Steven A. Jacobs, MBA, R.Ph. – President

Steve is a highly skilled professional with more than 25 years of drug, biotech, teamwork, leadership and training experience for U.S. and International markets.   He has a unique combination of Clinical Supply Chain, Regulatory, Logistics, Analytical, Quality, and Business Development expertise.  Goal-directed, results-oriented, with a strong leadership, management and strategic planning background, Steve has been successful in operations process efficiency assessment, restructuring, improvement and change management.  He has worked in large pharmaceutical organizations; a virtual medium-sized Pharma company, start up vendor clinical supplies company and was CEO of a startup company in the fire safety space. His leadership background includes his service to the US as an Army officer, helicopter and airplane pilot and logistics manager and soldier. Steve has spent more than two decades in growing leadership roles with greater accountability, responsibility, headcount and shareholder duties.  

Steve is gregarious, personable and an excellent speaker, trainer and relationship builder.  As a leader of productive multidisciplinary teams in matrixed global organizations, his direction set new standards while maintaining quality and balanced operating costs.  He has strong problem resolution and project coordination abilities, providing consistent direction for customers, companies, employees, CROs, and other stakeholders.  Steve has exceptional writing and communication skills; and is an excellent global teamwork and meeting facilitator who knows the challenges of culture and virtual teams.

Christine Riches - Director of Operations

Christine Riches is the Director of Operations for GBS. Christine has worked at Global BioPharm Solutions (GBS) for 4 years utilizing her strong organizational and people skills.

With Christine's friendly outlook and experience running project management offices (PMO's), this makes her the perfect person to oversee GBS operations as well as handling meeting and training registrations and attendance at all GBS training courses and conferences.  She is responsible for identifying training and consulting site locations, logistics and sponsor support.