Kenneth Hamilton

Ken Hamilton is a chemical engineer with over 30 years experience. He has a Masters and Ph.D. from University of Wales and undergraduate at University of Manchester Science & Technology, in the UK. His background includes process and facility design and engineering and leading projects to enable drug substance manufacturing sites to receive new products and platforms. He also undertakes process economic analyses for new processes.
He is a Distinguished Engineer at Roche/Genentech, in their global technology organization, and has been at Roche/Genentech for the past 17 years. Responsibilities include leading evaluations of new process platforms and new equipment technologies for manufacturability and cost, working closely with R&D, Finance, business strategy groups and the drug substance manufacturing sites. Previously, he led the process-engineering group at one of the drug substance sites, supporting ongoing manufacturing operations and the engineering aspects of product transfers to the site.
He was chapter president of the ISPE San Diego chapter, and is a co-lead for the NIIMBL Sustainability team. Several years ago, he was an affiliate professor at Colorado State University. Ken has made roughly 20 presentations and publications to the biopharm industry. He is also a proud father of a UCLA graduate (2019).