About Jesse Kolstad

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I'm the Director of Quality, Compliance and Formulation at Biovation Labs here in Salt Lake City, part of a larger organization, Wellful.

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We have both internal and external customers is what I call that. We have the brands that are all under the Wellful umbrella, that we're all part of the same company and we're they're predominant, if not entire manufacturer for capsules and tablets here by Biovation. But we also do some contract manufacturing with some large customers that you'll see out in in the industry, your Walgreens and CVSes and things like that, who also do, in the dietary supplement sector, predominantly joint health and men’s health really.

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But that's that's sort of the bread and butter.

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My background was in biochemistry. I spent about five years in the pharmaceutical industry doing method development and method validation for novel compounds at a Contract Research Organization.

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After a few years, I realized that the FDA was gunning for the nutraceuticals industry, and I thought it would be advantageous to make the switch to this industry from pharma.

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And so far I've been correct. I started at a big contract manufacturer in Nelson Nutraceuticals. Worked my way up there. Um, actually the big break there was I launched MasterControl and I was the global admin for it and that's kind of how I started down the path of wanting a more automated, streamlined digital documentation and quality management system.

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This is the place I wanted to be in my career in this world class quality management system because it starts to manage itself. My job, I've always viewed, is to design myself out of my current job and Unifize absolutely has given me that ability.