Fabrice Le Garrec, Founder of OSICS Network
Fabrice Le Garrec stands as the visionary founder of OSICS Network, bringing to the table an impressive track record spanning over 25 years in the realms of product development and manufacturing performance transformations. His expertise is particularly invaluable for CEOs navigating the complex waters of large-scale turnarounds, organizational growth, and change management initiatives.
A luminary in the Pharmaceutical and Biotech sectors, Fabrice is widely acclaimed for his mastery in Lean methodologies, Operational Excellence, and Change Management. His career is marked by a unique blend of cultural transformation, quality enhancement, and cost reduction programs, resulting in tangible successes across various industries and within complex, large-scale corporate structures.
Fabrice’s leadership style is both pragmatic and inspirational, making him a role model in ‘on the ground’ change leadership. He is known for quickly building credibility with teams and excelling in demanding environments that call for swift analysis, decisive action, and robust teamwork under pressure. His driving force is a deep-seated passion for unleashing human potential, ensuring that transformations are not only effective but also sustainable.
His career highlights include:
- Serving as a CDMO Business Unit Director for a Biologics producer, overseeing 60 ME in sales and managing a team of 200 employees.
- Leading a crucial supply task force at Moderna/Lonza for the ramp-up of a COVID-19 vaccine, focusing on enhancing manufacturing output, reducing deviations, and slashing release lead times to facilitate massive global supply in record time.
- Holding the role of EVP – COO and Board Member at Bekaert Deslee, where he was instrumental in global operations performance improvements and turnaround strategies across 17 sites worldwide, leveraging a central control tower, a digital transformation program, and CI/Lean practices.
- Spearheading the global transformation in Operational Excellence at Teva Pharmaceuticals, leading an organization of 200 experts and 25 global OPEX change leaders, achieving over 100 million USD in cost improvements within four years. His approach significantly elevated employee engagement, empowerment, and capability building.
- Leading a comprehensive 3-year Manufacturing Excellence transformation at GSK Vaccines, focusing on all stages of Manufacturing, QC, QA, and instilling a culture of Right first-time quality to drive efficiencies.
Before his tenure at GSK, Fabrice was a leading Lean expert at McKinsey & Company, serving global clients in operational improvements, including three major Big Pharma companies. His earlier career saw him in senior management roles in the automotive sector, including a stint at Toyota, where he honed his expertise in ‘quality by design’, particularly as Quality Engineering Manager, pioneering high-quality processes and products right from the design stage.
Fabrice is an alumnus of the Cranfield School of Management (UK), holding an MBA. He is also a certified APM project manager and boasts a Master’s in Engineering with a specialization in plastic processing technologies from Ecole des Mines, a prestigious French engineering school.