Roger Jones

Education

He was educated at Bala Boys" Grammar School and the Welsh School of Pharmacy, Cardiff. After his B.Pharm he completed his professional qualifications and went to Bradford Management School, where he gained his Master of Science .

Career

Sir Roger Jones Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire FLSW He joined The Wellcome Foundation and worked in Consumer Products Marketing before taking up a line management job in Wellcome Nigeria. He then continued in line management in a regional capacity in West Africa and the Middle East. He then became responsible for Eastern Europe and the Communist Bloc where he became versed in technology transfer.

He left Wellcome in 1982 to establish his own Contract Development company, Penn Pharmaceuticals Limited, which became one of the leading international companies in this field

This he sold to the management team in 1999. He realised the importance of staff training at the leading edge of technology and became active in the Training and Enterprise Councils and was Chairman of Gwent Training and Enterprise Council and later Training and Enterprise Council Southeast Wales.

He was also appointed to be one of the Governors of the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1996. He was appointed Chairman of the Welsh Development Agency (2002-2006).

Pro Chancellor and Chair of Swansea University (2005 - ) Trustee of the Botanic Garden of Wales Chairman of Carmarthenshire Heritage Trust Trustee of Carmarthenshire Rivers Trust President of Young Men’s Christian Association in Wales Chairman of the National Trust Committee for Wales Governor of Christ College, Brecon British Association for Shooting and Conservation, Council Member Nature conservation.

The countryside. Shooting and salmon fishing. Club: The Athenaeum.

Achievements

• With but little access to capital funding, he recognised the need for Contract Development in the pharmaceutical industry and was instrumental in bringing seventeen molecules into clinical use on behalf of clients. His unpublished work on thalidomide and his understanding of the effects of polymorphic variation on bioavailability assisted Cellgene"s development of the molecule. He was the developer of high specification activated charcoal for the treatment of acute poisoning by establishing an intestinal dialysis using the gut wall as a semipermeable membrane. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society in 2009, and he became a "Qualified Person" under European Economic Community regulations in 1991. He has established several successful life science companies including ZooBiotic Limited and Phytovation Limited. He received an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1996 and was Knighted in 2005.He received an honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Wales Cardiff in 2000. Sir Roger is a Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales and in July 2010 he was appointed as its inaugural Treasurer.

Membership

He was then appointed Marketing Planning Manager and was a member of the corporate R&Doctorate committees.