ISPE Announces the 2024–2025 International Board of Directors and Honor Award Winners
The new ISPE International Board of Directors was introduced, the gavel was passed to a new Chair, and Honor Award Winners were announced on 15 October 2024 during the 2024 ISPE Membership Meeting and Awards Lunch in Orlando, US, during the 2024 ISPE Annual Meeting & Expo.
ISPE Board of Directors Immediate Past Chair Scott W. Billman (right) passes the gavel to incoming Chair Jeffrey A. Biskup, PE, (left).
Changes to the Board
Incoming Chair Jeffrey A. Biskup, PE, Executive Chairman of the Board at CRB, began his year as Chair. Outgoing Chair Scott W. Billman, Senior Vice President, Global Engineering, Technology, and Facilities, Solventum, moved into the Past Chair position of the International Board’s officers. The Membership Meeting included presentations by Billman, Biskup, and Michael Rutherford, 2024 Interim ISPE President and CEO, as well as reports on the financial health of ISPE and an update on the ISPE Foundation.
Billman gave an overview of ISPE’s accomplishments in 2024, which included the following:
- Distributing $154,785 to Affiliates and Chapters for local membership projects
- Reaching 22,000 members
- Starting new Communities of Practice (CoPs) for Sustainability and artificial intelligence (AI)
- Expanding professional development and custom training offerings
- Continuing engagement with regulatory agencies
“ISPE is positioned to drive expanded knowledge sharing across the industry,” Billman told attendees. He also thanked outgoing board members for their contributions as they stepped down from the board. Past members include:
Highlights and Updates
Rutherford welcomed attendees to the Membership Meeting and spoke about the ways the 22,000 ISPE members in 120 countries are helping shape the future of the pharmaceutical industry. “Our subject matter expertise is growing with CoPs. Guidance documents have added new ways to subscribe through institutional and corporate licenses. Conferences continue to highlight the innovative advancements within the industry through key education sessions, and the ISPE Foundation continues to provide professional development grants to students and recent graduates.”
James A. Breen, Jr., ISPE Foundation Board of Directors Vice Chair, 2022–2024, Vice President, Global Engineering and Technology, Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicines, introduced the ISPE Foundation Board and gave an overview of the ISPE Foundation’s accomplishments for 2024, including the Technology without Borders Program, which will provide essential ISPE guidance documents and delivered nearly $250,000 worth of training in Portuguese to individuals in Brazil, and the Workforce Diversity Pillar, which awarded a scholarship through the Women in Pharma® program.
He also thanked the ISPE Delaware Valley Chapter for establishing the Delaware Valley Chapter Scholarship Fund. The largest Affiliate/Chapter gift in the Foundation’s history, the Fund provides academic scholarships to aspiring students in the Mid-Atlantic region. This enables them to concentrate on their education and career development in the pharmaceutical industry.
The 2024–2025 International Board of Directors
Pictured from left are David Churchward, Je rey A. Biskup, PE, Mike Martin, Vivianne Arencibia, Vivien Santillan, Sarah Pope Miksinski, PhD, Shanshan Liu, Liz Dooley, MSc, Rebecca Roscher, Michael Rutherford (2024 ISPE Interim President and CEO), Timothy J.N. Watson, PhD, and Scott W. Billman Not pictured: Ylva Ek, Norman Goldschmidt, James Grunwald, and George Singewald, PhD.
Officers
Directors
Ex Officio
2024 International Honor Awards
The 2024 ISPE Honor Awards were distributed to recipients by Michael L. Rutherford, Jeffrey A. Biskup, PE, and Scott W. Billman.
2023 ISPE Roger F. Sherwood Article of the Year Award
Winners were awarded for Pharmaceutical Engineering® content published during 2023.
“Comparability Considerations for Cellular and Gene Therapy Products,” published in the November/December 2023 issue by Andrew Chang, PhD, Katherine Donigan, PhD, Kathleen Francissen, PhD, Sam Gunter, MPP (pictured), and Emily Hernandez, PhD
2024 ISPE International Emerging Leader Hackathon Winning Team
Milton Engineering
Team members
- Bonnie Brown
- Denzel Dollano
- Marcella Ayala
- Susan Gamboa
- Tiffany Lee
2024 Company of the Year Award
Takeda
2024 ISPE Affiliate and Chapter Excellence Award
Chesapeake Bay Area Chapter
2024 ISPE Committee of the Year
Pharma 4.0™ Baseline Guide Team
2024 ISPE Max Seales Yonker Member of the Year Award
Niranjan S. Kulkarni, PhD — Senior Director, Consulting Services, CRB
2024 ISPE Richard B. Purdy Distinguished Achievement Award
Roger Nosal — Head of Global Regulatory Strategy and Submissions, NGT Biopharma
2024 ISPE Joseph X. Phillips Professional Achievement Award
Antonio (Tony) R. Moreira, PhD — Vice Provost, Academic Affairs, University of Maryland; 2020–2024 Chair, ISPE Foundation.
The award was granted posthumously. Members of the Moreira family, pictured above, accepted the award on behalf of Tony.
