The CPHI Sustainability Collective: A New Initiative to Support a Sustainable Pharma Value Chain

James is an experienced events producer, who has developed and led multiple events across the life science industry for leading events organisations, while keeping the highest standards in terms of quality and delivery. Now at Informa Markets as Senior Content Producer, James oversees the content for CPHI North America and CPHI webinar series, helping in creating cutting edge sessions and providing guidance in creating interactive and educational talks.

Kami Krista is the CEO and co-founder of Elio. Elio is building a software platform to help scientists and process engineers seamlessly integrate sustainability into their process design decision, starting with pharma. The bigger vision is to help coordinate ecodesign across the value chain. To do so, Elio initiated the Pharma Eco-design Consortium together with Cytiva, ten23 health and others. Kami is a bioengineer by training, who has consulted large pharma companies on multi-billion dollar M&A deals and worked on drug development research at MIT while studying at Harvard. Kami has spent the last decade in the sustainability space in various capacities, including as a UN youth delegate and advisor to corporates such as IKEA. He has presented at the likes of World Economic Forum, COP26 and DECHEMA.

•Member in PSCI since 2016, with leadership role in Governance, Management systems, Supplier Partnership.

•Active participation in several committees since 2016, contributing to the development of new initiatives in PSCI – maturity template, partnerships. Deirdre focuses on fostering a collaborative and inclusive environment where members & suppliers can work together to promote good practices across the

•Senior Director of Global EHS Supplier Operations & Business Development at Viatris

•24 years experience in the pharmaceutical sector – Warner Lambert, Pfizer, Upjohn -Pfizer, Viatris

•Leadership roles in EHS API site operations, Supply Chain operations, Global Technical Product Transfers, Global Supplier Operations.

Nicola has been with BioPhorum since 2019. Initially focusing on raw materials, she has worked cross-phorum to connect the technical, supply chain, and regulatory experts to develop a strategy to future proof raw materials for the biologics industry. She now leads the newly launched BioPhorum Sustainability and is excited by the challenge to connect people from all disciplines across the industry around this critical topic. A change program leader with over 25 years of management and consulting experience, Nicola has supported private and public sector organizations to improve results by aligning motivation, behaviors, and processes. Her passion is creating the link between executive strategy, technical capability, and front-line delivery, and developing comprehensive change programs underpinned by behavioral science techniques. Her extensive project and change experience has been in banking, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, and public services. As a result, Nicola has a wealth of insight in overcoming common change barriers, as well as deep expertize in industry specific challenges.