Gelest, a US manufacturer of silanes, silicones and metal organics, has formed a new Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance Group.
Kevin King, Executive Vice President Operations, who oversees Regulatory Affairs, and Joel Zazyczny, Executive Vice President Silanes, Silicones & Metal-Organics, who oversees Quality Assurance will jointly lead the Group. It will be responsible for ensuring that the firm’s chemical manufacturing facilities and processes fulfil all applicable regulatory and quality assurance requirements.
Based at Gelest headquarters in Morrisville, Pennsylvania, the Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance Group includes Shelly Kearney, who joins Gelest as Regulatory Affairs Manager; Maya Kappil, Gelest’s Quality Systems Manager; and Stephine Tarpeh, who assumes a new position as Environmental & Regulatory Affairs Associate.
Kearney will manage all chemical-specific aspects of regulatory compliance at Gelest. She brings 20 years of experience in the chemical industry to her new position, specialising in Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) issues in manufacturing and R&D environments. She began her professional career as an Environmental Engineer at Catalent Pharma Solutions. She joins Gelest following a successful tenure as EH&S Site Leader at GE Betz.
Kappil will manage and maintain ISO-certified quality systems. She is also responsible for the maintenance of Gelest’s Corrective & Preventive Action and Customer Complaint databases and for coordinating internal audit programme and management review meetings.
A seven-year veteran of Gelest, Kappil previously worked as Quality Coordinator for Alcoa-KAMA (now Multi-Plastics) in New Jersey and Solvay Paperboard (now Rock-Tenn) in Syracuse, New York.
Tarpeh will contribute to the planning and preparation of environmental and regulatory submissions. Also a seven-year veteran of Gelest, Tarpeh started with the company as a Process Chemist, and subsequently broadened her experience and responsibilities as a Synthetic Chemist and as a Customer Service Representative before assuming her new position with the Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance Group.
