Paul Houri
JOHNSON & JOHNSON
Vice President, Head of BioResearch Quality Assurance
Paul Houri is currently the Vice President, Head of BioResearch Quality Assurance at Johnson & Johnson.
Paul is responsible for setting the vision and strategy for BioResearch Quality Assurance, a global team focused on execution of non-regulated, GLP, GCP and PV audits and quality control activities. This includes effectively and efficiently delivering the audit program to ensure Janssen’s compliance with global, local regulatory and internal quality and compliance standards and to ensure end-to-end quality oversight. In this role, Paul partners closely with internal and external stakeholders to develop innovative quality oversight, utilizing analytics-based audits and reviews and predictive metrics to focus on key risk areas and improve efficiencies through automation in processes.
Paul brings over 23 years of experience in quality and compliance related functions to this role. He started his career with Warner-Lambert in the Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) environment working as an Analytical Chemist and progressing to work as a Quality Engineer. Paul then joined Pfizer where he made the transition to the GCP and GVP environments, holding various positions of increasing responsibility in Quality Assurance and Compliance. Paul joined Johnson & Johnson in 2007 as the Director, Americas Regional Head for Pharmacovigilance QA and in 2008 was appointed Senior Director, Americas Regional Head for Global System Quality Assurance focused on GCP, GVP, and IT compliance. From 2012-2017, Paul served as the Vice President, Head of BioResearch Regulatory Compliance, establishing and leading the group which has delivered expert regulatory compliance capabilities, including inspection management and regulatory intelligence programs, conducting special compliance investigations, and facilitating compliance remediation activities across the Johnson & Johnson R&D organizations.
Paul earned a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from the University of Scranton, a Masters in Quality Engineering from Lehigh University, and a Masters in Business Administration from St. John’s University.
