Stefaan Van De Velde

Head of Quality Assurance, Regulatory Affairs & GMP Compliance at Ajinomoto Bio-Pharma Services

Ghent Metropolitan Area

About

Ethical Perseverant Continuous improvement Innovation (technical and way-of-working)

Experience

  • Ajinomoto OmniChem (27 yrs 7 mos)
    • Head of Quality Assurance, Regulatory Affairs & GMP Compliance
      Jul 2014 - Present · 12 yrs 1 mo

      Final responsibility for the following domains * Quality Assurance * Regulatory Affairs * GMP Compliance for the following sites * Belgium - Wetteren * Belgium - Balen * Belgium - Louvain-La-Neuve * India- Visakhatpanam and the following businesses * Pharmaceutical Fine Chemicals (drug substances / APIs and intermediates) * Amino Acids (APIs & intermediate drug product) * Natural Specialities (pharma, food, feed, cosmetic,...) * Agro/Tensiofix (surfactants and bii-stimulants for agro industry) Major improvement projects * guidance for the actual start-up of the API manufacturing site in India (Visakhaptnam) * guidance for the divestment of part of the activities of the Louvain-La-Neuve site

    • GMP Compliance Manager
      Jul 2006 - Jun 2014 · 8 yrs

      Responsible for the Quality Management System of the 3 sites of Ajinomoto OmniChem in Belgium (Wetteren, Balen, Louvain-La-Neuve) Major improvement projects * setting-up a new Quality Management System and preparing AminoScience Division for successful ISO9001 certification * implementation of a new ERP package (SAP, including Quality Module) * implementation of Sharepoint for managing quality related business processes * guidance and support to all authority inspections (US-FDA, BE-FAMHP,...) on all 3 Belgian sites * design a new Global Management System Guidance for the green field joint venture in India (Vizag), namely Granules OmniChem

    • Quality Assurance Manager
      Jul 2002 - Jun 2014 · 12 yrs

      Full quality management of Ajinomoto OmniChem's Balen site, while changing its activities to become a CMO (custom manufacturing organisation) active in manufacturing APIs (active pharmaceutical) Preparation of Balen site for its first (and several following) successful authority inspections, such at UK-MHRA, US-FDA, BE-FAMHP Successfully upgraded the ISO9001 certified Quality Management System of Balen's second business unit, namely manufacture of surfactants for the agro industry

  • Lab Supervisor at RHODIA CHEMICALS LTD
    Sep 1998 - Dec 1998 · 4 mos