Valerie Brown

VALERIE BROWN is senior vice president of quality assurance in pharmaceutical development and manufacturing at Gilead Sciences, Inc. She leads a global team, including internal sites and PDM affiliates, responsible for quality and compliance in producing active pharmaceutical ingredients, drug product intermediates, oral solid dosage forms, parenterals, and medical devices for world-wide development and commercial markets. She has over twenty-five years of experience in the pharmaceutical  and biopharmaceutical industry with expertise in quality control, quality assurance, and worldwide health authority regulations. In 2010, Brown joined Gilead to lead the Commercial API Quality group responsible for external supply of active pharmaceutical ingredients formulated in drug products and, in 2013, she assumed the additional responsibility for commercial quality and compliance oversight of finished dosage forms manufactured for and on behalf of Gilead. Brown holds a BS degree in biology and chemistry from Averett College and a master’s in healthcare management from Saint Joseph’s University. @GileadSciences