Cerulean is an award-winning, independent consultancy founded by FDA lean compliance expert, author & speaker John Avellanet.
Mr. Avellanet helps clients solve compliance problems. Pharmaceutical, medical device, and biotech executives increase the effectiveness of their FDA regulatory compliance, quality management, IT, records control, and new medicine development programs. The result? Better business flexibility, a better bottom line & better compliance.
Cerulean clients turn compliance into a competitive advantage
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- About our founder and managing director, John Avellanet
Our company name comes from the color “cerulean” (suh • roo • lee • uhn) blue – from the Latin caelum or caeruleaum meaning sky or heavens. Our logo is a stylized version of the medieval Japanese symbol knows as the “spiral of potential energy.”
Cerulean is headquartered in the US in Williamsburg, Virginia, south of Washington, D.C.

