Shawn Kinney is the CEO of Supplier Sentinel Inc. (SSI), a newly founded company that provides supplier assessment/evaluation services to the biotech, pharmaceutical and medical device industries. Prior to co-founding SSI, Dr. Kinney was founder and CEO of Hyaluron Contract Manufacturing (HCM), a sterile contract manufacturing organization that was recently acquired. Dr. Kinney has significant experience in pharmaceutical formulation, scale up and sterile filling of drugs, proteins, and viscous products in syringes and vials. He holds patents in bubble free filling, speaks frequently at industry conferences on sterile filling and prefilled syringes and he has numerous publications. Prior to founding HCM, Dr. Kinney was Vice President of Operation at Anika Therapeutics, where he was responsible for sterile manufacturing and filling of syringes for orthopedic and ophthalmic products.
Dr. Kinney holds a doctorate in Chemistry from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, a Master of Science in Medicinal Chemistry from Northeastern University and a Bachelor of Science from Southeastern Massachusetts University. He is a member of the Parenteral Drug Association, and the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists. He is a regular speaker at pre-filled syringe conferences and holds patents in sterile syringe filling technologies.