About2006 — 2026

Twenty years in the cold.

A career defined by firsts, and the person who will lead your work.

01Founded 200602Inc. 5000 No. 295003MIT Leadership & Innovation04Five emergency responses
06Who leads your work

Carli Derifield, Founder & SME Consultant

Carli Derifield
Founder & SME Consultant · Newport Beach, CA

Twenty years across cold chain, quality and regulatory, on the buy side and the build side. Third cold chain company, after building and exiting two packaging companies.

First to own and operate an ISTA-certified thermal testing laboratory. Funded and authored the first ISTA Standards 20, 14 and 7E. Expert author on the Pharma.Aero PQI paper on supplier qualification.

Called in for H1N1, Ebola, Hurricane Maria, COVID-19 and Hurricane Ida.

2024
MIT Leadership & Innovation
2022
Inc. 5000 Honoree · No. 2,950
2011
First ISTA-certified thermal laboratory
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ISTA Standards 20, 14 and 7E author
The leader you actually get

The person who writes your strategy is the person who executes it, answers the agency's questions about it, and is in the building for the inspection. No account manager. No hand-off to a junior team after the sale.

Subject matter expertise

We funded and wrote the standards your filing will be judged against.

01

ISTA Standards 20, 14 and 7E

Funded and authored the first editions of the thermal transport standards the industry now tests to.

02

First ISTA-certified thermal lab

First to own and operate an ISTA-certified thermal testing laboratory, so test design is written from inside the chamber.

03

Pharma.Aero PQI

Expert author on supplier qualification, the paper that shaped how the sector assesses its providers.

When a reviewer asks why a method is acceptable, the answer is not an opinion. It is the standard, and we helped write it.

Why we do it

There is a person at the end of every shipment, waiting for something they cannot live without.Twenty years on, that is still the only reason any of this matters.

— Carli Derifield, Founder

04Twenty years · Five responses

3 pandemics. 2 disasters. 1 answer.

2009
H1N1
FEMA response
2014
Ebola
UNICEF & FEMA
2017
Hurricane Maria
Puerto Rico
2019
COVID-19
Johnson & Johnson
2021
Hurricane Ida
New Orleans
Not once did we fail. Because the person at the end of the cold chain was waiting for something they could not live without.
Field incident archive: four tests, all passed
Field incident archive · four unplanned events · all tests passed
Inc. 5000 · No. 2950

Meeting white-hot demand for cold chain logistics.

Cold Chain Consult was named to the Inc. 5000 with 184% three-year growth, driven by rising demand for temperature-sensitive biologics and medical devices.

184%
3-yr growth
5
employees
3
cold chain firms
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When it cannot fail.

Tell us where the cold chain is uncertain and we will tell you what it would take to make it defensible: strategy, evidence and the answer at the filing.

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Carli Derifield
carli@coldchainconsult.com
+1 714 262 6955
Office
2901 W Coast Hwy
Newport Beach, CA 92663
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Cold Chain Consult — Your Missing Link

Founded by Carli Derifield — 20+ years transforming cold chain operations globally. Inc. 5000 #2,950. Newport Beach, CA.

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