John Chiminski
The Power List 2018 – Business Captains
John Chiminski
President and Chief Executive Officer, Catalent
“Honestly, I wish I could’ve known that as an electrical engineer, I would one day be working in the pharma and biotech industry. Although my engineering background has served me well, I would have spent more time learning the life sciences disciplines of biology and chemistry! What drives me? Being responsible for 1,000 customers and more than 11,000 employees at Catalent. The patient is the common factor behind both of these groups and ensures that our priorities and decisionmaking deliver safe and effective medicines. I would like to see more standardization of regulatory requirements across all global agencies. There are still significant differences in requirements, and how inspectors interpret these requirements through their inspections, that lead to ‘patch-work’ solutions and processes. This, in turn, leads to variability and additional costs that don’t necessarily equate to better quality or control.”
