Ray McKinney is responsible for NNIT’s US-West deliveries, managing teams covering IT quality assurance, quality records authoring, systems validation, and disaster recovery. He has supervisory and hands-on experience with deploying several SaaS systems including Veeva Quality, ComplianceWire, and TraceLink.

His experience in the pharmaceutical industry goes back to what may have been the first ever implementation of the GAMP guide in 1995. After gaining first-hand experience of commissioning and deploying automation systems for pharmaceutical equipment firms, he specialized in quality systems development. Joining NNIT in 2012, his more recent work has focused on developing the managed-service delivery model. Ray is a native of Glasgow, Scotland and holds an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Strathclyde and an MBA from Columbia University. Now resident in the San Francisco bay area, when he is not working Ray can be found on a stand-up paddleboard or hiking.

Whether it is the incremental improvements or the radical re-thinking of IT technology required to achieve advantage, innovation matters. NNIT is based in the global centers of the Life Sciences industry in the US, Europe and Asia. In the German speaking countries, NNIT is based in Frankfurt (Germany) and Basel (Switzerland), thus in the center of a flourishing Life Sciences industry. We are well-known for our ability to bring inspiration and vision to life and to work with both IT and business groups to help them connect and transform data into valuable information. ​ We are not just service providers and advisors; we are project managers, scientists, engineers, digital and data experts. We work in lab environments, clinical operations, regulatory affairs, manufacturing and supply chain and on system validation across the value chain. It is in this diverse mix, where we bring people and technology together, ideas are created, nurtured and delivered and the future of our Life Sciences clients is refined.