About Us

East Coast Validation Services, LLC was started in July of 2005 by Rich Yeaton in Derry, New Hampshire. ECVS exists to provide high quality, cost effective Validation, Commissioning and Project Management services to the Biotech and Pharmaceutical industry.

People in the Biotech and Pharmaceutical field know that it is a tightly knit community, where everyone seems to know everyone else and people keep track of each other. Prior to starting ECVS, Rich Yeaton spent ten years establishing and growing Phoenix Imperative Inc, first in Newark, Delaware and then out of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. ECVS is dedicated to developing and growing professional relationships in the Biotech and Pharmaceutical field. Following are some of the clients we have worked with over the years:

Company Name Location Projects
Lonza Biologics Portsmouth, NH Validation Master Planning, equipment and utility commissioning and validation
EMD Pharmaceuticals Billerica, MA Facility Startup and Commissioning, equipment and utility validation
Wyeth Vaccines Pearl River, NY Compliance review, equipment and utility validation, cycle development
Bristol-Myers Squibb Syracuse, NY and Wallingford, CT Equipment validation, sterility expiry validation, HVAC commissioning, decontamination execution and qualification
Wyeth BioPharm Andover, MA Equipment and utility validation, shutdown management, cleaning validation, SIP validation, Project Management
FMC Biopolymers Rockland ME and Newark, DE Cleaning validation, equipment and utility validation, process validation
Amgen (formerly Immunex) West Greenwich, RI Facility startup, cleaning validation
Schering-Plough Kenilworth, NJ Equipment validation
Glaxo-Smithkline Conshohocken, PA Equipment validation, cleaning validation, sterilization validation
Merck and Co. West Point, PA Equipment and utility validation, cleaning validation
Cel-Sci, Inc Baltimore, MD Equipment and utility validation, sterilization validation
Siegfried Group (formerly Ganes Pharmaceuticals) Pennsville, NJ Equipment and utility validation, cleaning validation, process validation
Bard BioPharm (formerly Cytogen Co.) Princeton, NJ Equipment validation, cleaning validation
MedImmune, Inc Gaithersburg, MD and Frederick, MD Facility startup and commissioning, equipment and utility validation, sterilization validation, cleaning validation, process validation

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