Boigraphy — Dr Vinny Sastri

Biography — Dr Vinny Sastri

Vinny Sastri, Ph.D., is the President of WINOVIA^® LLC. WINOVIA provides companies customized solutions, strategies, training and implementation of effective, self-sustaining new product development and quality management processes. Areas of expertise include product life cycle management and Design for Six Sigma, manufacturing, process validation and Six Sigma, FDA and ISO quality systems for medical devices and pharmaceuticals, risk management and plastics. He is a certified Six Sigma black-belt and has a strong track record in instituting and implementing growth and quality initiatives into client organizations around the world, resulting in new product sales, manufacturing efficiencies and productivity. His 25 years of experience span technology, manufacturing, marketing and quality in markets like medical devices, plastics, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, automotive, consumer goods, packaging, fibers and textiles.

Dr. Sastri is the author of the book Plastics in Medical Devices: Properties, Requirements and Applications published by Elsevier, London in April 2010.

Prior to starting WINOVIA LLC, Dr. Sastri held global leadership positions in technology, quality, manufacturing and marketing in companies like BASF, AlliedSignal and GE Plastics. Dr. Sastri earned a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Rutgers University, and completed post-doctoral work at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. He was an Adjunct Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. He has over 20 publications and 6 patents and has presented several webinars and at many international conferences in the United States, Europe and Asia. Dr. Sastri is on the faculty of the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) that provides training on the FDA Quality Systems Regulation and Industry Practice to the medical device industry.

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