Mr.Ronald Snee

Ron Snee is Founder and President of Snee Associates, a firm dedicated to the successful implementation of process and organizational improvement initiatives. He provides guidance to senior executives in their pursuit of improved business performance using Quality by Design, Lean Six Sigma and other approaches that produce bottom-line results. He has played a leadership role in 32 major improvement initiatives for firms such as Novartis, Schering Plough, Human Genome Sciences, Boehringer-Ingelheim and Kraft Foods. Prior to his consulting career, he spent 24 years at the DuPont Company in a variety of assignments including pharmaceutical clinical trial design and analysis. He has developed and applied process design, improvement, monitoring and control methodologies for more than 40 years. 

His recent application and research on QbD have produced eight articles on the use of QbD in Pharma and Biotech. He has also co-authored 3 books on the methods and tools of QbD and speaks regularly at conferences and meetings on the subject. He teaches QbD and related methodologies as an Adjunct Professor at Temple University School of Pharmacy. Ron received his BA from Washington and Jefferson College and MS and PhD degrees from Rutgers University. 

He is an Honorary Member of the American Society for Quality and has been awarded ASQ’s Shewhart, Grant and Distinguished Service Medals, and the American Statistical Association’s Deming Lecture, Dixon Consulting Excellence and Hahn Quality and Productivity Achievement Awards as well as numerous other awards and honors. He is an academician in the International Academy for Quality and Fellow of ASQ, ASA and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a frequent speaker and has published 7 books and more than 300 papers in the fields of performance improvement, quality, management, and statistics. He is a past recipient of the Institute of Validation Technology Speaker of the Year Award.