Atef Khezri has more than 16 years of CGMP manufacturing leadership experience working at global life sciences companies. Most recently he worked for Catalent at their Cell & Gene Therapy clinical and commercial manufacturing sites as an associate director of operations. Atef is well versed in the latest FDA guidelines and best industry practices and implementing engineering, procedural, facility and process controls around multi-product viral vector CDMO organizations. Before Catalent, he worked as an operations manager at Merck at their Virginia site, manufacturing the drug substance for Gardasil vaccine at commercial scale. Atef earned his Bachelor of Science degree in pharmaceutical sciences from the University of Toledo, Ohio.