Stephen M. Perry

Stephen M. Perry is the CEO and Founder of Kymanox – a diversified and global professional services company solely focused on the Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology, Medical Device, and Combination Product industries. Stephen has extensive CGxP experience as a Process Engineer, Technical Project Manager, Quality Auditor, and Regulatory Strategist.

Stephen currently leads an award-winning team of 300 professionals worldwide. Kymanox has been formally recognized as a top Life Science company in the Research Triangle Park (RTP) region by taking home Triangle Business Journal’s awards for # 1 Overall Life Science Company (Private) and #1 Fastest Growing Life Science Company (#4 All Categories) the past two years.

As an entrepreneur, Mr. Perry has successfully attracted growth capital from WestView Capital Partners and has further grown the unique Kymanox platform with the acquisition of four companies since 2021. Mr. Perry has also helped several CEOs raise Seed Funding and Series A venture capital. Stephen is also an active angel investor in the start-up community and Limited Partner (LP) in various funds.

Before starting Kymanox in 2004, Stephen had various leadership roles supporting scale-up, start-up, and commercialization initiatives at Abbott Laboratories (now AbbVie), FujiFilm Diosynth Biotechnologies (a global CDMO), and Human Genome Sciences (now GSK).

Stephen has a diverse educational background with a high-honors bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame and studied at the graduate level at Purdue University. Stephen is a long-time supporter of the International Society of Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE), Parental Drug Association (PDA), Project Management Institute (PMI), and Regulatory Affairs Professional Society (RAPS).

In Stephen’s personal life, he supports his wife who homeschools their four children and who also manages a regenerative, organic farm in rural North Carolina. Stephen and his wife also manage a philanthropy fund that has helped several non-profit organizations maintain and expand their community-based services.