Mr. Antonio Buendia

Antonio Buendia, Director of Automation, GSK, Global Supply Chain Antonio Buendia joined GSK Vaccines as Director of Automation, Global Industrial Operations, in August 2019. He is a member of the Global Engineering Lead Team At GSK, he is responsible for establishing and executing the Automation Strategy, aiming to secure OT assets, setup the right foundations, simplify, and enable the next wave of productivity gains. Antonio joined GSK from Novartis where he was Global Head of Automation of Novartis Pharma. Before that, Antonio had roles of increasing responsibility at the Madrid Factory of Eli Lilly where he contributed to transform a local market supply site to OUS launch site. Antonio has more than 25 years of experience in the areas of Industrial Automation, Operational technology, Project management, Facilities master planning, solid dosage, liquid dosage, R&D laboratories, and qualification of facilities, utilities and equipment. Antonio holds a Master of Industrial Engineering from the University of Comillas in Madrid. Antonio is a founding member of the ISPE Spain, which chaired from 2007-2009 and as well as a member of the international board of Directors of the ISPE, Tampa from 2009-2011