Summary
Che Chao is a trusted CAR-T operations leader with 20+ years of experience in Fortune 50 companies, currently serving as COE Lead, APAC CAR-T Commercial Operations Manager at Johnson & Johnson. He builds centralized infrastructures, guides launch readiness, and synchronizes cross-functional teams across local, regional, and global partners to accelerate patient-specific therapies in APAC. Notable achievements include a Site Certification framework enabling five site initiations and 82% launch readiness through rigorous simulations that surpassed the 80% target. As a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, he delivered over 50 CPI projects with $23M hard savings and helped design the future vein-to-vein CAR-T supply chain for Janssen. Based in Singapore, he is recognized for training innovation, notably the CAR-T Bootcamp that engaged 60 stakeholders, and has earned Platinum and Gold Encore awards for operations transformation.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Primary and Secondary, Primary and Secondary at Saint Jude Catholic School
ITIL V3 OSA (Operational Support & Analysis), ITIL V3 OSA (Operational Support & Analysis) at Loyalist Certification Services
Certified Lean Expert, Certified Lean Expert at Singapore Quality Institute
Bachelor of Science, Management Information Systems, Bachelor of Science, Management Information Systems at Ateneo de Manila University
ITIL Practitioner Certificate, Incident, Problem, and Change Management, ITIL Practitioner Certificate, Incident, Problem, and Change Management at Quint Wellington Redwood
Advanced Certificate, Training and Assessment, Advanced Certificate, Training and Assessment at Institute for Adult Learning
English, Filipino, Chinese, Spanish