Richard E. Lemire

Global OT/IT Quality Services Inc.
Managing Partner
Richard Lemire has been in the pharmaceutical industry for 30 years. He began his career in 1986 at Novartis at the Ciba Technical Operations facility in Montreal, Canada. There, he and his team developed and implemented several integrated automation systems for manufacturing and packaging. In 1997 he was asked to move to the US to setup an automation department for the expanding Suffern site. Since the very beginning he has been involved in many global initiatives starting with PISA (Plant Information Systems Architecture) which is the precursor to the current Novartis TechOps IT architecture and what ultimately led to the current global MES (Manufacturing Execution System), the Global Production IT Systems strategy deployment and the Shop Floor of the Future.