Ms.Meena Chettiar

Meena Chettiar, the founder and lead consultant of MNQ Consulting Services LLC,  currently works as a senior Associate for NAMSA in Minneapolis, MN, USA. Meena has over 25 years of experience working in Quality and Compliance for Health Canada, big medium, and small scale FDA regulated Food, Pharma and Medical device industries in the United States such as Teva Pharmaceuticals, Baxter, and Covidien. Ms. Chettiar received her M.S. in Regulatory Affairs for Medical Devices and Post graduate certification in Applied Clinical Research from St.Cloud State University, Minnesota, USA, Chemical engineering from the University of British Columbia in Canada and her B.S. and M.S in Applied Chemistry from the University of Madras, India. Meena is an Exemplar Global Certified Principal Auditor with over 20 years of auditing experience in pharmaceutical and medical device industries in the US and countries like India, Canada, Costa Rica and Puerto Rico.

Meena has worked for Health Canada and Agriculture Canada for about 10 years in various technical capacities. Meena has participated as the lead supplier/internal/GMP and clinical auditor in several compliance audits in the US and abroad for Pharmaceutical API, Excipients and medical device suppliers including testing and sterilization service suppliers. Meena has represented her companies in several FDA and several global regulatory audits. Meena is a senior member of ASQ (American Society for Quality) and is ASQ certified CQA (Certified Quality Auditor), CBA (Certified Biomedical Auditor), CQIA (Certified Quality Improvement Associate), and CMQ/OE (Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence).She has served as an instructor for these ASQ certification classes since 2006 and as an adjunct instructor for Medical Technology Quality Master’s Program at St. Cloud State University since 2013 Meena  enjoys presenting webinars on “current” topics related to quality and compliance for FDA regulated industries. Meena Chettiar is also the coauthor of QCI’s CBA Primer and was nominated as the distinguished Scientist by Minnesota Federation of Scientists, Engineers, and Technologists in 2016.