Andrea Liess Karlsson
Executive Engineering Leadership | Transforming Engineering Organizations | Speaker and Board member | Biotechnology-Fill Finish-Capital Project and Program Management
- Role
- Executive Director Engineering at 礼来
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Andrea Liess Karlsson
Experienced Leader in the Pharmaceutical and Biotech industry focused on process driven engineering excellence based on proactive and critical thinking and passion for delivering product to patients. Extensive leadership experience in engineering, project and CapEx management in a GMP environment.Passionate about how the combination of Engineering excellence and Business success leads to cost effective solutions that meets quality and customer requirements.Management experience in advancing roles with focus on leadership, team achievement and personal growth leading successful local and global (Sweden, China, Russia, Finland and US) teams both as a service provider and an owner.Global soul that thrives in a diverse working environment. Key competence areas: • Management• Strategy• Program & Project Management• PMO (Project Management Office)• CapEx Management• Sales & Business Development• Engineering Management• Aseptic production• Single-use technology• Conceptual design• Consulting
Experience
Executive Director Engineering
Oct 2025 — Present · Kenosha, WI, US
Education
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Master of Science, Chemical Engineering
1992 — 1997
Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Stanford LEAD Professional Certificate
2020 — 2021
Copenhagen Business School
SIMI Leadership Programme
2004 — 2005
Skills
- Change Control
- Aseptic Processing
- Engineering Management
- Biopharmaceuticals
- International Project Management
- Validation
- Cgmp Manufacturing
- Design Engineering
- Process Improvement
- Conceptual Design
- Manufacturing
- Verification and Validation (V&V)
- Business Strategy
- Strategy
- V&V
- Project Portfolio Management
- Project Management
- Gamp
- Gmp
- Business Development
- Biotechnology
- Process Engineering
- Pharmaceutical Industry
- Fda
- Engineering
- Management
- Management Engineering
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Technology Transfer
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