Kenneth V. Phelps

President and CEO
Camargo Pharmaceutical Services

Kenneth Phelps relied on more than three decades of experience in the health science and services industry to found Camargo Pharmaceutical Services in 2003. As an expert in end-to-end drug development, specifically the 505(b)(2) regulatory approval pathway, Phelps and his team attain two to five pre-IND meetings before the FDA per month. Aiding companies across more than 25 countries, Camargo provides successful FDA approval of numerous drug products each year.

Before founding Camargo, his broad background in drug development had led to a number of executive-level assignments in the areas of quality control, project management and regulatory, clinical and medical affairs at Duramed Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (now Teva Pharmaceuticals).

Prior to his work for Duramed, Phelps held a number of positions at Merrell National Labs, which merged to become Merrell Dow and eventually evolved into Sanofi-Aventis. At Merrell he had global responsibility for quality assurance, quality control and processing technology with an assignment based in Milan, Italy. He later directed IT for multinational manufacturing operations, leading to technical improvements in R&D, accounting and manufacturing operations.