About

Jeff Henderson, Key Account Manager at Vetter, has served in a variety of positions as an engineer, consultant and business development professional over the span of his 25-year career. He began his engineering and consulting role with Barry-Wehmiller Design Group in St. Louis (MO, US), designing, installing and validating filling and packaging lines for the food, beverage and pharma industries before earning his MBA at Pepperdine University in Malibu (CA, US).

After that, Mr Henderson worked at Amgen, where he was initially responsible for managing contract manufacturing operations at various packaging and sterile fill-finish sites in the US. He later moved into a more strategic role in developing manufacturing strategies for clinical and commercial products in Amgen’s pipeline.

In 2007, he moved to Seattle (WA, US) to focus on downstream efforts in automated warehousing and material handling before returning to a biotech engineering role at MedImmune’s pilot plant in Gaithersburg (MD, US). Following his position at MedImmune, he joined Vetter as a Key Account Manager in 2010 and has been growing a solid business footprint over the past 12 years.

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INTERVIEW

INTERVIEW with Jeff Henderson

Jeff Henderson discusses the practice of outsourcing within the pharmaceutical industry. He considers factors that pharma and biopharma companies should consider when determining whether or not to outsource to a CDMO and many of the advantages that outsourcing can offer, especially to small- and medium-sized companies.