Alain KHAIAT, Ph.D.
VICE PRESIDENT RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
QUALITY & TECHNICAL ASSURANCE
1996 To February 2006
Key responsibilities
Staff of 350. Countries ranging from India to New Zealand.
- Product development:
• skin care, hair care, toiletries, wound care, oral care, feminine sanitary protection, feminine hygiene
- Regulatory Affairs:
• compliance to regulations, registration of products & ingredients, claim substantiation, etc.
- Safety Evaluation:
• Raw materials, pre market evaluation and post market surveillance
- Quality & Technical Assurance:
• establishment of procedures & GMP systems, of transfer of technologies from R&D to manufacturing, scale up, validation
- Packaging Development:
• New designs, new molds, new suppliers as well as maintenance of existing ones
- Consumer Fundamentals:
• establishment of systems to understand key consumer needs
- Scientific Direction:
responsible on a worldwide basis of several contacts with Universities, Global suppliers or Technology start up companies; on a regional basis of the relationships with professionals (dermatologists, pediatricians, nurses, OB-GYN, etc)
- Others :
• Member of the Johnson & Johnson Asia Pacific Leadership Team (regional executive board)
• Member of the World Wide Johnson & Johnson R&D Executive Team
• President of the Cosmetic Toiletries and Fragrance Association of Singapore (CTFAS) since April 2001
• Advisor to the Health Science Authorities of Singapore on product safety
• EU Senior Expert to the ASEAN countries on Product Safety, Product Efficacy and Post Marketing Surveillance since April 2004
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
Key responsibilities
Product development
• Skin care, hair care, toiletries, make up, fragrances
• Regulatory Affairs
• Safety evaluation
• Claim substantiation
• Scientific Direction
• Plant biology and extraction processes
Others
• Member of the Executive Committee of the company
• Member of the Executive Technical Committee of the French Federation of
Cosmetic Industries (FIP)
President of the Environment Commission of the FIP
VICE PRESIDENT TECHNICAL SERVICES EUROPE,
MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA then INTERNATIONAL VICE PRESIDENT R&D
1980-1987
Key responsibilities:
• Coordination of all technical activities outside the USA
• Direct supervision of all factories (36 factories in 32 countries) Quality departments
• Product Development in Brazil (hair care, toiletries, make up), Spain (professional products: hair colors, perms,…) and France (skin care)
• Quality: implementation of cGMP
• Support to manufacturing, including manufacturing agents
• Regulatory Affairs
• Packaging Development
• Safety evaluation
• Claim substantiation
LABORATORY MANAGER
1973-1980
Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory, Lens, France
Key responsibilities
• Management of one of the largest clinical diagnostics laboratory (staff of 35) in northern France
• Routine blood and other biological fluids testing in hematology, biochemistry, bacteriology, immunology, hormonology
• Development of new techniques in hormonology and immunology
EDUCATION
BS in Mathematics, Paris, France 1964
BS in Chemistry, Nancy, France, 1966
BS in Chemical Engineering, Nancy, France, 1967
Ph. D. in Biophysics, Paris, France, 1972
• Research done at the Weizman Institute of Sciences, Rehovot, Israel and at the Hospital Henri Mondor, Creteil, France
• Teaching Assistant in Biophysics at the Faculty of Medicine, Creteil, France and in Nuclear Medicine at Hospital H. Mondor, Creteil, France
• Consultant in Space Medicine and Space Biology with the European Space Agency, Paris (1970-1972)
• Post Doctorate in Hormonology, Paris Medical School, 1973
• Business Management Training, Lille, France, 1980
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