Who makes Pharma Lectures

Two people who have sat on both sides of a GDP inspection.

A wholesaler owner who buys training as a cost that has to survive an audit, and the pharmacist who built the distribution centre that gets audited.

Ben Racz

Co-founder. Professor of the Practice, Carnegie Mellon University. Owner of a licensed pharmaceutical wholesaler in the European Union.

Ben holds the academic title of Professor of the Practice at the College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, where he teaches Advanced Quantitative Finance and Algorithmic Trading to MSc students.

He is the founder and Managing Director of Algorithmic Sciences, a scientific research and consulting firm. Earlier he co-founded a data-driven business growth consultancy, a data-science based wholesale trading company and an information security consulting firm.

He also owns a licensed pharmaceutical wholesaler in the European Union, so he pays for GMP and GDP training the same way you do and reads the same inspection reports.

More about Ben at benracz.com

Justina Krukonytė-Racz

Co-founder. Licensed pharmacist. Board member of the Lithuanian Pharmaceutical Union.

Justina is a licensed pharmacist and sits on the board of the Lithuanian Pharmaceutical Union (Lietuvos farmacijos sąjunga), where she chairs its IT and student-communication commission.

She was responsible for creating the entire GDP-compliant distribution centre, logistics and warehouse infrastructure for Tamro, part of the PHOENIX group.

Lithuania's medicines agency register lists her as Tamro's Responsible Person for wholesale distribution since February 2021. It also lists her for Tamro's second site from January to August 2023.

Lithuanian Pharmaceutical Union board page (photo source)

Why it matters for your training

The PHOENIX group describes itself as the European leader in pharmaceutical wholesale, pharmacy retail and services for the pharmaceutical industry, with 204 wholesale and pre-wholesale sites in 29 countries, over 48,000 employees and a total operating performance of 66.9 billion euros in fiscal year 2025/26.¹ Tamro Lithuania and its sister companies in Estonia and Latvia form the Tamro Baltics Group, which PHOENIX describes as the largest pharmaceutical wholesaler in the Baltic States.²

From the buyer's side of the table: a wholesaler owner knows that a course is only worth paying for if the certificate and the training record hold up when the inspector asks for them. From the warehouse floor: the person who built a GDP distribution centre for a group that size knows which procedure the auditor opens first, and writes the module around it.

Sources

PHOENIX group, About us (figures as published, retrieved October 2026)
PHOENIX group, Across Europe: Lithuania
Lietuvos farmacijos sąjunga, LFS Valdyba (board)
State Medicines Control Agency of Lithuania, wholesale distribution licence 0057, site 1 and site 2
benracz.com and Carnegie Mellon University scholars directory

Two people who have sat on both sides of a GDP inspection.

Ben Racz

Justina Krukonytė-Racz

Why it matters for your training

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