PeopleIndustrial Advisory Board
Twice each year (in October and March), the MBP’s Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) members convene at Northwestern University for the Research Symposium where they meet with the students and evaluate and mentor them on effective professional communication. Separately, the IAB members meet annually with the MBP director and faculty members and advise them with respect to key industry developments, relevance of the MBP curriculum, and actions required to maintain competitiveness and relevance of the program.
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Current Members

Felicia Bogdan
Director of Research and Development, Abbott - North Chicago, IL

Jeff Boesiger
Managing Partner, Ospree Consulting Group - Greater Los Angeles Area, CA

Edna Choi '05
Sr. Director, Documentary Standards Operational Excellence, US Pharmacopeia - Maryland

Paul Collins
VP & Sr Research Fellow, Bioproduct R&D, Eli Lilly and Company - Indianapolis, IN

Shara Dellatore
Executive Director, Cell Based Sciences, Merck & Co., Inc. - New Jersey

Connor Feeney
Sr M&A Analyst, Medline Industry - Wilmette, IL

Tyler Gadoury

Chetan Goudar
Vice President, Amgen Process Development - Thousand Oaks, CA

Michael Köpke
Chief Innovation Officer, LanzaTech - Greater Chicago Area, IL

Frank (Yunsong) Li
Executive Director, US Head of PD and MSAT, WuXi Biologics - Cranbury, New Jersey

Andy Lin
VP & Global Head, Individualized & Cell Therapy Dvlpmt, Genentech - San Francisco, CA

Ameet Mallik

Jonathan Mauro
Director - Strategy and Consulting, Pfizer - New York City, New York

Purbasa Patnaik

David Peritt
Founder & CSO, Lupagen - Irving, TX

Katherine Radwanski
Asset Strategy Leader, Oncology - Solid Tumors, Abbvie - Highland Park, IL

Francisco Rausa
Director, Digital Health and Innovation, AbbVie - North Chicago, IL

Albert Schmelzer
Head Viral Vector Process Development, Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - Gaithersburg, MD

Andrea Schoen
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Heirloom - Chicago, IL

He (Justin) Wang
Principal Scientist, Roche - Cambridge, MA

Gale Wichmann
Past Members
David Amrani
Founder, Amrani Consulting, LLC - Milwaukee, WI
Jason Backus
Technology Manager, DuPont Industrial Biosciences - Beloit, WI
William Bentley
Distinguished University Professor of Bioengineering, University of Maryland - College Park, MD
Deepika Bhatia
Principal Consultant, Slalom Consulting - St. Louis, MO
Doug Cameron
Co-President & Director, First Green Partners - Minneapolis, MN
Kathy Carswell
Senior Engineer, Genentech - San Francisco, CA
Susan Casnocha
Research Fellow, Pfizer - Greater St. Louis Area, MO
Eric Emery
Independent Consultant, Biomanufacturing-Greater Los Angeles Area, CA
David Giljohann
Chief Executive Officer, Exicure - Skokie, IL
Shivani Gupta '08
Senior Associate Scientist, Amgen - Thousand Oaks, CA
Latonia Harris
Scientific Director, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Johnson & Johnson - Princeton, NJ
Aaron Kelley
Vice President of Manufacturing, NewLeaf Symbiotics, Inc. - Greater St. Louis Area, MO
Fred Koller
Executive VP, Business Development, Miltenyi Biotec - San Diego, CA
Steven Lee
Global Head, Technical Operations & CEO, Singapore Operations, DRL Biologics - Singapore
Sigma Mostafa
Vice President, Upstream & Downstream Process Development, KBI Biopharma - Durham, NC
Vasantha Nagarajan
Founder, Brandywine Biotechnology Consultants, LLC - Wilmington, DE
Catherine Nguyen
Anli Ouyang
Sr. Director, Molecular Biology, Fermentation, and Cell Culture, Eli Lilly and Company - Indianapolis, IN
Joe Palac '09
Production Manager, Materion Corporation - Milwaukee, WI
E. Terry Papoutsakis
Eugene DuPont Chair of Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware Newark, DE
James Piret
Masood Qader '14
Associate Consultant, ZS Associates - Greater Chicago Area, IL
Carl Radosevich '07
Head of Corporate Planning, Manager of Product and Business Intelligence, Panasonic Healthcare - Wood Dale, IL
Michael Rosen
Partner Consultant, Aagami, Inc. - Chicago, IL
Managing Director, Rosen Bioscience Strategies LLC - Chicago, IL
David Roush
Distinguished Scientist, BioProcess Development,& Merck Research Labs - Greater NY City Area, NY
David Russell
Operating Partner, Lewis & Clark Partners, AgriFood - Clayton, MO
Karna Shah '12
Scientist II, AbbVie - Worcester, MA
Sean Simpson
Chief Scientific Officer & Co-Founder, LanzaTech - Skokie, IL
Vinod Srinivasan '06
Research Associate, Biomass Applications Group, DuPont Industrial Biosciences
Anne Thiel '11
Senior Fermentation Research Associate, Newlight Technologies - Irvine, CA
Christopher Tomas
Director, Technical Operations, AbbVie - North Chicago, IL
Inn Yuk
Senior Group Leader and Principal Engineer, Early Stage Cell Culture BioProcess Development, Genentech - San Francisco, CA