Josef Künzle

Dr. Josef Künzle, Chief Quality Officer, joined Swiss Rockets as Chief Quality Officer after taking early retirement from Basilea in 2018, where he was Head of Global Quality Management in the independent Quality Unit, and as a member of the Extended Management Team since August 2015. He joined Basilea in 2007 as a Quality Assurance Project Manager. He was promoted in May 2009 to Head Quality Unit Technical Operations, a position in which he led the GMP/GDP QA group. In 2013, he became Head of Global QM.

Since 1989, he has held various positions in the pharmaceutical industry with increasing responsibility, from 1989 to 1998 as Analytical R&D/QC at Sandoz Pharma AG/Novartis Pharma AG in Basel (including FDA inspection on Sandimmun Neoral), from 1998 to 2003 in QC/QM at Carbogen AG in Aarau, and from 2003 to 2007 in QC/QM at Permamed AG in Therwil. Josef holds a PhD in Organic Chemistry from the University of Zurich (Switzerland) and was a Post-Doc in the Civil Engineering Department at Stanford University, California. Since 1997, he has given numerous GMP training classes in the area of QC/QA.