James P. Agalloco, BEChE, MSChE, MBA Agalloco & Associates Inc.

James Agalloco is President of Agalloco & Associates, a technical service firm to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry.  Since the formation of Agalloco & Associates in 1991, Jim has assisted more than 200 health care firms in a wide range of validation, automation and compliance areas.  Jim has over 45 years of industry experience and has worked in organic synthesis, pharmaceutical formulation, pharmaceutical production, project and process engineering, validation and process automation during his career at Merck, Pfizer, Squibb and Bristol-Myers Squibb.  He received his BS in Chemical Engineering from Pratt Institute in 1968 and his MS, also in Chemical Engineering from Polytechnic Institute of New York in 1979.  He received his MBA in Pharmaceutical Studies from Fairleigh Dickinson University in 1983.  He is a past President of the Parenteral Drug Association and served as an Officer or Director from 1982 to 1993.  He is a member of USP’s Microbiology Expert Committee for 2005-2020.  He serves on the Editorial Advisory Boards of Pharmaceutical Technology and Pharmaceutical Manufacturing.  Jim serves on the scientific advisory boards of MEDInstill and Eniware.  He is a frequent author and lecturer on the subject of sterilization, aseptic processing and process validation.