Welcome to QBA
QBA exists to educate and develop Quality professionals on a journey to becoming Quality Business Leaders. We seek to develop the Quality function as a core business competency that leads to improvements every pharmaceutical company desires: increased profitability, enhanced reputation, and reliable, quality product supply to patients.
Our ambition is to champion a new way of thinking about the Quality role. One that is more proactive. One that creates and leads change. This will benefit companies financially, increase employee engagement, and serve patients through supply of quality medicines without disruptions.
QBA applies a practical approach to education and a mindset that includes:
- unlearning old habits that are holding back Quality leaders in a reactive, problem-solving role
- learning new skills that characterizes great Quality business leaders
Quality Business Administration’s (QBA) mission is to develop the Quality Function as a fully integrated business competency
that protects patient health and wellbeing by ensuring reliable quality product supply, helps meet company ESG* ambitions, and enhances profitability and company reputation
by advanced education and development of leaders in Quality and other key functions to become Quality Business Leaders
Quality Business Leadership Manifesto
Guiding the Next Generation of Quality Business Leaders
We believe quality is at the core of modern healthcare, serving to protect patients, strengthen organizations, and build the trust needed to sustain the industry. However, Quality leadership is at a turning point. Existing models won’t adequately meet the healthcare demands when technology is changing at a staggering pace and resources are more constrained. The opportunity now is for Quality Business Leaders to lead a transformation that demonstrates quality as financial value ensuring consistent product quality, strengthened supply, and sustainable long-term organizational success.
A New Standard for Quality Leadership
Simply meeting cGMP regulations is not sufficient for businesses to succeed and thrive. Real progress can begin when Quality Business Leaders are embraced as strategic partners who shape business outcomes, anchor decisions in quality, trust, and patient safety, and communicate quality with financial fluency.
Our work focuses on creating a practical mindset shift that moves Quality Business Leaders from support function to strategic business partner and a trusted driver of value. We go beyond traditional perceptions of quality through visible actions and measurable business outcomes.
The Quality Business Leader
This moment demands a new kind of leader: the Quality Business Leader. They champion:
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Patient-centered decision-making, under uncertainty prioritizing safety, efficacy, and high-quality products while balancing science and compliance through rigorous risk-benefit thinking
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Financial value through quality, demonstrating that strong quality leadership drives waste reduction, sustainable performance, and long-term success
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Ownership and partnership, making quality a shared responsibility and mindset across the organization at all levels
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Regulatory collaboration, contributing to a science-based, forward-looking global framework that supports continuous improvement, innovation, and global harmonization
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Simplified, integrated quality system, integrated quality system, improving agility, effectiveness, supply reliability, robustness and resilience.
These are not abstract ideals. They are practical mindsets and behaviors that reshape organizations, elevate careers, and enable lasting business results.
The Future We Are Building
We envision a future where quality is fully owned by every employee and integrated into the business. Where risk is understood earlier. Where decisions move faster and with greater confidence. Where trust is strengthened across regulators, companies, and patients alike.
This future is already taking shape as quality leaders sharpen financial fluency, simplify systems, and expand their influence. Momentum is building.
A Call to Lead
If you have ever felt that your expertise was undervalued, believed Quality could contribute more than your role allowed, or wanted to lead but lacked the language to influence at the highest levels, this manifesto is written for you.
This is the moment for Quality Business Leaders to step forward with clarity, partnership, and confidence. This is our movement. And this is your invitation. Join the many Quality Business Leaders who are redefining what quality can achieve.
Anders Vinther
Anders Vinther, founder of Quality Business Administration, is a well-known and respected quality leader in the pharmaceutical industry. He has founded, grown, and merged companies, led company culture, financial and compliance turnarounds, and helped many people developing their career.
Anders founded QBA to educate and develop experts and leaders in the pharmaceutical industry to become better Quality Business Leaders and for the Quality Function to become a core business competency. He is currently collaborating with the University of Dublin to realize his dream of a Quality Business Leader Certification Program.
Anders is a Danish and USA citizen and has worked with and in many cultures. He has held many global senior leadership roles in large and small companies including Sanofi, Genentech, Roche, Novo Nordisk, AGC Biologics, Intarcia, Kronos Bio. For more than 25 years Anders has also been active in developing the Quality function as a more active stakeholder in public health activities.
Anders is a multi-passionate entrepreneur. He is founder of CMC Biologics (now AGC Biologics), Quality Business Administration, and Flying Suitcase Wines, an award-winning winery where he is the winemaker.
Why QBA
The role of Quality professionals is traditionally seen as ensuring cGMP compliance. Often a significant part of the job is spent fixing issues. The reactive role relegates Quality to being a support function rather than a proactive, fully integrated and leading operations function.
A fully integrated Quality function led by Quality Business Leaders can improve company quality and financial performance. This will also benefit patients, employees and enhance career opportunities for Quality professionals.
Making the transition to Quality Business Leadership is neither simple nor intuitive as it is fundamentally different from how the traditional role is practiced. It requires unlearning some old habits and learning 6 new specific traits.
Developing these 6 traits is what QBA uniquely offers through advanced education, mentoring, and coaching of Quality professionals. The education includes a 10 weeks certification program accredited by TU Dublin, Ireland.
Your organization’s success is at stake
Pharma companies can no longer continue with business as usual where quality leadership is concerned. It’s time to unlearn traditional ways of performing the Quality role and learn a new approach.
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