With 20 years of experience in the Pharmaceutical Industry in the E.U., Dr Jean-Philippe Cros brings a wealth of expertise as a service provider and consultant. A registered Qualified Person since 2010, Jean-Philippe specializes in Quality Assurance, Batch Certification and Technical Operations (including Validation, Manufacturing, Warehousing, Distribution, and Project Management). He currently manages his own company, providing comprehensive services for the Pharmaceutical Industry. In the past, Jean-Philippe led the Quality Unit of an Oral Solid Forms production site (200 employees), taken part in over 40 quality audits and inspections, coordinated major construction projects, and managed routine batch release activities for several years. He also led the validation and qualification activities of a medium size (600 employees) manufacturing site and he later took the responsibilities of Production Management, overseeing production programming, operational troubleshooting, staff training, performance indicators implementation, and engineering activities. Jean-Philippe Cros is also the holder of a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the University of Bath (U.K.); he further conducted several years of postdoctoral research at the University of Bath and at the Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy) successively.