Manufacturing Network Strategy: “You Can’t Have Your Cake and Eat It”: Pfizer, Biogen, Astellas and ROIS

Policy shifts, tariff threats and a wave of U.S. investment announcements have left outsourcing leaders asking the same question: do you consolidate to fewer, deeper CDMO partnerships, or spread out to protect supply?

That was the debate at CDMO Live Americas in Boston, where a panel session explored manufacturing network optimization. The session, sponsored by ROIS, brought together:

• Joseph Graskemper, General Manager, Early Phase Development & Manufacturing, Biogen
• Gretchen Peck, Senior Director, Strategy & Program Management, Pfizer
• Amber Meriwether, Corporate Strategy, Astellas
• Kimberlee Steele, Chief Commercial Officer, ROIS

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