Jim Andrews

Jim Andrews is Vice President of Facilities and Engineering at Bionova Scientific, with responsibility for maintaining and expanding facility and infrastructure capabilities in support of cGMP, Development, and Analytical activities.

Jim has over 30 years of experience in the pharmaceutical and drug/device sectors, with leadership roles at divisions of Novartis, Johnson & Johnson, and BASF. Within each of these organizations, Jim operated as a Subject Matter Expert for Engineering and Validation in regulatory and partner audits. Jim’s engineering roles have included responsibility for Facility & Equipment Design, Engineering, Construction, Maintenance, and Calibration, Sustaining Operations, Site Master Planning, Sterility Assurance, Shutdown Planning and Execution, and Environmental, Health & Safety.

Additionally, Jim has had roles within the Manufacturing Science & Technology and Quality Assurance organizations at these sites, leading cross functional teams in Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation of engineered systems and new product introduction and scale-up activities.

Leading up to joining Bionova, Jim worked as a Senior Project Manager for a well-established Architectural & Engineering firm in the Bay Area. His project portfolio there included leading design efforts at several large Biotechnology companies within their Manufacturing and Laboratory areas.

Jim earned his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Bucknell University and an M.B.A from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business.