Christoph Lebl
Genentech, Inc.

Christoph Lebl’s career in the Instrumentation/Process Control field started 1980 when he signed up for the 3½ apprenticeship program with Bayer AG to become a certified Instrumentation and Control Technician. He graduated from college in 1990 with Bachelors degrees in Electrical Engineering.
Christoph worked at Bayer AG in Wuppertal / Germany from 1980 until 2003. In 1999 he moved with his family to Clayton NC as engineering lead for instrumentation and control of a grass-root manufacturing facility for the biotech business. Two years after returning from Clayton NC, he moved back to the United States to work for IDEC Pharmaceuticals as engineering lead for instrumentation and control of a grass-root project on one of the largest biotech manufacturing facilities in the US. In 2003 Biogen and IDEC merged to become BiogenIDEC and in 2005 this facility was sold to Genentech Inc.  Christoph lives in Oceanside CA, with his wife Barbara and his children Maximilian and Charlotte.  He likes to play golf and has a passion for working with wood.