Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> March 29, 1999

Jack Rowell – Celsis International Plc (cel.l)

Dr. JACK ROWELL was educated at Oxford reading politics, philosophy and economics. He qualified as a chartered accountant, became a Fellow of the Institution of Chartered Accountants and later was made an Honorary Doctor of Law from Bath. Jack Rowell moved out of the accountancy profession into Procter & Gamble as a career development move to work in industrial financial management for an organisation which offered tremendous opportunity for professional growth and development. He moved to Lucas as finance director, and later became Chief Executive of Lucas, part of the Dalgety group. Jack Rowell then became Chief Executive of Golden Wonder (another part of Dalgety group) then on to the board as Director of Dalgety plc with responsibility for the Consumer Foods Division. Since then he has become Chairman of 5 companies and is currently Chief Executive of Celsis International plc. Profile
TWST: I'll start off by asking you to give me a brief overview of Celsis

International.

Mr. Rowell: Celsis is a market leader in supplying microbial testing

risk management and quality