Arne Zilian, PhD Novartis

Arne has 25 years of experience in the Pharmaceutical Industry. He has worked in Analytical Development, Chemical Development, Pharmaceutical Development, Manufacturing Operational Excellence and Manufacturing Science and Technology.

In Novartis, he was the global program lead for ‘Predictive Processing’ and for Continued Process Verification. He served as the lead author for the cross-divisional quality standards for process validation and for CPV. Over the last years, he was instrumental in building the Manufacturing Science and Technology organization. Until recently he lead the program for manufacturing data science in the Cell & Gene Therapy area.

Currently he leads the ERP transformation program for manufacturing systems.

In PDA, he has been engaged in the interest groups for CPV and for Manufacturing Intelligence.

Arne holds a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry and a Master in Chemistry.

He is also a certified Kepner Tregoe trainer for situation, decision and problem analysis.