Overview
Dimitri Woronoff is co-founder and chief executive of White Raven, a company he started in January 2023. He is based in Belgium.
Before that he was project director at Inovet from January 2021 to 2024, and held senior project management roles at Catalent in 2021 and at Delpharm from May 2020 to January 2022. In late 2019 he was programme manager for the end-to-end labelling and artwork programme at UCB, having spent the previous year and a half at Cenexi as senior project manager for new product introduction. He was a project and programme manager at Shire from 2012 to 2017, and a project engineer at Group-IPS from 2010 to 2015. Earlier positions include an assistant to the project manager at GSK in 2011, an analyst role at EarlyTracks in 2010 and an internship at Shinsei International in 2007.
Woronoff studied civil engineering at the Université catholique de Louvain, taking a bachelor's degree from 2003 to 2005 and a master's from 2007 to 2009. He also studied at CentraleSupélec from 2005 to 2008 and at Tomsk Polytechnic University in 2008.
Career history
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In the news
- Episode 10 of CDMO Career Stories is out now, featuring Dimitri Woronoff, Co-founder & CEO of White Raven. When it comes to building a team, Dimitri is clear that mindset matters most. A missing technical skill can be taught relatively easily, but as he puts it, “if someone is not fit for working in a startup environment, it will be very difficult to teach.” In the full episode, he talks with Charlie to share more on his career, how he approaches hiring and what it takes to build a high-performing team in the CDMO space. Watch
- Episode 10 of CDMO Career Stories is out now, featuring Dimitri Woronoff, Co-founder & CEO of White Raven. When it comes to building a team, Dimitri is clear that mindset matters most. A missing technical skill can be taught relatively easily, but as he puts it, “if someone is not fit for working in a startup environment, it will be very difficult to teach.” In the full episode, he talks with Charlie to share more on his career, how he approaches hiring and what it takes to build a high-performing team in the CDMO space. Watch
- We are hiring the Process Engineer who will own our next customer products, from the first technical call to the GMP batch. At White Raven we formulate and fill injectables for clinical-stage biotechs on gloveless robotic isolator, single-use, digital process. Every new product needs one person who owns its process end to end. That is this role. The job: process design, tech transfer, validation strategy, pFMEA, and being on the floor when the batch runs. You work every day with Manufacturing, Quality, Project Management and the
- I never planned to build a CDMO. I studied in Belgium, France, and Russia, and trained as an engineer in applied mathematics with a minor in entrepreneurship (thanks to the great work of Ineo UCLouvain). I ended up in the pharmaceutical industry almost by chance. I stayed because it brought together the things I enjoy most: complex problems, technology, and people pulling in the same direction. I spent years working on sterile manufacturing projects, facility construction, new product development, and technology transfers. Over
- Thank you Leonard Joseph for having our CEO, Dimitri Woronoff at the Blueprint podcast!🎙️ In this episode, Dimitri shares his journey from engineering to biotech and why we are closing the gap in small batch aseptic filling with a flexible CDMO model. The full episode is coming soon! In the meantime, come and meet him and the team at CPHI: 📍 Startup Zone, Hall H08, Booth 8S15. Follow us for more: White Raven
- Getting ready for the start of CPHI tomorrow. We look forward to seeing you at White Raven booth 8S15!
- The White Raven team has arrived at CPHI Milan 2026! 😎 Find us at the 📍 Startup Zone, Hall H08 - Booth 8S15! Our colleagues Dimitri Woronoff Ethel Vissers Johan Lambersens Laura Halley-Ollivier Grégory Goetghebuer Jeroen Mangelschots will be at the event and happy to meet you! And don't forget to follow us for more updates!
- So happy to see Pedro joining us as Head of Quality! 🎉 At MaSTherCell and then Catalent, he lived through the growth from a small CDMO startup to an established major player. That experience and his GMP expertise will be key in supporting our clients to bring innovative therapies faster to patients. 🚀 🚀 Welcome to White Raven, Pedro!
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