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

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.
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.
Funded and authored the first editions of the thermal transport standards the industry now tests to.
First to own and operate an ISTA-certified thermal testing laboratory, so test design is written from inside the chamber.
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.
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
Not once did we fail. Because the person at the end of the cold chain was waiting for something they could not live without.

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.

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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