Daniel A. Davis

Senior Associate

Dan Davis serves as a Senior Associate at JB&B, with a primary focus on life science process engineering, and is an office leader in the Philadelphia office. Since joining the firm in 2022, he has been a driver in the firm’s growth in the life sciences industry. He has led the process utility efforts for a cell and gene therapy (CGT) contract development and manufacturing company (CDMO) multi-facility project. In addition to process engineering, he was the project manager for projects that included cGMP plasmid facilities, cGMP microneedle facility, iPSC labs, PCR labs, and semiconductor telecommunication labs. His strength in project management has led him to execute a nine-month design-build data center project in four greenfield buildings, at 52,000 sq.ft. each. Mr. Davis has supported previous clients by advising on the tech transfer of a vaccine facility. Prior to joining JB&B, his experience included being a lead and project engineer as an owner’s representative for a greenfield $400M vaccine manufacturing plant, followed by a retrofit of an existing GMP bacterial vaccine plant to a recombinant protein vaccine manufacturing plant utilizing both single-use and stainless steel equipment.

Mr. Davis brings to the firm a unique perspective, having experience both from the design firm side as an engineer and from the owner’s side as an owner’s representative, and has first-hand experience on how design decisions can impact a GMP/GLP facility down the road. This includes how these decisions follow through construction, start-up, commissioning and qualification (C&Q), validation, and operation. In addition to vaccine facilities, he has worked on a continuous manufacturing line for an OSD CMO, and he engineered the support systems for a flexible filling line that won an ISPE FOYA in 2017. Outside of manufacturing, his system ownership has included an entire laboratory process and layout that encompassed areas of analytical sciences, quality assurance, upstream, downstream, and molecular biology for pDNA, transfection, and development.

Mr. Davis earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Drexel University. He is engaged in the education community, providing support as a guest industry panelist for student presentations at Howard University and Villanova University.