Gus Cardenas

VP & Head, Quality Assurance at Longboard Pharmaceuticals

Mr. Cardenas has over 25 years of quality assurance experience in the biopharmaceutical industries, including organizations such as The Bayer Corporation and Eli Lilly & Company, as well as several San Diego based biotech companies where he routinely functioned as the Head of Quality. He has supported programs for large and small molecules, medical devices and combination products from early pre-clinical and clinical phases through commercialization in the United States and the European Union. Creating and leading small to medium sized quality units, he has implemented effective quality and compliance systems from inception to maturity at numerous organizations while building out the respective supporting Quality Assurance and Quality Control departments. Mr. Cardenas obtained his B.Sc. degree in Biology with an emphasis in recombinant DNA Technology from San Diego State University.


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