James Choi is Executive Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer and Head of Sales Support, Project Management, and Global Public Affairs for Samsung Biologics. Mr. Choi has more than 35 years of senior leadership experience in the healthcare and informatics industries in various roles including customer service, operations, information technology, and security. Prior to joining Samsung Biologics in 2014, Mr. Choi was CIO at Beckman Coulter's Clinical Diagnostics and Life Sciences businesses, CIO and CTO at Altegrity, and Senior Director of Information Systems, Customer Services eBusiness Technology, and Site Planning at Philips Healthcare. Mr. Choi holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of California Irvine and an MBA from the University of Southern California.
Creating adequate capacity for any therapeutic can be challenging, and the specialized technologies for manufacturing complex biologics require flexibility and agility in production processes. Here's how contract development and manufacturing organizations (CDMOs) ensure that biopharmaceutical companies have a partner with the speed, flexibility, and expertise necessary for successful drug development and manufacturing.