Gordon Keith

Director of Operations, Thermo Fisher Scientific

Gord is a pharmaceutical professional with 25yrs experience in the industry. He graduated from the University of Guelph with an Honours Bachelor of Science degree with specialization in Analytical and Synthetic Organic Chemistry. Gord’s experience spans a wide range of disciplines within the pharma industry, including Quality Control, Operational Excellence, Quality Assurance, Technical Writing, Packaging Engineering, Packaging Operations and Lab Development Operations. He is a certified Lean 6 sigma Blackbelt and has put his knowledge and skills to the use in driving improvements within all the teams he has worked with.

Currently as Director of Operations, Gord leads the teams responsible for manufacturing and packaging of pharmaceutical products. His teams encompass the dispensing, granulation (wet and dry granulation), compression, coating and inspection of bulk products. His teams are also responsible for the primary packaging of Rx products into bottles or blisters and the market specific secondary packaging (labeling, cartoning, serialization) for Thermofisher’s clients.

Gord is also heavily involved in the digitization efforts at the site, working to implement the site’s Pharma 4.0 strategy and facilitate the site’s evolution into the digitization and automation arenas.