Miguel Montalvo, B.S. Chem. Eng., MBA, President, Expert Validation Consulting, has over twenty-eight years of professional/management experience in positions of increasing responsibility in the areas of Quality, Validations and Technical Services within the traditional pharmaceutical, OTC Drugs, cosmetics, dietary supplements, biotechnology and medical device industries including extensive expertise on development and implementation of quality functional procedures (QA/QC), Quality Systems, GMP/QSR compliance audits (internal, supplier, external audits), remediation projects with companies on consent decrees, handling of non-conformances (OOS, investigations and deviations), Process/Cleaning/Computer Systems/Equipment/Facility validations, Change Control, CAPA, international GMP compliance, Calibrations, Risk Management, operational compliance assessments/Gap Analysis and start-up of manufacturing facilities.

He is a well-recognized international speaker on GMP Compliance, Validation and Quality related topics for organizations such as IVT, PDA-TRI, CfPIE and Barnett International and his articles/papers have been published in the American Pharmaceutical Review and the Journal of Validation Technology publications and have been published as an author of specific chapters in several design/quality/validation related internationally-recognized reference books. He is a member of the Journal of Validation Technology editorial board and of the PDA Annual Program Committee for their Annual meetings.