Kerry Potter Summit Consulting, Inc.

Kerry Potter gained his pharmaceutical manufacturing (API and Finished) experience during his 28-year career with Merck in Elkton, Virginia. Kerry’s career spanned the areas of Quality Operations, Audits & Inspections, Laboratory, Human Resources, and Learning & Development. More specifically, his responsibilities included project manager of laboratory assessment, FDA Quality Management System implementation, and GMP training (annual, ongoing, new hire); administrator of site quality performance, OSHA regulations and Process Safety Management training, as well as internal and external public relations.

He has received qualifications and certifications in the areas of facilitation and training, including instructional design and competency-based curricula. Kerry also received local and national awards for chapter management during his tenure as President of the Blue Ridge Section of the American Society for Quality Control, now the ASQ. Other current and past affiliations include Association for GXP Excellence, American Society for Training & Development, PDA, GMP-Training & Education Association, and Association for Quality & Participation. He is also a certified Pro-Trainer and facilitator, and an Advanced Toastmaster (www.toastmasters.org).

In 2006, Kerry founded Summit Consulting, Inc. in order to offer a combination of business and hands-on consultation, training and mentoring services for the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry. This combination is founded on the areas of project management of regulatory compliance and quality systems; quality assurance; quality systems audits; change control; laboratory testing; design and presentation of regulatory training; employee development; GMP and documentation; and regulatory agency interaction and communication. Kerry serves as the principal consultant of Summit and is currently supporting clients with Quality Systems remediation efforts, and GMP mentoring for pharmaceutical and API manufacturing. He also facilitates public and private on-site training seminars on regulatory compliance topics, both domestically and in Europe.