The MGP Consulting Team
Marcel Goverde
Professional experience
- Release analyses for sterile and non-sterile drug products, excipients and active pharmaceutical ingredients
- Development of methods, qualification, validation
- Microbiological monitoring and data trending
- Growth promotion testing of culture media
- Container-closure integrity testing
- Examination of disinfectants and their efficiency
- Antimicrobial effectiveness testing
- Bioindicators for the validation of aseptic processes or decontamination purposes
- Validation of rapid or alternative microbiological methods
- Risk assessment, deviations, microbiological support
- Training sessions
- GMP and microbiological audits
- Lean Labor and Six Sigma- Interdisciplinary projects
Professional background:
Since 2011
Marcel Goverde has led his own company that specializes in training, consulting and project management in GMP-relevant areas with a focus on microbiology, hygiene and deviation management
2021 - 2022
Microbiological operations manager at a start-up company
2010 – 2011
QC Expert Microbiology, QA/QC Biological & Microbiological Services, ChemOps, Novartis Pharma AG, Basle, Switzerland Main tasks: drug substance release testing, antimicrobial effectiveness testing, risk assessments, deviation handling, LEAN lab, microbiological support
2002 - 2010
Team leader Non-Sterile Products, QC Microbiology, at F. Hoffmann - La Roche Ltd., Basle, Switzerland. Main tasks: product-release testing, microbiological support and monitoring, method development, qualification and validation, projects
Since 2004
Regular speaker for different institutions
Since 2003
Swiss delegate for working group 1 at the EDQM (European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines and Health Care), Strasbourg, France
1994 - 2000
Scientific collaborator at Hintermann & Weber AG, Switzerland, Post Doc and lecturer at the University of Basel. Practical training in the agro biological section of Novartis, Pro Natura and Longo Maï (Costa Rica). Teaching experience at the secondary school level, Switzerland
Languages:
German
Mother tongue
English
Fluent, very good writing skills
French
Fluent, good writing skills (second mother tongue)
Spanish
Working knowledge
Dutch
Fluent (third mother tongue)
Sabrina Kuoni
Education:
2022
Start of PhD position at University Hospital Zurich, Research of Obstetrics
2021
Pharmaceutical State Examination
2016 - 2021
Bachelor and Master in Pharmacceutical Sciences, University Basel
2016
Cambridge Advanced English Certificate in Noosa, Australia
Since 2014
Employee at MGP Consulting GmbH
Languages:
German
Mother tongue
English
Very good speaking and good writing skills
French
Good speaking and writing skills
Dutch
Speaking skills
