Rob Guenard, PhD, leads the Global Process Analytics Group (GPA) at Biogen where he has been for 2.5 years. The GPA team has the mission to deliver analytics and PAT solutions for development and manufacturing across all product modalities including biologics, antisense oligonucleotides, pharma- ceuticals and gene therapies. He currently the sponsor for an Advanced Process Control Initiative being implemented at a Next Generation Manufacturing facility currently under construction. Rob has more than 21 years’ experience in the field of process analysis and control with prior experience at Merck and Dow Chemical.