Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> January 31, 2000
MARK TUCKER is presently the (acting) Managing Director at Stowic
Resources Limited. Mark Tucker graduated in geophysics in 1987. He has
experience in establishing businesses when he launched his own company
in the Arabian Gulf specialising in the location and identification of
resources hidden underground. At the start of the Gulf War he returned
to the UK as an industrial operations consultant and worked in a broad
range of industries. Mark also co-founded Stowic Resources Limited in
the early 1990's, a private transdermal pharmaceutical (TD) R&D company.
He subsequently joined Penn Pharmaceuticals Limited in Wales in 1995
where he assisted the Managing Director in restructuring the company. He
was responsible for and completed the installation of a GBP 2 million,
dedicated pharmaceutical manufacturing unit, that gained approval from
the FDA. He acts as the Secretary to the Welsh Medical Technology
Forum, a collection of over 140 healthcare companies in Wales, UK. In
1996, he co-founded E-STER Limited, an Electron Beam contract processing
company, which recently merged operations with Iotron Industries
(Canada) Inc. to provide Ebeam services to the UK medical industry from
2001. Mark has led substantive international licensing negotiations
with international pharmaceutical companies for Stowic's lead product
and overseen the filing of their planned first Abbreviated New Drug
Application in Q1 2000. Having re-structured the company to a 'Virtual'
operation, he has initiated several TD development programmes with
partner companies for New Chemical Entities. Mark has several patents
to his name, either granted or pending. Mark is married with two
children. Profile
then bring us up to date, as to what you see as the business and company
today.
Mr. Tucker: Stowic was founded about 12,
