Qserve Team, The Netherlands (Headquarters)

Qserve Group Global Team


Willibrord Driessen (Founder)
President and CEO, Qserve Group 
Willibrord has held a number of key management positions in the Medical Device Industry. He brings more than 25 years of senior management skills to the Qserve Group in the areas of Quality Management Systems and Regulatory Affairs. Willibrord is a qualified Lead Auditor holding Notified Body certification and CMDCAS certification Willibrord’s particular fields of expertise are in the implementation and management of quality management systems ISO 13485:2003, CMDCAS, ISO 9001 and auditing. Willibrord has extensive knowledge of international regulatory affairs, and has specialist knowledge of CE Marking. He is also an experienced coach of senior managers and is a qualified trainer in all aspects of quality management systems, auditing, and regulatory affairs.

Luc Sterkman, MD (partner Qserve group)
Vice President Clinical - and Regulatory Affairs 
Luc was trained as a Medical Doctor. For more then 20 years Luc has been building experience in various areas of the Life Sciences, including Innovative Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology, Tissue Engineering and Medical Devices. Luc has been part of the management teams building a clinical research organization and an innovative biotech company in the Netherlands. Development programs included medical devices, medicinal products and tissue engineering. He is specialized in Clinical affairs, Strategic planning and the development of High Risk (border line) products with the related International Compliance Regulations.
 
Susan Klymowsky, Drs.
Vice President International Regulatory Affairs
Susan is Principal Consultant. Prior to holding this position, Susan was QA/RA Manager for a medical device company manufacturing Class III medical implants. She has held  strong responsiblities for project management. Susan is very experienced in conducting literature studies, and technical writing and editing of medical-scientific-engineering documents. Susan is an advanced certified biological safety expert for medical devices. Susan has a broad scientific background holding Master’s degrees in both Biology and Geology, and Information Science and Technology. Susan is a native English speaker and is proficient in Dutch, German and French.
 
Peter Reijntjes, Drs.
Principal Consultant Quality and Regulatory Affairs
Peter is a senior consultant medical devices and trainer with extensive knowledge of and experience with Quality Management Systems and Technical Documentation implementation and compliance. Peter is very experienced  project manager. He has worked 16 years for a renowned Certification and Notified Body, also as lead-auditor ISO 9001 and ISO 13485.

Mason Diamond, DDS
VP Regulatory & Quality Affairs; Qserve America (NY Tri State Area)
Mason brings to Qserve over 25 years of medical industry experience, including 20 years spent as a Biotech Executive with extensive industry, academic, and clinical practice experience encompassing Medical Device, Pharmaceutical, and Biologics development. Mason developed and managed regulatory programs across many therapeutic areas, including, plastic and reconstructive surgery, dermatology, wound care, diagnostics, orthopedics, cardiovascular, etc. Mason is an expert in the area of combination product development (i.e., combined drug-delivery device products, drug-coated implantable medical devices, drug delivery systems, etc.). Mason’s wide range of expertise includes: Strategic regulatory planning, Global quality system development, CE Marking, 510K, PMA, IND , Pre IDE, New technology assessment and strategic planning.

Patsy Trisler, JD, RAC
VP Regulatory & Clinical Affairs; Qserve America (Washington Area)
Patsy’s experience spans 26 years in regulatory affairs, starting with employment at the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health in 1985. She began consulting in 1991 and has owned her own consultancy firm since Oct 2003. Prior consulting and senior management positions were with biologics and medical device consulting firms and international clinical research organizations.
Patsy advises medical device and combination products’ companies on a wide array of regulatory and clinical trial compliance issues. She consults on preclinical and clinical testing requirements; provides strategic guidance on regulatory pathway and clinical trial design; prepares regulatory submissions, including pre-IDEs, IDEs, RFDs, 510(k)s and PMAs; serves as clients’ liaison with the FDA; and performs due diligence assessments for financial firms. Her regulatory experience encompasses product categories in numerous therapeutic areas, including tissue/cell-based treatments; blood products/blood processing; brain surgery; dental/craniofacial/ oromandibular; drug/biologics delivery; general hospital; organ transplant; orthopedics; pain therapy; plastic surgery/ reconstructive/cosmetic; soft-tissue reinforcement; tissue sealants; urological; weight-loss; and wound care.


Fred Pet, BSc.
Operational Project Director & Principal Consultant
Fred is a Medical Device and a biotech executive with over 20 years of extensive industry experience. He developed, changed and managed regulatory and quality programs at different facilities both in Europe and Africa. Fred is an expert in the area of Medical Devices ranging from Class I through Class III as well as drug device combination products from development, validation, manufacturing, testing, labeling to distribution. Implemented, changed and maintained QMS systems at several manufacturing sites across the globe (France, Mauritius, Netherlands, United Kingdom) resulting into ISO 9001 and/or ISO 13485 certification and/or certification renewal. He is experienced in the interaction with regulatory bodies on product and process development issues and CE certificate transfer. Fred is a native Dutch speaker and fluent in English both verbal and in writing.

Lotte Plantinga, PhD
Senior Consultant
Lotte has her PhD-degree in Medical Biology (Rudolf Magnus Institute) and is specialised in Regulatory Affairs, Project Management, Product Development and Quality Assurance for the (bio)pharmaceutical industry. She has a broad experience, as project manager in the field of pharmaceutics, in-vitro diagnostics, medical devices, coaching and training. Her expertise and good social skills result in a professional approach to organisations and their employees. Besides working as staff member, she owns her own company ‘Plantinga Coaching and Training’ and coaches and trains employees in communication skills.

Jan Winters, Ir.
Consultant
Before starting consultancy at Qserve, Jan worked for several companies in the optical, electronic, medical device and pharmaceutical industry with strong responsiblity for project management, Quality Systems (ISO 9001, ISO 13485, QSR and CMDCAS), Auditing (supplier and Internal' and  Procurement. Jan has worked with J&J (Cordis), Philips Medical, and Medtronic.

Gert de Vries, BEng biomedical polytechnics
Consultant
Gert is consultant in medical devices regulations and standardization. He has worked senior biomedical equipment engineer in hospitals. Gert has long working experience in the health care industry as independent advisor for Quality Management Systems, regulation and standardisation. His fields of interest within Qserve are all aspects of medical devices with emphasis on Quality Management System compliance and regulatory affairs requirements. He specialises in electrical medical devices (Electrical Safety 60601 3rd edition) and medical software with particular interest in preparation of QMS, medical device risk management and technical documentation required for regulatory clearance. Holding a bachelor degree in polytechnics subject biomedical engineering. He also works in one of the university hospitals of Amsterdam as quality control engineer for physics and medical technology.

Paul van Geffen, PhD
Consultant
Paul is consultant in Medical Devices Regulations and Medical Technology. He holds a PhD in Biomechanical Engineering (University of Twente), a MSc in Human Movement Science (VU University of Amsterdam) and a BSc in Human Kinetic Technology (The Hague University). His fields of expertise include (bio)medical technology, human movement science, biomechanics, ergonomics, rehabilitation medicine and clinical evaluation studies. Furthermore, he worked on various projects in close collaboration with physicians, clinicians, engineers, physical therapists and companies in engineering and medical product development.

Albert Koster, MSc, BSc
Consultant
Albert finished his Bachelors degree in mechanical engineering as a result of a thesis-internship at Nucletron B.V. in 1999. He started his working career as a designer in medical instruments for radiotherapy. As senior designer, Albert managed several product releases of medical devices. Also he studied to earn his Master of Science degree in Engineering and Product Design. After 6 years as a R&D designer, he started as a CAD/ CAM consultant teaching mechanical design applications. He re-entered the medical device industry by working as a product manager for Isodose Control. At Isodose Control he worked to realize an instrument portfolio for radiotherapy from scratch where he was strongly involved Technical Dossier compilations and International Regulatory Affairs within ISO 13485 Quality Management System. He released several instrument sets (re-useable & disposable) for the Medical Device market being the R&D product manager.

Leon Doorn, MSc
Consultant
Leon is experienced in working with medical devices as a nurse and looks at them from a patient perspective. After finishing his bachelor's degree as a nurse, conducting research in hospitals, he decided to get his master's degree in Health Sciences at the "Vrije Universiteit" in Amsterdam. During his masters Leon developed research skills conducting research as freelance consultant and during his intership at the Amsterdam municipal healthcare centre. During this intership he set up his own epidemiologic research within the Amsterdam "JUMP-IN" study. Prior to working for Qserve, Leon worked as a communications consultant for major pharmaceutical companies. 

Jiske Simons
Consultant/Sr. Clinical Research Associate

Before starting at Qserve, Jiske has worked for more than seven years as (Sr.) Clinical Research Associate at the Clinical Research department of several pharmaceutical companies in the Netherlands. She is very experienced in managing registration studies and post-marketing trials.
Jiske has developed strong collaborative multifunctional communication skills. Besides working at Qserve, she owns her own company ‘JS|Solutions’ for interim and project management projects within the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry

Tanja Hennis, BSc
Finance & Human Resources
Tanja is responsible for Human Resources and Finance within the Qserve Group since 1998. She earned her degree as dietician. Tanja is working in the field of Health Care for more than 25 years. 

Rhonda McFarland
Consultant Quality and Regulatory Affairs; Qserve America (New England Area) 

Debra Ferland
Office Manager / Quality Systems Affairs; Qserve America (New England Area)

Stephanie (Xing) Huang, Mcom
In Country Representative /  Regulatory Affairs; Qserve China
Stephanie conducts research and works on consulting projects in Asian area. She is also responsible for developing business opportunities, strengthening client relationships and promoting company’s image. Graduated with MCom from University of Sydney, she has spent time studying and working in China, UK, and Australia. Prior to joining Qserve, she has been part of the management team of a British clinical research organization (CRO) based in China. She has managed various projects successfully, promoted pharmaceutical products and medical products, and targeted the suitable partners for both western and eastern clients. By leveraging company’s strengths, she helped company extend services and technology capabilities in support of clinical research across all phases of development. She is familiar with local pharmaceutical and medical device enterprises, government regulations, and industry environment. With an insight of operation, procedure, and culture in both Asian and western companies, she brings organization greater effectiveness and benefits.
Stephanie is a native Chinese speaker and exellent English speaker.


Johan Bender, MSc, PharmD
Senior Advisor
Johan has 15 years experience in Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Industry. He has been for many years partner and Managing Director of Bactimm BV and Farmalyse BV, a contract Microbial & Chemical Research laboratory. His expertise spans QP activities to high risk combination Medical Devices He is an expert on Drug Master Files, Chemical/Pharmaceutical & Manufacturing parts of Drug applications, ISO 10993 (part 1, 7, 9, 13, 14, 17 and 18), shelf life & sterility studies. In addition to working with QServe Group BV, Dr. Bender manages his own Development & IP company focusing on Biomaterial implants, drug development, drug delivery, consulting firm serving Drug, Medical Device and IVD clients worldwide.

Max Rogmans MD
Advisor
Max is a consultant specializing in Technology Transfer and Business Development. Originally trained as Physician, he worked two years at the Surgical Department of the Academic Hospital, Free University, Amsterdam. 
 

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