Our
Team
Rae
Liu
Prior to founding Continuum Partner Consulting, Ms. Liu was Director of
Product and Process Development and Director of Project Management at a
global multi-billion dollar company in the nutrition, dietary
supplement, and personal-care industry. Ms. Liu managed the
company’s global product development project portfolio in 63
countries, helped the company re-launch products in China, and
established stage-gate product development process from concept to
commercialization.
Ms. Liu is recognized as an accomplished product formulator. In
her years at Pharmavite as a senior formulator, she developed numerous
new products generating hundreds of millions of dollars in the
market. Prior to Pharmavite, Ms. Liu was in charge of research
and development at a premium contract manufacturer, developing and
launching products for domestic and international clients.
Partnering with the industry top cGMP experts, Ms. Liu helps clients to
comply with the newly finalized FDA cGMP for dietary supplement,
develops and implements cGMP systems, conducts third-party audits, and
provides training. Of Chinese descent, she is passionate for
helping US manufacturers and Chinese suppliers to ensure safety and
quality of products.
Ms. Liu has 20 years’ experience of product development, process
development, regulatory compliance, and project management in the
dietary supplement, functional food, personal care, and pharmaceuticals
industries. She has a MBA degree, a Master degree in Food
Science, and is a Certified Project Management Professional. She
speaks fluent English, Mandarin, and Cantonese.
Joy Joseph
Ms. Joseph is a widely respected expert in the pharmaceutical, dietary
supplement, and cosmetic industries. In the last five decades,
she hold leadership positions in various companies in charge of
manufacturing, quality, research and development, technical operations,
regulatory and scientific affairs, and customer education, etc.
After retiring as the vice president of Science and Technology at
Pharmavite in 2005, Ms. Joseph became a highly demanded consultant and
lecturer specializing in GMP training, auditing for FDA or other
regulatory compliance, designing and setting up QC laboratories and
quality systems, and pharmaceutical solid dosage research and
development, etc. Working with the Counsel for Responsible
Nutrition (CRN), she played a key role in drafting the original GMP
guidelines submitted to the FDA, for which she was awarded the Steuben
Apple Award in 2005.
Ms. Joseph is Chair of the USP Sub-Committee of Revision (Nutritional
Supplements) and was elected to the Executive Committee of USP for the
2005-2010 revision cycle. She has served on various Board of
Directors, Committees, and Scientific Advisory Boards, including USP,
CRN, University of California School of Pharmacy, and Virgo Publishing
Company.
Ms. Joseph is active in sharing her decades of industrial experience. Her publications include:
1. “,Regulation of Quality and Quality Issues Worldwide”, Regulation of Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals, First Edition, Blackwell Publishing LTD., Iowa, USA 2005
2. “Formulation Challenges in The Dietary Supplement Industry, Vitamin and Minerals”, Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms, 3rd Edition, Taylor and Francis Group Publishing Inc, New York USA, pending publication, 2008
3. Various articles on manufacturing and quality in, Tablets and Capsules, CSC Publishing, Inc, MN USA, 2005 and 2006
4. Various articles on Quality in Nutritional Outlook trade magazine, 2004-2005
