With over 24 years of consulting experience, Dr. Franco led PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Pharmaceutical R&D practice where he specialized in improving pharmaceutical drug development, technology transfer, clinical trial operations and manufacturing. The breadth of his career includes having worked with the senior management of several large pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, Non-government Organizations (NGOs) and multinational organizations to implement complex change management initiatives to improve growth, reduce costs and remediate quality and regulatory issues. In addition to Dr. Franco’s writing which includes eight management consulting articles and thirteen technical publications, he has three patents to his name and has served on several international technical review and regulatory standards committees. Dr. Franco holds a Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Science in Biochemistry from the University of Rochester.