Gerard Greco, PhD Takeda

Dr. Gerard Greco joined Takeda as the first Global Quality Officer of the company five years ago. Since that time he has led the transformation of Global Quality to one Quality Management System and established one Global Quality Leadership team. His scope of responsibility covers all elements of Quality in support of Manufacturing & Supply, R&D, Vaccines, and the Commercial businesses. During 2019 he has led the integration of Takeda with Shire, as Takeda has grown to a Top 10 Pharma company.    Jerry has over 35 years of experience in quality leadership roles in the pharmaceutical industry. He started his career as a microbiologist at Johnson & Johnson. He spent 17 years at J&J in leadership positions in microbiology and site quality. He worked at Wyeth as head of International Quality, Global Pharmaceutical Quality and later at Pfizer as head of Specialty Biotech & Vaccines Quality. Before joining Takeda in 2014 he worked at Teva as head of Quality for their global manufacturing plants.  Jerry is a graduate of Rutgers University where he earned a PhD in Microbiology & Molecular Genetics.  He has been a member of PDA for over 25 years.