Biotechnology
10 Moderna operations leaders
These ten leaders hold or have held director-level or higher operations roles at Moderna, including manufacturing, drug substance, drug product and site leadership positions. A reader can learn from them how Moderna organizes its manufacturing, site and technical operations and what it takes to run them.
Professionals to explore
01—10Amanda Ashcraft
LinkedInExperience: Site Head, VP Norwood Drug Substance Operations · Moderna
Site Head, VP Norwood Drug Substance Operations at Moderna since November 2025. As Head of Global Drug Substance Process and Laboratory Strategy at Moderna (2025), she led global strategy and execution for the Drug Substance network and lab integration, including long-range planning and alignment across sites. She was also Executive Director, Head of Quality at Moderna (2023–2025).
Deborah Soto-Ortega
LinkedInExperience: Executive Director - Site Head · Moderna
Executive Director - Site Head at Moderna since November 2025, a role her profile headline ties to Moderna's INT site. She writes that as Head of Operations at Moderna's Marlborough INT facility she led its operational startup, beginning from construction. Her other Moderna roles include Sr. Director, INT Commercial Ops Readiness Lead (2023–2025) and Sr. Director, Engineering Projects - Clinical Manufacturing (2022–2023).
Elizabeth Sullivan
LinkedInExperience: INT Site Head, Executive Director of Operations · Moderna
INT Site Head, Executive Director of Operations at Moderna since January 2023. At Adverum Biotechnologies she was Executive Director, Manufacturing and Operations, Site Head (2021) and Vice President, Tech Ops Executive Director, Tech Development (2021–2022). Her profile says she has built and scaled operations across mRNA, gene therapy and monoclonal antibodies.
Jake Haworth
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Operations · Moderna
Senior Director of Operations at Moderna since October 2025. His other Moderna roles include Director, Research and Early Development Operations (2023–2025) and Associate Director, Research & Early Development Operations (2022–2023). He has also been Secretary, Board of Directors at LabOps Unite Community since 2023.
Jeff Savard
LinkedInExperience: VP, Norwood Drug Substance Site Head · Moderna
Former VP, Norwood Drug Substance Site Head at Moderna (2024–2025) and Executive Director, DS Operations there (2022–2024); he has been Head, INT Manufacturing at Moderna since November 2025. He was Senior Director, Single Use Facility Manufacturing at Bristol Myers Squibb (2021–2022), and his profile describes leading technical, investigation and continuous improvement teams for biologics drug substance manufacturing.
Jerh Collins
LinkedInExperience: Chief Technical Operations and Quality Officer · Moderna
Chief Technical Operations and Quality Officer at Moderna since October 2022; his profile headline also lists him as an Executive Committee Member at Moderna. At Novartis he was Chief Culture Officer (2020–2022), Global People & Organization Transformation Lead (2019–2020) and Head of Global Chemical Operations and Anti-Infectives (2017–2019).
Michelle Rodriguez
LinkedInExperience: VP, Drug Product Operations · Moderna
VP, Drug Product Operations at Moderna since June 2023. Her other roles include Vice President Global Quality for Biologic & Sterile Ops at Bristol Myers Squibb (2020–2023), Head of Quality, Latin America & Puerto Rico at Teva Pharmaceuticals (2018–2020) and Executive Director Quality at Novartis (2012–2018).
Nicolas Chornet
LinkedInExperience: Senior Vice President Manufacturing and Site Head MITC · Moderna
Former Senior Vice President Manufacturing and Site Head MITC at Moderna (2024–2025), a role his profile places in Harwell, England. His other Moderna roles were Senior Vice President International Resilience Manufacturing (2023–2024), Senior Vice President International Manufacturing (2020–2023) and Senior Vice President Manufacturing and Site Head Norwood (2019–2020). He was General Director (Site Head) of Novartis Technical Operations Solids Site Spain (2015–2019).
Sean Gaskell
LinkedInExperience: SVP, Global Drug Substance Operations · Moderna
SVP, Global Drug Substance Operations at Moderna since May 2023. His other roles include SVP, Chief Technical Officer at Alvotech (2020–2023) and, at Novartis, VP, Manufacturing Operations & Site Head (2018–2020) and Site Head, Drug Substance Bioproduction Basel (2017–2018). His profile cites experience across small molecules, biologics, gene therapies and mRNA vaccines.
Tara Tibbs Jones, PhD
LinkedInExperience: SVP Drug Product Operations and Global Head of MS&T AS&T · Moderna
SVP Drug Product Operations and Global Head of MS&T AS&T at Moderna since July 2025. Her other Moderna roles include SVP Global Drug Product Operations (2023–2025) and Senior Vice President North America Operations (2022–2023). At Amgen she was Vice President Drug Substance Operations (2021–2022) and Executive Director, Drug Substance Plant Manager (2019–2021).
Choose the right perspective
Match the person's area, such as drug substance, drug product, site leadership or technical operations, to the operational question you face. Also check whether the person's Moderna role is current or past and how recently they held it, so their experience fits the period you care about.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you organize operations across drug substance, drug product and site teams so handoffs don't slow production?
- 02What did it take to bring a new manufacturing site or line from startup to routine GMP operation?
- 03How do you balance speed, cost and quality when planning manufacturing capacity for a biotech portfolio?
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