Kurt Gasser

Head of Branch VTU Engineering in Visp. Led multidisciplinary engineering & CQV teams, delivering CAPEX projects. Partnered with customers to ensure operational readiness and compliance of small-, mid- & large-scale assets.

Senior Project Manager in the front end of plant engineering projects (Feasibility, Conceptual & Basic Design).

Led a team of experts in a matrix organization and drove the successful delivery in two CDMO projects in terms of quality, costs and time. Acted as single point of contact for the customer and functioned as the customer advocate on-site. Drove the communication within Lonza as well as between Lonza and the customer in regards to risks and issues and proactively managed resolutions. Controlled the project scope and in conjunction with business development team, prepared amendments and/or scope changes (mainl

Technical Project Management at the Research & Technology department of Lonza Speciality Ingredients (LSI), microbial fermentation, downstream processing, bioprocess development, technology transfer, scale-up and production support to Lonza's large scale bio manufacturing sites in CZ and US as well as evaluation and technical support to external toll manufacturers/CMO's (eg. in FR and IT).

Process Development at the Research & Development department of Lonza Speciality Ingredients (LSI), microbial fermentation, downstream processing, technology transfer, scale-up and production support to Lonza's large scale bio manufacturing sites in CZ as well as evaluation and technical support to external toll manufacturers/CMO's. Due diligence support at a large scale fermentation site in China.

Site Departement Leader Quality Assurance & Control for large scale production at Naturex's manufacturing site in Burgdorf BE (former Spreda, Obipektin AG). Member of the site leadership team. Food Safety (incl. HACCP) over all steps from process development, product- & process development at lab- & pilot scale to piloting & production at industrial scale, spray drying technology, Maintaining the Quality Management System for ISO9001. Over ten years experience for key supplier audits in China, Italy, Spain

Quality Control Associate & Product development Engineer for spray drying processes and new business development of NATUREX production site (former Spreda AG) in Burgdorf.

Production planning and steering (PPS) at Nestlé's former production site in Kempttal, coordination with the product management/marketing and central purchase department at Nestlé's headquarter Vevey towards optimized planning of the material stocks at the manufacturing site using EMS software tools (approx. 1'500 materials over 16'000 recipes)

Process confirmation study of an optimized Fed-batch bioprocess at 450L fermentation pilot scale (biotransformation of y-Butyrobetaine to L-Carnitine)

Fermentation Process Optimization at 20L Lab scale, Biotransformation with resting cells, Bioprocess Monitoring via on- and offline analytics and data evaluation on the PC

Apprenticeship in Technical Microbiology, Bioanalytics, Molecular Biology and Fermentation Technology at R&D Biotechnology of Lonza Exclusive Synthesis Sector

Delft University of Technology, The Institute for Biotechnology Studies, Microbial Physiology & Fermentation Technology

School of Management, Fudan University, Shanghai (PRC), Business models and companies in China

Berne University of Applied Sciences, Dept. Engineering & Information Technology

University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO Valais), Dept. Food- & Biotechnology

Apprenticeship as Laboratory Technician in Biology