Ellab Welcomes Four New Members to the Board of Directors

Montse Montaner is former Chief Quality Officer and the first Chief Sustainability Officer of Novartis where she has held various leading positions. She has more than 30 years of industry and executive experience and has received several recognitions for her leadership in driving sustainable organizations. She has held senior leadership roles within Quality, Technical quality operations and quality controls with Novartis, Sandoz and Sanofi in Switzerland and Spain. Montse currently serves as a board member of Bavarian Nordic and Children’s Tumor Foundation as well as member of the Advisory Board and the Executive Council of 09 Solutions Inc.

• Current position: CEO and Founder of Montaner & Associates GmbH.
• Competences within: Corporate Leadership, Life Sciences, Quality, Manufacturing Risk Management, People and Culture and ESG.
• Spanish, born in 1968, female, based in Zurich, Switzerland.

Kimball Hall is most recently President & Chief Executive Officer of Innocoll Biotherapeutics, a pharmaceutical biotech company and CDMO. With over 30 years of commercial operations experience, Kimball has proven expertise in developing, licensing, and supplying biopharmaceutical products for global markets. She has held senior leadership roles in manufacturing, quality, and regulatory compliance, with companies such as Genentech, Amgen, BASF and Abzena in both US and Singapore. Kimball currently serves as board member at Vera Therapeutics.

• Current position: President & CEO, Innocoll Biotherapeutics
• Competences within: Corporate Leadership, Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Strategy, Risk Management and Transformation.
• American, born 1966, female, based in Los Angeles, CA, US.

Patricia (Patty) Martone Carrolo is a senior technology executive with 30 years of global P&L experience helping companies digitally transform their organizations and leverage AI (Artificial Intelligence), ML, Data, Cybersecurity and Cloud to become customer-centric digital enterprises. Patty’s career reflects a demonstrated track record in global general management, business development, product management, and consulting, with Google, IBM, HP, CSC and Sun Microsystems.

• Current position: Vice President, Google Cloud
• Competences within: Corporate Leadership, Life Sciences, Technology, Strategy, Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Business Development.
• American, born 1962, female, based in Boston, MA, US.

Michael J. Garvey is Founder and CEO of GeniSys Biologics. With 25 years of experience from executive, technical and operational leadership positions in biopharmaceutical companies in US, Asia and Europe, he brings a demonstrated track record starting greenfield projects, leading technical transfers and managing commercialization processes. He has held senior leadership roles in CDMO and manufacturing, with companies such as Genentech, Samsung Biologics, BeiGene and Shire working out of both US, South Korea and China.

• Current position: Founder and CEO of GeniSys Biologics
• Competences within: Corporate Leadership, Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Strategy, Transformation and Business Development.
• American, born 1973, male, based in Guangzhou, China.

For further information, please contact:
Jan Fledelius,
Chief People Officer and Head of Global People, Organization & Communications

Phone: +45 42460200
Email: jfl@ellab.com

Headquartered in Hillerød, Denmark, Ellab provides mission-critical Validation- and Monitoring Solutions and Services used for measuring and documenting critical parameters such temperature, pressure and CO2 in mainly biotech and pharma processes. The Company serves all of the top 20 biotech companies and all of the top 40 pharma companies globally helping them ensure consumer safety and regulatory compliance, while reducing time to market and the risk of product loss.