Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> September 14, 2001

Walter Nimmo – Inveresk Research International

WALTER NIMMO, President and CEO of Inveresk Research Group, Inc., is a medical graduate of the University of Edinburgh. He worked in various universities in clinical pharmacology and anaesthesia. In 1988 he was the founding Managing Director of Inveresk Clinical Research and since 1996, the Chief Executive of the Inveresk Research group of companies. This group provides high quality preclinical and clinical research services to the pharmaceutical industry and other industries worldwide. In June 2002, the Inveresk Research Group became a public company. It now employs 2,800 staff in 14 countries. Profile
TWST: Could we begin with a brief historical sketch of Inveresk Research

International and an overview of things as they are now?

Dr. Nimmo: Inveresk Research International began in 1946, in a