Lead Trainer
Maurice Parlane
Principal of New Wayz Consulting Ltd, New Zealand & Director, CBE Pty Ltd, Australia
Maurice is a professional engineer with 29 years’ experience within the biopharmaceutical industry, including 19 years as an industry consultant providing support to manufacturing and compliance management; validation and operational excellence projects in Australasia and the Asia Pacific region. Prior to this, he held senior engineering and manufacturing roles within the Glaxo group of companies.
He has a Bachelor of Manufacturing Technology (Hons) as well as mechanical and electrical engineering qualifications. Maurice is past president and current director of the ISPE Australasian Affiliate. He is the co-lead of ISPE’s Asia Pacific Regulatory and Quality Harmonization committee and a member of the PV and Guidance Document committees. He is an ISPE PV Instructor and was named ISPE Member of the year in 2016.
Patrick Toh
Sales & Marketing Director, REPASSA Group, Singapore
Patrick Toh, Sales & Marketing Director, REPASSA Group, Singapore
Patrick has 14 years of experience working with sanitary pumps in the pharmaceutical industry. During his time in REPASSA, he conducted training, site acceptance test and responds to on-site troubleshooting for installed pumps.
Richard Chai Yoke Leong
Technical Service Manager
STERIS Corporation
As a Technical Service Manager with STERIS Corporation based in Singapore, Richard has been providing technical training to customers in topics related to cleaning and bioburden control for cleanrooms, including disinfectant validation, as well as cleaning and cleaning validation for product contact surfaces. He is also an industry speaker at ISPE events and Interphex Japan.
Prior to joining STERIS, Richard had 13 years of manufacturing and validation experience working in dry powder inhaler plant, biotech sterile fill and finish plant, and medical device and biopharmaceutical facilities. He has in-depth understanding of the requirements of cleaning and disinfection in cleanrooms, as well as best practices in bioburden control. In addition, he also has extensive experience in the cleaning validation of product contact surfaces in various biopharmaceutical and biotech companies.
Richard has also worked 3 years as a validation consultant providing validation support to various pharmaceutical customers in the area of equipment validation, cleaning validation for product contact surfaces, disinfectant validation, as well as cleaning procedures for both product and non-product contact surfaces.
Yasar Shaikh
International Business Development Manager, NATOLI Engineering, USA
With over 20 years of experience in tablet compression, Yasar has conducted trainings at many tablets manufacturing facilities globally, focusing on Cleaning, Maintenance, Inspection and Storage of compression tooling and parts.
His experiences interacting with global manufacturing facilities have helped in recognizing common angst and challenges in industry and recommend appropriate solutions.
