From Virologist to CTO: Leading Quality Through Crisis, with Kimberly Garko

Podcast: Let's Talk Quality · Hemish Ilangaratne

Opublikowano: 2026-05-12

From the lab bench to the C-Suite - and every crisis in between. In today's episode I was joined by Kimberly Garko, former Senior Vice President and Chief Technical Officer at Akebia Therapeutics. I really wanted to speak to Kim because her career trajectory is unlike almost anyone else I have interviewed on this show. She is a PhD virologist who began her career in the QC lab at Biogen, and over the following two decades built herself into one of the most accomplished quality and technical operations executives in the...