Hedley Rees is a practising consultant, coach and trainer in Pharmaceutical Operations and Supply Chain Management. Clients include pharmacos, from top 10 the emerging biotech, private equity, a global strategic consultancy, contract manufactures, facility design & build specialists and third/fourth party logistics service providers. Assignments span early stage clinical trial supply chains up to complex multi-product supply networks covering global territories.Prior to this, Hedley held senior positions at Bayer, British Biotech, Vernalis, Johnson & Johnson and OSI Pharmaceuticals. His skill set covers the range of competencies from strategic procurement, production and inventory control, distribution logistics, information systems and improvement. His early career was spent as an industrial engineer in the automotive, consumer durables and FMCG sectors.As an expert in Lean Thinking and Production Systems, Hedley is a zealous advocate of the regulatory modernization frameworks of FDAs 21st Century Modernization and ICH Q8 - Q11. He graduated from the University of Wales as a production engineer and holds an Executive MBA from Cranfield University School of Management. He is a corporate member of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (MCIPS), a member of the UK BioIndustry Association's (BIA) Manufacturing Advisory Committee and on the Advisory Boards of the International Institute for Advanced Purchasing & Supply (IIAPS) and Marken, the only supply chain service provider dedicated 100% to the pharmaceutical and life science industries.Hedley regularly speaks at international conferences and is co-chair of the highly regarded FDA/Xavier University sponsored Global Outsourcing Conference held in Cincinnati annually. In collaboration with Xavier Health, he works closely with industry, FDA, patient advocacy and other key stakeholders in finding solutions to today's supply chain integrity issues. Publications include:Book"Supply Chain Management in the Drug Industry: Delivering Patient Value for Pharmaceuticals and Biologics", J Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ 2011Journals"Virtual Pharma, But Not Virtual Responsibility", Pharmaceutical Formulation & Quality, Feb/Mar 2009"ICH Q9 and Beyond". European Biopharmaceutical Review, Autumn 2009"Delivering 21st Century Modernization Through Effective Supply Chain Management" European Biopharmaceutical Review, Autumn 2010"A New Model for Product Development" Chemistry Today (peer reviewed), Jan/Feb 2011