BethAri’s consultants have held senior leadership posts in international pharmaceutical companies and directed departments within national medicines regulatory authorities.
Between them, our team members have inspected manufacturing facilities, audited clinical supply chains, and evaluated regulatory quality systems across Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Americas.
Every project is directly managed and delivered by one of the senior practitioners featured below. We do not delegate client work to junior staff.
Credentials: PhD, MSc, Executive MBA, CChem MRSC | CQI/IRCA Certified Lead Auditor (GMP Quality Systems & ISO 9001:2015)
Chinedu founded BethAri in 2007 and has directed each of its flagship assignments, including the QMS assessments of 17 national medicines regulatory authorities for WAHO, the West African pharmaceutical manufacturing study for the ECOWAS Commission, and global regulatory automation roadmaps for European pharmaceutical clients.
He brings over 25 years of quality, compliance, and regulatory leadership across pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and medical devices. He began his career as an analytical scientist at GSK, Biovail, and Boston Scientific—where he designed and established a greenfield GMP Quality Control laboratory—before advancing to executive quality leadership roles at PPD, UCB, and Haleon.
Credentials: B.Pharm (Hons), MSc, MPA | Fellow of the West African Postgraduate College of Pharmacists (FPCPharm) & Ghana College of Pharmacists (FGPC)
Benjamin brings over 25 years of distinguished experience in medicines registration, GMP inspection, and regulatory authority development. At Ghana’s Food and Drugs Board (now FDA Ghana), he served as Deputy Chief Executive, Head of the Drug Evaluation and Registration Division, and Acting Chief Executive. During his tenure, he directed the Board’s international GMP inspection programme, auditing over 20 pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities across Africa, Europe, and Asia. He subsequently served as Rector of the Ghana College of Pharmacists.
Since 2012, Ben has served as a World Bank Short-Term Consultant on medicines regulatory harmonisation across ECOWAS. He has advised the World Health Organization (WHO), the African Union (AU), and the United States Pharmacopeia (USP), contributed to the legal framework establishing the African Medicines Agency (AMA), and helped build or strengthen national regulatory systems in Liberia, Botswana, Rwanda, and Sierra Leone. For BethAri, Ben co-authored the 17-NMRA QMS assessment reports and the ECOWAS regional manufacturing mapping study.
Credentials: B.Sc Pharmacy | IRCA-Registered Lead Auditor | Nigeria National Quality Award Assessor
Bolarinwa is a pharmacist with over 30 years of comprehensive experience spanning national regulation, commercial pharmaceutical manufacturing, and community pharmacy. At the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Nigeria, he rose to Deputy Director and agency-wide Quality Manager in the Office of the Director General, where he established NAFDAC’s ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System and directed internal audits across all agency directorates.
Earlier, as Quality Manager in the Drug Evaluation and Research Directorate and Assistant Director in the Establishment Inspection Directorate, Bolarinwa planned and led official GMP inspections of sterile and oral-dosage manufacturing plants across Italy, China, India, Brazil, and Nigeria. He served as NAFDAC’s focal point to the World Health Organization on Substandard and Falsified (SF) Medical Products and co-authored five WHO-sponsored national regulatory guidelines. Prior to NAFDAC, he managed product development, marketing, and national sales for leading Nigerian pharmaceutical firms.
Credentials: B.Sc | Specialist in Nigerian Regulatory Agency Liaison
Dele has over 20 years of hands-on experience guiding international manufacturers through product registration, commercialisation, marketing, and distribution in Nigeria. Based in Kaduna, Nigeria, he leads BethAri’s local product registration operations and regulatory agency liaison.
He has successfully navigated complex approval pathways for international healthcare, cosmetic, food, and beverage manufacturers from Europe, Asia, and West Africa, securing product licenses and brand protection through NAFDAC, the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), and the Nigerian Trademark Registry.
Beyond our core leadership team, BethAri draws on an international network of senior independent specialists who join project teams when specific technical depth or regional presence is required.
Profile: Senior international regulatory leader with executive experience across global pharmaceutical companies and Contract Research Organizations (CROs).
Expertise: Global regulatory development pathways, CTA/IND filings, CTD dossier oversight, health authority engagement (EMA, FDA, MHRA), pharmacovigilance systems, medical information, and market access strategy. Managed regulatory teams across 48 countries with product approvals secured in over 160 markets.
Profile: Career analytical scientist, Chartered Chemist, and Qualified Person (QP) trainer based in Belgium with 45 years of experience in small-molecule and biological testing laboratories.
Expertise: Quality Control laboratory auditing, analytical method validation and technology transfer, stability testing programmes, statistical process control (SPC), pharmacopoeial compendial compliance, and out-of-specification (OOS) investigation frameworks.
Profile: Senior pharmacist and industrial policy specialist with an MBA and 16 years leading a national pharmaceutical manufacturers’ association in West Africa.
Expertise: Local pharmaceutical manufacturing capacity assessments, facility GMP upgrade roadmaps, industrial policy formulation, supply chain bottleneck analysis, and public-private dialogue between regional manufacturers, ministries, and international development partners.
Profile: French-speaking pharmacist based in Burkina Faso with advanced postgraduate training in epidemiology, biostatistics, and health research methods.
Expertise: On-site QMS assessments of national medicines regulatory authorities across francophone West and Central Africa, vaccine safety monitoring, post-marketing pharmacovigilance systems, and delivering bilingual regulatory training in English and French.
