Adents Appoints EMEA Director

Christophe Carissimo was appointed director of EMEA (Europe, Middle East & Africa) Professional Services, Adents. Mr. Carissimo brings 17 of pharmaceutical manufacturing experience as well as the management of complex projects. He will be responsible for supporting Adents’ clients and partner network in the implementation of serialization projects.

The appointment of Mr. Carissimo reflects Adents’ objectives to accelerate integration of its software solution to enable pharma manufacturers to comply with the upcoming regulatory deadlines for drug serialization and traceability in Europe and the U.S.
 
“We will leverage Christophe’s deep expertise to assist our network of certified partners for the implementation of our Adents Seriza and Agents Prodigi solutions at customer facilities. His mission is to strengthen the EMEA Professional Services team, which is responsible for providing methodological and technical support,” said Christophe Devins, founder, chair and chief executive officer of Adents.
 
Mr. Carissimo has served as supply chain director of Leo Pharma, where he was responsible for  the digitalization of the company’s shipping system. He also supervised the implementation of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) system and of the CIP 13 Datamatrix at Norgine Pharma, where he managed a site for six years. He was also in charge of the “Serialization, Aggregation and Tamper-evidence” project at Sanofi’s Le Trait site in Normandy, France, where he coordinated the roll-out of these processes across 10 strategic production lines and oversaw the first line fully equipped with serialization.
 
He now also represents Adents in working groups within GS1 Healthcare and ISPE on topics concerning patient safety.