AVS Life Sciences - A Corporate Perspective
In June 1998, AVS, Inc. was created to provide consulting expertise on biopharmaceutical projects in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, with a focus on automation and validation services. The organization's growth included the addition of capabilities and personnel, eventually engaging on a global scale for engineering and validation projects.
In May 2022, AVS Inc. became AVS LLC after being acquired by Altura Healthcare. This streamlined the service offerings and expanded AVS's footprint within the biopharma and medical device sectors.
In the years since AVS was founded, the firm has steadily grown a broadening portfolio of services, including international engineering and validation projects, delivered by a team of highly skilled engineers and scientists. This year, AVS has strengthened and expanded its capabilities further with recent acquisitions of MWA Consulting and C&A Consulting, providing best-in-class consulting services in terms of quality, regulatory, commissioning, qualification, and validation. With the acquisitions and broadening of services, AVS is now commonly known as AVS Life Sciences to incorporate its new capabilities and strengths.
AVS Life Sciences is continuing to improve lives, not simply by ensuring that safe and effective healthcare and life-sciences products and technologies are brought to market to help save lives.
Meet Our CEO: Ruben Taborda
Drawing upon his experiences with one of the nation’s largest pharmaceutical firms, AVS Life Sciences's Chief Executive Officer Ruben Taborda became keenly aware of the impact procurement approaches based on “fewer and larger” vendors can have on smaller companies and their people. There can be socio-economic flux with the relationship large corporations have on local communities and can affect the health and stability of the regions they are in.
Ruben is proud of the firm’s commitment to diversity and inclusion. 70% of AVS’s employees are minority and female, and the firm has a vested interest in helping grow economically impacted areas. While the company supports charities such as the YMCA and others, Ruben believes that corporate philanthropy goes only so far. Hiring qualified people from the community and giving them opportunities helps to create robust and resilient communities.
Ruben also cites his own experience as a member of an immigrant family who came to America with nothing. Education and the opportunity to work allowed him to escape from poverty. He believes that small businesses, still the most significant employment segment in the aggregate, will continue to fulfill the role of offering opportunities that otherwise might not exist. This is why AVS Life Sciences makes the extra effort to invest in minorities, women, and veterans in the company’s hiring and talent development. Ruben emphasizes that the focus on inclusion is why he often feels humbled and honored to lead an organization like AVS Life Sciences.
Looking to the years ahead, AVS Life Sciences' strategic vision is clear. The company’s mission remains to provide innovative solutions to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and diagnostic industries, from concept to care.
AVS Life Sciences will continue to work to advance healthcare and enable the successful development and commercialization of medical products. Through dedicated compliance consulting efforts, AVS Life Sciences supports clients in strategy, development, gap assessment and resolution, regulatory submissions, CQV, quality, and compliance.
The company’s vision is to grow into new territories worldwide and continue to help customers achieve their development through commercialization goals.
AVS Live Sciences will continue to build a great culture where people enjoy learning, are supported in achieving their passions in the industry, and have fun while doing it. One in which people can see how they contribute to the company and help the human condition through healthcare.
With a great customer focus and a mindset of diversity and inclusion, AVS Life Sciences partners with its clients and consultants to build a more robust future together.