Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> September 14, 2001
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 ResearchInternational and an overview of things as they are now?
Dr. Nimmo: Inveresk Research International began in 1946, in a