CDMO Career Stories

In this episode Alex Alves Khan sits down with Ilya Koltover, President of Minaris Advanced Testing, a contract testing laboratory headquartered in Philadelphia, to discuss his career, craft and his read on where the industry is heading.Ilya joined the business as chief transformation officer before stepping up to president a few months ago. He talks about leading a testing laboratory through change, why grit matters more than polish, and why he believes comfort with uncertainty is the defining leadership trait going into 2027.What we cover:From transformation officer to president, and the value of knowing a business before you lead it.Why saying yes to opportunities has shaped his whole career.Grit as a business skill, and the honesty required on the harder days.Choosing the difficult brief, from turnarounds to building something new.Value for money, consolidation, regionalisation and a shifting mix of modalities.What the founding story of Genentech teaches about thinking like an owner.CDMO Career Stories is part of the Metric Podcast Network.

In this episode Sam McElroy sits down with David McErlane, Group President of the Biologics Division at Catalent, to discuss his career, craft and his read on where the industry is heading.Recorded in San Diego, David talks through 30 years in large molecule manufacturing, the patient story in 2002 that set the direction of his career, and the advice that made him stop taking opportunities as they came and start building deliberately.We cover:The T-shaped career and the three things you need to run a businessWhy he hires builders, not operators, and the cost of getting that wrongWhat he looks for beyond the CV: values-based decisions, judgment, change agilityWhere the CDMO talent constraint really sits, and why it is people not capitalAI as augmentation, Catalent's QAI deviation tool, and what it means for hiringCDMO Career Stories is part of the Metric Podcast Network.

In this episode Charlie Bexon sits down with Angelika Rublack, Global Head of Business Development at IDT Biologika, to discuss her career, craft and her read on where the industry is heading.

In this episode Sam McElroy sits down with Jordi Robinson, CDMO Commercial Leader, to discuss his career, craft and his read on where the industry is heading.

In this episode Alex Alves-Khan sits down with Nicholas Shackley, CEO at Gannet BioChem to discuss his career, craft and read on where the industry is heading.