Raf De Paepe

Raf oversees the Contract Development Manufacturing Organization Strategy (CDMO-Strategy), Customer Relations Management (CRM) and Product Development (PRD) departments. The CDMO-Strategy department looks mainly from a technical point of view at which strategy is best rolled out in the medium and long term. CRM focuses on the coordination of plasma and intermediate flows in close cooperation with existing and new customers. The PRD department focuses on Process Development and Product Support.

Raf joined the company in 2003 and built an in-depth knowledge of the fractionation processes, growing through different operational roles : Quality Engineer; Assistant Manager Production; Manager Production; and currently, Director Operations. Maximizing output for a variety of customers (European-US) with a multitude of plasma sources and combining this with increasing quality standards (up to FDA-approval for US-clients), has been his major challenge over the past 15 years.

Previously Raf worked as a supervisor in a sterile compounding and filling department (Schering-Plough, now MSD).

Raf holds an MSc in Industrial Pharmaceutical Services from the Catholic University of Leuven.