Tom Beil makes a higher profile return to SAFC

Tom Beil is making a welcome return to US custom manufacturing company SAFC - this time as vice president of quality and regulatory affairs.

Beil, who previously worked as quality systems manager for SAFC - a division of the Sigma-Aldrich group - for 13 years between 1986 and 1999, will oversee quality assurance and regulatory programmes at the Missouri-based company.

He will report to SAFC president Dr Frank Wicks and to Rich Keffer, general counsel and secretary for Sigma-Aldrich Corporation.

Previously, Beil worked for Centocor/GBSC, where he was senior director of site quality with responsibilities for quality assurance, quality control and quality systems.

"We are pleased to welcome Tom back to SAFC," said Wicks. "He brings a wealth of knowledge and experience that is expected to help us continue to build upon our industry-leading regulatory compliance position. His addition to our senior management team will be focused on helping us support risk mitigation, quality assurance and regulatory initiatives across our product and service lines and will enhance the regulatory partnerships we intend to build with our customers to guide them through the challenges they face in procuring materials with the proper compliance profiles."

Sigma-Aldrich focuses on high-purity inorganics for high technology applications, cell culture products and services for biopharmaceutical manufacturing, biochemical production and the manufacturing of complex, multi-step organic synthesis of APIs and key intermediates.