Dr S Abidi
Chair Board of Directors
Dr Abidi has over 30 years of experience in pharmaceutical formulation development. He is founder and President of Pharmaceutics International Incorporated (Pii) based in US. He has extensive experience in dosage form development including capsules, tablets, modified release tablets, suspensions, solutions, small volume parenterals, suppositories, creams, ointments, gels, inhalation aerosols and transdermals. In the span of his career he has been involved with pre and post approval regulatory inspections and has worked on scale-up and launch of major pharmaceutical products, both prescription and OTC.
Dr Q. Nawaz
Director of Quality Assurance
Dr Nawaz is a Pharmacist by training and has a PhD in Drug Delivery Systems from Aston University. He is currently the Head of Quality Assurance and Technical Affairs at Sterling Pharmaceuticals Ltd, a manufacturing company based in Birmingham which is licensed to manufacture pharmaceutical products (MIA/MS/WL 32515). He is a trainee QP and has completed several QP modules with David Begg Associates, RSSL and Pharmaceutical Training Institute. He is a member of Royal Pharmaceutical Society, Royal Society of Chemistry and TOPRA.
Dr Shahid Raza
Director of Operations
Dr. Raza has 30 years of experience within the Pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors. During his career he has been involved in R&D, clinical and commercial functions at senior levels He has been involved with product development and has a played a key role in launch of products in markets. Dr. Raza has moved through the executive ladder working for GlaxoSmithKline and Roche and has served in senior positions for both companies.Within GSK as Director of Clinical Development and Medical Affairs Africa and the Middle East, he was involved R&D and was also part of the commercial team responsible for launch of key GSK products. In the recent past he has served as Chief Operating Officer of Pharmaterials Ltd where he was responsible for running the company.
Amar Nawaz
Director of Sales and Marketing
Amar Nawaz has an extensive background experience in the pharmaceutical industry and for the last 20 years his main focus has been on manufacturing, retail and wholesale marketing, pharmacovigilance and operations. He is an entrepreneur and has been involved with setting up and running two successful pharmaceutical business in the UK
Dr. James Robert Murray
Mentor
Dr. Jim Murray has 40 years world-wide experience in the Pharmaceutical Industry, including 15 years with Gist-Brocades (now Astellas, Europe) in the Netherlands, Belgium and the UK. Positions held included Head of International Clinical Research, Head of Strategic Planning, Director of International Scientific Affairs, Director of Licensing, Medical Director for UK (with Board position), Belgium and Australia.
Alfred F. Spinnler
Senior Adviser
Senior executive with extensive experience of healthcare having worked in high profile roles for Roche Basle and has managed special projects and countries with a number of major and significant achievements. He has also served as Head of Market Research and Sales support for UK and other export markets for the Roche HQ in Basle. He had direct marketing responsibility for Scandinavian markets. He reorganised Marketing and Sales for Denmark, while based in Copenhagen and has managed Sales and Product Management teams for Scandinavian markets. He also served as the Area Manager for UK and Germany. He made a major contribution in:
Phil Tomlinson
Director of Partnerships
Phil Tomlinson has worked within the pharmaceutical industry for over 26 years starting his career with Janssen Cilag and moving to SmithKline Beecham vaccines before moving into the contract sales service arena with Innovex (now Quintiles).