*Not accepting new clients at this time*Jo Anne Valentino is an independent consultant to the life sciences industry with over 25 years of senior level experience in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology space with expertise in manufacturing, quality, customer, and people management. Most recently, Jo Anne served as Chief Operating Officer of Minaris Regenerative Medicine, LLC, a US based CDMO for the cell therapy industry. In this role, she was responsible for oversight of all US development and manufacturing operations. Prior to her appointment to COO in October 2021, Jo Anne served as Global Head of Quality for the Regenerative Medicine Business Sector of Showa Denko Materials Co., Ltd. and Vice President of Quality for Minaris in the United States.For more than seven years, Jo Anne worked at Novartis in quality positions of increasing responsibility, including Executive Director External Supply Operations Quality for the Americas region. In that role, she ensured robust quality oversight for a large portfolio of external suppliers and supported strategic initiatives in the region, such as product launches and transfers, network projects, business integrations, and global compliance improvement initiatives. Prior to Novartis, Jo Anne was in leadership positions at Merck and Schering-Plough in operations and quality, as well as product and process development at Reckitt Benckiser. Jo Anne holds a MS in management from Stevens Institute of Technology and a BS in chemical engineering from Manhattan College.