Katheryn Shea
Vice President & Chief Client Solution Officer Azenta Life Sciences
Katheryn Shea is the Chief Client Solution Officer at Azenta Life Sciences, bringing more than 30 years of experience in operations and strategic consulting. She is a global leader in the design and optimization of repositories, quality systems, and cold storage infrastructure. She focuses on helping pharmaceutical companies, government agencies, and research institutions implement best practices, standards, and effective change management strategies to improve the efficiency and integrity of their cold storage operations.
Katheryn has held several leadership roles, including eight years on the Board of Directors for ISBER, where she served as Director, Secretary-Treasurer, and President. She served on the advisory working group that developed of the College of American Pathologists (CAP) accreditation program for biorepositories and served as Principal Investigator for multiple NIH-funded extramural repositories.
Seminars
Accelerating Breakthroughs Through Strategic Cold Storage Design: Uniting Operations, Asset Management, & Facilities Expertise
Reimagine Cold Storage as Strategic Research Infrastructure
- Learn how leading research organizations are moving beyond traditional “freezer farms” to build scalable, resilient, and sustainable storage environments that support scientific growth, operational excellence, and long-term facility planning.
Optimize Space, Assets, & Operations
- Discover practical strategies for improving storage utilization, increasing inventory visibility, reducing operational risk, and reclaiming valuable laboratory space through modern sample management practices and digital workflows.
See Innovation in Action
- Explore how AI-enabled sample registration, repository operations, and automated cold storage systems work together to improve efficiency, sustainability, and sample stewardship during an exclusive tour of Azenta’s Billerica biorepository facility.
- Expose the hidden facility impact of cold storage: learn how fragmented inventories, underutilized equipment, and limited visibility contribute to unnecessary space, energy, maintenance, and operating costs across the research environment
- Use data to right-size the cold storage footprint: explore how facility assessments, asset inventories, utilization data, and inventory rationalization can inform consolidation decisions, reduce freezer demand, and reclaim valuable space for science
- Build an infrastructure strategy that scales with research: see how improved tracking, shared resource models, automated high-density storage, and intentional placement of materials across the lab, centralized facilities, and off-site repositories can support long-term capacity, resiliency, and sustainability goals
