Aptuit Appoints Stuart Needleman Senior Director, Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient Development.GREENWICH, Conn. -- --Needleman to Lead Efforts to Increase Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient Capabilities Through Strategic Acquisitions and Additional Internal Investments -- Aptuit, Inc. announced today that Stuart E. Needleman has been appointed Senior Director, Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient Development. Mr. Needleman brings to Aptuit over 20 years experience in the global development, scale-up, and manufacture of regulated active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) for new and established compounds. He has been involved in projects for both small and large pharmaceutical companies, successfully matching API supply from discovery to post-launch commercial quantities. Mr. Needleman will lead Aptuit's charge to bring capabilities in API development to its customers. "Stu is one of the industry's leading figures in the area of API development. His technical attributes, energy, and passion are well known to the Aptuit team. Coupled with our existing established business lines, I feel confident we are on the verge On the Verge (or The Geography of Yearning) is a play written by Eric Overmyer. It makes extensive use of esoteric language and pop culture references from the late nineteenth century to 1955. of creating a truly formidable platform from which to engineer a better drug development process for the industry," said CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Michael A. Griffith. Initially, Mr. Needleman will focus his attention on identifying acquisition opportunities at the API kilo Thousand (10 to the 3rd power). Abbreviated "K." For technical specifications, it refers to the precise value 1,024 since computer specifications are based on binary numbers. For example, 64K means 65,536 bytes when referring to memory or storage (64x1024), but a 64K salary means $64,000. laboratory and pilot plant scale, teaming up with the sales force to ensure that Aptuit customers have access to Aptuit's API capabilities within their projects, and working with the facilities' management teams to design and build industry-leading, internal API development capability. "When I look at the Aptuit business model, I feel uniquely placed to create this next vital piece of the service offering for our current and future customers. The timing is absolutely right for us to both acquire additional high quality API assets in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe, and Asia and build internal capability at our locations in Kansas City Kansas City, two adjacent cities of the same name, one (1990 pop. 149,767), seat of Wyandotte co., NE Kansas (inc. 1859), the other (1990 pop. 435,146), Clay, Jackson, and Platte counties, NW Mo. (inc. 1850). , MO and Edinburgh, Scotland," commented Mr. Needleman. Over the course of his career, Mr. Needleman has worked for Cambrex, Oxford Asymmetry for whom he created a significant North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. presence, ChiRex Inc. as Vice President Business Development, Rhodia Pharma Solutions as General Manager Development Operations and most recently as President, North America for Arch Pharmalabs with headquarters and manufacturing operations Manufacturing operations concern the operation of a facility, as opposed to maintenance, supply and distribution, health, and safety, emergency response, human resources, security, information technology and other infrastructural support organizations. in India. Mr. Needleman received an MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration and a BSc in Chemical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, at Troy, N.Y.; coeducational; founded and opened 1824 as Rensselaer School; chartered 1826. It was called Rensselaer Institute from 1837 to 1861. . About Aptuit Aptuit, Inc. is an emerging company focused on streamlining and supporting the drug development process for biotechnology and pharmaceutical innovators. The company was founded by a group of industry experts with extensive market experience who have a track record of building a similar, highly successful company through acquisitions and investment. Aptuit will provide a comprehensive suite of product development services and competencies to biotechnology companies and large, fully integrated pharmaceutical companies worldwide. Aptuit's mission is to engineer a better drug development process. Aptuit is partnered with Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, one of the world's largest private equity investors. For more information about Aptuit, please visit www.aptuit.com. |
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