Meena Chettiar is currently working as a Principal Product Development Quality engineer at Freudenberg Medical in Minnesota, USA. Meena has worked in several capacities over the past 20 years in several high level Quality and Regulatory Management positions at pharmaceutical and medical device companies such as ProMed Pharma, Covidien, Teva Pharmaceuticals and NAMSA. She has also worked as QC lab supervisor at Land O’ Lakes in Minnesota and for Agriculture and Health Canada in several technical capacities for about 10 years.

Meena has participated as the lead supplier/internal/GMP auditor in several compliance audits in the US, India, Costa Rica, Mexico and Puerto Rico. She is a senior member of ASQ (American Society for Quality) and is ASQ certified CQA (Certified Quality Auditor), CBA (Certified Biomedical Auditor), CQIA (Certified Quality Improvement Associate), and CMQ/OE (Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence).She has served as an instructor for these ASQ certification classes since 2006. She is a certified instructor for ASQ learning institute for CBA and has been an adjunct instructor for Medical Technology Quality graduate program for St. Cloud State University in Minnesota since 2013. She is a coauthor of the CBA (Certified Biomedical Auditor) Primer for the Quality Council of Indiana.

Ms. Chettiar received her M.S. in Regulatory Affairs for Medical Devices in Minnesota, Chemical engineering from University of British Columbia in Canada and her B.S. and M.S in Applied Chemistry from the University of Madras, India.