Susanne Rommel, PhD, MBA Gilead

Susanne Rommel, Ph.D., MBA, is the Executive Director, Quality at Gilead for Commercial OSD and Quality Systems. She leads a team of Quality professionals providing oversight to Contract Manufacturing Organizations, managing Global Product Quality Complaints and Gilead’s Annual Product Reviews. Susanne started her career as an Artificial Intelligence data scientist at Bayer in Germany.

An expat assignment in Quality Assurance at Bayer Berkeley site brought her and her family to the Bay Area, where she continued her career holding diverse positions in Quality Assurance, Quality Engineering, and Quality Control. She earned her Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and her Master degree in Biology from the University of Hamburg, Germany, and holds an MBA from Santa Clara University.