for 4 years. He has since held a variety of positions within Baxter Facilities Engineering. His current responsibilities include development and construction of new and expanded pharmaceutical grade manufacturing facilities as well as warehousing and major office facilities on a worldwide basis. His organization plans new and/or expanded facilities, provides cost analysis and budgets for approval, oversees design and implements the plan using a variety of construction managers and engineering contractors. His group also maintains a company wide Energy Engineering responsibility and provides an engineering technical support role for Baxter.

Ron holds a BSCE in Civil Engineering from Newark College of Engineering (now NJIT) and an MSCE in Construction and Management from The University of Missouri.