Ralph Dröge is an independent consultant for quality management, project management, and compliance. His customers include well-known companies from the life sciences sector. In his 25 years of experience, he has managed numerous IT projects for the pharmaceutical and medical device industries, especially in the areas of manufacturing execution systems, laboratory information management, enterprise resource planning, and life cycle management for software and products. He is founder and Chair of Germany/Austria/Switzerland (D/A/CH) Affiliate Application of GAMP 5 in the Medical Device Field special interest group (SIG). He holds a degree in astrophysics and has been an ISPE member since 2009.