QBL Faculty
Who We Are
A carefully curated faculty drawn from industry, academia, and regulatory leadership — bringing perspectives found nowhere else in a single program.
Breadth of perspective, in one place
The Certificate in Quality Business Leadership faculty gives quality leaders access to the perspectives they rarely encounter — but deeply need — to lead as true business partners.
Every faculty member brings firsthand experience in how quality operates at the highest levels, from executive decision-making and financial strategy to regulatory oversight, systems thinking, and organizational change.
Faculty Expertise Spans:
- Executive quality leadership and enterprise decision-making
- Global operations and manufacturing environments
- Regulatory and health authority leadership
- Financial framing, risk, and value creation
- Organizational change and systems thinking
Faculty Leadership
Anders Vinther
With over 25 years of global pharmaceutical leadership experience, Anders built QBA to transform how quality leaders operate — moving beyond compliance to become strategic business partners who drive enterprise value.
That experience became the foundation for Quality Business Administration. Anders created QBA to give quality leaders what he rarely saw offered: a structured, rigorous, and practical path to leading at the level their organizations need.
Through QBA, Anders built the world's only formally accredited Quality Business Leadership program, in partnership with the Graduate Business School at Technological University of Dublin, and developed a growing global community of quality leaders changing how quality operates within their organizations.
What Makes This Faculty Different
Not here to teach theory.
This faculty is intentionally selected to challenge long-held assumptions, expand perspectives, and connect quality, business, and leadership in practice — not in abstract models.
Challenge long-held assumptions about the quality leadership role.
Expand how leaders see their own role, influence, and potential.
Ground every session in real-world experience, not abstract models.
Connect quality, business, and leadership in ways that hold up in practice.
Facilitate the start of each leader's own Quality Business Leadership journey.
Meet the QBL Faculty
The voices shaping the QBL experience
Dr Janet Woodcock
Former Acting FDA Commissioner, Program Lecturer
Dr Janet Woodcock recently retired from the FDA after more than 30 years of service. Throughout her career she held several high-level positions including Director (Head) of CDER, acting Commissioner, and Therapeutic Lead of Operation WARP Speed. Immediately prior to her retirement she led the reorganization of FDA impacting 8,000 employees. Dr Woodcock is by many seen as the leading quality thinker of this century. She launched GMP for the 21st Century which led to FDA joining PIC/S and the development of the ICH Q8-11 Quality guidelines series. In addition to being a lecturer on the Certificate in Quality Business Leadership (QBL) Program Dr Woodcock is also a strategic advisor and advocate for QBL.
Andrei Spinei
GMDP IWG, Program Lecturer
Craig Elliott
Former CFO, Parenteral Drug Association, Program Lecturer
Dr Colin Hughes
Head of Graduate Business School, TU Dublin, Guest Lecturer
Holger Rathgeber
CEO at TeamRathgeber, Program Lecturer
John Atkinson
Independent adviser on systems transformational change and leadership, Lecturer
John Kelly
Retired CQO Pfizer, Lecturer
Lyne Le Palaire
M&S Learning Institute Lead, Coach & Softskills Trainer, Lecturer
Marty Lipa
Industry and Regulatory Advisor, PRST, TUDublin, Lecturer
Merle Goddard
CQO Apotex, Program Lecturer
Professor Anne Greene
Head of Part-time Education, School of Chemical and BioPharmaceutical Science, TU Dublin, Guest Lecturer
Professor Kevin O’Donnell
Professor, HPRA; Rapporteur ICH Q9(R1); expert in QRM, Program Lecturer
Tim Moore
EVP, CTO Allogene; Senior Operations Executive, Lecturer
Ready to experience it firsthand?
Whether you're an individual leader, a team, or a senior executive — there's a path into Quality Business Leadership that fits where you are right now.