Kenneth W. Boone Merck & Co., Inc.

Ken Boone is a Director of Sterile & Microbiology Quality Assurance within the Global Compliance group at Merck. His current responsibilities include sterility assurance and aseptic processing for Merck sites globally that produce sterile and low bioburden products and to ensuring sites' compliance with current regulatory guidelines and expectations. Before Merck, Ken had a variety of global and site-based microbiology, aseptic processing, and sterility assurance responsibilities for Novartis, Mallinckrodt, Cardinal Health, and Pfizer. He has been a member of PDA since 2002 and is a founding member and former President-elect of the PDA Missouri Valley Chapter and currently President-elect of the PDA Southeast Chapter. Ken is a graduate of the University of Kansas.