Senior Management

Mr. Kenneth J. Christie, Chief Operating Officer
(20 years of Industry Experience prior to joining VTS in 1998)

Mr. Christie comes to VTS Consultants with 20 years of experience in the areas of Manufacturing of Sterile Products, Quality Assurance, and Validation Management. Prior to becoming the Chief Operating Officer for VTS, Mr. Christie spent 13 years with the Parke-Davis Sterile Products Division of Warner-Lambert where he served as Manager of the Validation Department for 8 years. His main responsibilities were management of all validation activities associated with the plant’s equipment, utilities, computer control systems, and third party biotechnology companies. Mr. Christie also managed contracted validation personnel and defended all corporate validation practices to regulatory agencies such as the FDA, CBER, CDER, and the United Kingdom’s EMEA.

Mr. Christie also spent seven years working for Wyeth Laboratories Sterile Biological Vaccines Division of American Home Products as a Manufacturing Supervisor. Mr. Christie is an active speaker and/or trainer for several professional organizations within the US and Canada. On the international arena, he has provided pre-FDA audit inspections for foreign firms, along with authoring articles on the challenges of aseptic processing. In his current position, Mr. Christie serves as a trainer of numerous GxP related topics, provides regulatory consulting and commissioning services on a global basis and helps develop the corporate business plans.

Mr. Christie possesses a B.S. degree in Biology with a Chemistry minor and holds an Executive Masters Degree in Business Administration from Michigan State University.