About the NCBPNG Steering Committee

Current Team

Andrew Buckley

Andrew joined the NCBPNG Steering Committee in 2017. He is a Cancer Research Scientist at UNC-CH.

Keishea Edwards

Keishea joined the NCBPNG Steering Committee in 2022.

Liz Odera

Liz joined the NCBPNG Steering Committee in 2022.

Matthew Shearin

Matt joined the NCBPNG Steering Committee in 2023.

Drew Stuck

Drew joined the NCBPNG Steering Committee in 2024.

Adebimpe Adefolaju

Ade joined the SC in 2022 and is a Project Manager in the UNC-CH School of Pharmacy.

Theresa D’Aquila

Theresa joined the NCBPNG Steering Committee in 2022.

Marty O’Boyle

Marty O’Boyle currently serves as the Head of Consulting – North America for Koerber-Pharma, which specializes in pharma engineering consulting for life science manufacturing companies. He is also the founder and president of Sandpiper Technical Solutions, a full service solutions provider for biopharma laboratory automation. Marty started his engineering career as an applications engineer specializing in pneumatic, hydraulic, and electromechanical design. In 1999, he joined Klockner-Medipak Inc, in Clearwater, FL (now Koerber-Pharma) as a packaging machinery project engineer. Over a twenty-year period he fulfilled a variety of roles in service to Koerber’s clients in the life sciences market (Project Engineer, Project Manager, Validation Engineer, Technical Sales Director, and Technical Director for North American Operations). In 2019, Marty founded Sandpiper to expand into the growing field of life science automation, at the laboratory scale. Marty joined the NCBPNG Steering Committee in 2022.

Dhananjaya (DJ) Nayak

DJ joined the NCBPNG Steering Committee in 2023.

Pratik Chhatbar

Pratik joined the NCBPNG Steering Committee in 2024.