Semsi Ensari
Senior Director, Process Technology and Materials Development at Kite Pharma
- Role
- Senior Director at Kite Pharma
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Semsi Ensari
A results-oriented Biotech professional with expertise in both technical and people leadership, demonstrating a passion for mentoring and building high-performing teams. Their strategic and inclusive leadership approach, combined with analytical thinking, has consistently driven successful development, implementation, and maintenance of processes for clinical and commercial production of cell and gene therapies, therapeutic proteins, and antibodies. As an energetic achiever known for a collaborative spirit, leverages skills in conflict resolution and focus on performance metrics to foster a positive and productive work environment where teams can excel and achieve corporate goals.Key competencies- Strategic and Inclusive Leader | Analytical Thinker | Energetic Achiever | Situational Leadership - Mentoring | Team Building | Collaboration | Conflict Resolution | Performance Metrics | Budgeting - Alliance Management | Project Management | Technology Transfer | Methods Transfer - Statistical Design of Experiments | Quantitative Analysis | Qualitative Analysis - Process Design | Process Validation | Process Optimization | Process Automation- Capital Project Delivery | Process Equipment Design | Instrumentation and Control | IQ/OQ/PQ - FMEA | Kaizen | DMAIC | Lean Production System - Upstream Processing | Recovery Operations | Downstream Processing - Production of intracellular and extracellular proteins | Cell and Gene TherapyPublications are available upon request.
Experience
Senior Director
Feb 2021 — Present · Santa Monica, CA, US
Process Technology and Materials Development - Process DevelopmentThrough collaboration, the PTMD team develops innovative and off-the-shelf technologies and materials to enable Manufacturing to produce next generation cell therapies.Heads a team of scientists and engineers that are responsible to develop and evaluate new technology, materials, and process automation for introduction into clinical and commercial manufacturing of cell and gene therapies.
Education
UC Irvine
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
Boğaziçi University
Bachelor of Science - BS, Chemical Engineering
UC Irvine
Master of Science - MS, Engineering
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