David Cunning Email and Phone Number

David Cunning has over 25 years of experience in biopharmaceutical manufacturing, animal health, external manufacturing and procurement at Merck. He currently leads Procurement and External Manufacturing for the Merck Animal Health business, with a staff of 200 sourcing professionals located in the Asia-Pacific-Japan, Europe-MiddleEast-Africa, and Americas regions. In 2008-2011, he was based in Puerto Rico where he established and led Merck’s Latin American Regional Indirect Procurement organization. While at Merck, David has also held positions in Human Health Biological Quality Assurance, Vaccine & Sterile Manufacturing, and strategic sourcing of bulk biologics, vaccines, sterile and non-sterile drug products, Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients, and Consumer Healthcare products. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biology from the University of Pennsylvania. David has expertise in Strategic Sourcing; Negotiations; Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing; Aseptic Formulation, Filling, Lyophilization, and Packaging of Vaccine, Biological, and Sterile Pharmaceutical products; and Culture Media Manufacturing.