Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> July 3, 2000
JEFF HARRIS is the Chief Executive Officer of Alliance UniChem Plc. He
studied Zoology at Southampton University and then in 1970, he joined a
leading London accountancy firm, which subsequently merged to become
Ernst & Young. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1973 and was
offered a fellowship in 1978. In 1980, he moved to Spicer & Pegler, now
Deloitte & Touche, where amongst his clients he worked with the UniChem
co-operative. In 1985, Mr Harris joined UniChem as Chief Accountant, and
was appointed to the Board as Finance Director in 1986, serving in this
capacity through UniChems transformation in 1990 from a co-operative to
a Public Listed Company. He took over as Chief Executive of UniChem in
1992, having been appointed Deputy Chief Executive in 1991 in
preparation for the retirement of the then CEO, Peter Dodd. In addition
to his role as Chief Executive Officer of Alliance UniChem, Mr Harris is
a past Chairman of the British Association of Pharmaceutical
Wholesalers, the founding Chairman of IPSO (the international
pharmaceutical marketing and distribution consortium), and is a Board
Member of ANZAG, the German pharmaceutical wholesaling business. He is
married with two children and lives in South West London, close to the
head offices of Alliance UniChem. Profile
Mr. Harris: The origins go back to the first half of the last century
when two large groups essentially began to emerge from
