Herbert Vander Elst

Herbert Vander Elst
Senior Director and Head of Tech, Manufacturing & Supply Chain
GSK Vaccines

Herbert (Bert) currently leads Global IT for GSK Vaccines Manufacturing & Supply and is based in Belgium.  His team of product owners, designers and engineers outline the IT strategy, engage with the client teams, help reengineering processes, do solution delivery leveraging various competency centers, and monitor support performance.  Prior to this, Bert was leading IT for GSK Vaccines R&D, driving forward solutions around human biological sample management and clinical trial supply, e-Labs, Veeva Vault regulatory and clinical replatforming, infrastructure and data pipelines for next gen sequencing across R&D, QbD digital twin, and PLM to address the IDMP data opportunity.  Before joining GSK in 2008, Bert was with IBM-PwC focusing on pharma clients, IT strategy, process engineering, and system implementations.

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