Master-class

Mr. Nguyen Ly is Executive Director, Biologics Technical Product Leader in the Manufacturing Division at MSD, where he is responsible for advancing the technical organization to support successful life cycle management of biologics product portfolio. Over the past 22 years at MSD, Mr. Ly has held a broad range of technical roles across the manufacturing network and has supported numerous technology transfers for vaccine and biologics products. Mr. Ly began his career as an engineer within the bulk API manufacturing organization and moved on to technical roles with increasing responsibilities in Vaccine Technology and Engineering, the Biologics Pilot Plant, and External Manufacturing Drug Substance and Drug Product. While at MSD, Mr. Ly took on an international assignment supporting transition of an internal clinical site to commercial in support of accelerating Keytruda commercialization as well as establishing the External Manufacturing Technical organization in Switzerland. More recently, Mr. Ly took on the role of Keytruda Technical Product Leader while also working to establish the Biologics Technical Product Leadership organization. Mr. Ly holds a Bachelors of Science Degree from Drexel University in Chemical Engineering and is a graduate of the Emerging Leaders Program from Harvard University. Over the course of his career at MSD, Mr. Ly has acquired deep technical knowledge and combined with his strong leadership and collaboration skills, has established himself as a critical asset for the vaccines and biologics products.