Entrepreneur Fiona shares secrets of success
by WIN Admin — published in Press Releases
MULTI-MILLIONAIRE entrepreneur Fiona Cruickshank, who picked up her OBE at Buckingham Palace yesterday, will be sharing the secrets of her success at Newcastle Business School next week.
Cruickshank, who co-founded Prudhoe-based drugs firm the Specials Laboratory, will be speaking as a guest of Caroline Theobald in her regular “In Conversation With” series.
The entrepreneur used some of the proceeds from the £20m-plus sale of the Specials Lab to generate momentum for a second venture SCM Pharma.
Established as a clinical trials manufacturing facility for big pharmaceutical companies SCM has since moved into commercial manufacturing and product testing and recently opened a US office.
Theobald, managing director of the Newcastle-based Bridge Club said: “If you want to know why Fiona established SCM, the characteristics that have prompted her to invest in a second business having sold the first, why she chose to work in a strategic rather than operational role, the dynamic between two of the region’s most innovative business women, the importance of educating the next generation of scientists, the enthusiasm that is being invested in SCM regionally, nationally and internationally this conversation is a must!”
The event is at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, at 6pm on December 2. For information, tel: 0191 230 5742