Ron Snee is Founder and President of Snee Associates, a firm dedicated to the successful implementation of process and organizational improvement initiatives. He provides guidance to senior executives in their pursuit of improved business performance using Quality by Design, Lean Six Sigma and other improvement approaches that produce bottom-line results. Prior to his consulting career he spent 24 years at the DuPont Company in a variety of assignments including pharmaceuticals. He has been developing and applying QbD methodologies for more than 30 years. His recent application and research on QbD have produced more than ten articles on the use of QbD in Pharma and Biotech. He has also coauthored 3 books on the methods and tools of QbD and speaks regularly at conferences and meetings on the subject. He teaches QbD and related methodologies as an Adjunct Professor at Temple University School of Pharmacy and Rutgers University Pharmaceutical Engineering program. Ron received his BA from Washington and Jefferson College and MS and Ph.D. degrees from Rutgers University. He is an academician in the International Academy for Quality and Fellow of the American Society of Quality, American Statistical Association, and American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is an Honorary Member of ASQ and has been awarded ASQ’s Shewhart, Grant and Distinguished Service Medals, and ASA’s Deming Lecture, W. J. Dixon Consulting, and Gerry Hahn Quality and Productivity Achievement Awards. He is a frequent speaker and has published 7 books and more than 330 papers in the fields of performance improvement, quality, management, and statistics. He is a past recipient of the Institute of Validation Technology Speaker of the Year Award.