Background
Dean, Douglas Philip was born on November 30, 1954 in New Westminster, B.C., Canada. Son of William Douglas and Elaine Ethel Dean. Lived in the UK and Germany, arrived in Switzerland, 1993.
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Dean, Douglas Philip was born on November 30, 1954 in New Westminster, B.C., Canada. Son of William Douglas and Elaine Ethel Dean. Lived in the UK and Germany, arrived in Switzerland, 1993.
Bachelor of Applied Science, Engineering Physics, U.B.C., Vancouver, 1978;
Doctor of Philosophy, Electrical Engineering, U.B.C., Vancouver, 1984.
Project Manager, Medical Engineering Research Unit, Shaughnessy Hospital, Vancouver, 1982-1986;
Director Engineering, Allen-Bradley Process Control Center Excellence, Vancouver, 1986-1989;
Director Business Development, Integrated Automation Sys., Newcastle, England, 1989-1991;
Director European Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Business Unit, Digital Equipment Equipment Corp., Munich, 1991-1994;
Senior Partner Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Business Sector, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Basel, Switzerland, 1994-2002;
Vice President, IBM Business Consulting Services, Basel, Switzerland, 2003-2005;
Senior Vice President R&D, Philip Morris International, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2006-2014;
Principal, DSMC Nordwand, Engelberg, Switzerland, 2015-present.
Agnostic.
Member International Society Pharmaceutical Engineering, Parenteral Drug Association, British Research Quality Association, Canadian Society of Theoretical Biologists, Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers.
Married Diane Jane Gatley, May 15, 1979 (divorced 1984). Married Susan Lynn Turriff, March 1990 (divorced 1993). Married Silke Haack, June 3, 1994, (divorced 2010). Married Frances Louise Hancock, November 30, 2012.