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The Non-Linear Path to Quality Leadership, with Cinta Burgos
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- Let's Talk Quality
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- Apr 28, 2026
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Summary
The non-linear path is often the most powerful one. Cinta Burgos on Building a Career Across Functions, Modalities, and Mindsets. In today's episode I was joined by Cinta Burgos, Senior Vice President of Quality and Regulatory CMC at New Amsterdam Pharma. I really wanted to speak to Cinta because her career does not follow the path you might expect for someone at SVP level. She has moved across pharma, medical devices, and biologics, held roles in quality engineering, validation, regulatory, and consulting, and built her executive presence not through a linear climb but through curiosity, flexibility, and a willingness to take opportunities as they came. Cinta's journey began with a biophysics degree, a near-completed master's in mechanical engineering, and early laboratory work on human growth factors and the varicella zoster vaccine. Life changed direction more than once - moving across the country, starting a family, building a consulting practice that spanned 17 years - and through each transition, she added a new dimension to her expertise. Today she leads quality assurance, quality control, quality systems, and CMC regulatory at a company she describes as scientifically driven, ethically led, and genuinely exciting. What stands out about Cinta is her philosophy of leadership. She talks about moving from task-oriented thinking to big-picture ownership, about not micromanaging the talented people around you, and about the importance of keeping a personal board of directors - mentors you check in with at different stages of your career. She is also candid about the moments where she did not immediately see an opportunity for what it was, and honest about what that taught her. We talk about the following: - How a biophysics background and an unfinished master's becam…