Richard Scaife

Richard worked as an Intensive Care Units Nurse in the UK and Saudi Arabia, before managing a Medical Centre for British Aerospace at a Saudi Arabian airbase. On returning to the UK in 1990, he joined Ciba-Geigy in Pharma sales roles, followed by Sales Management and ultimately CNS portfolio Brand Management. He moved to the CRO sector in 1997 with Covance, then Fisher in Health Economics/Reimbursement and Marketing roles respectively, then setting up a BD and Proposals unit at Quintiles before joining Daiichi-Sankyo in 2005. The subsequent ten years in clinical development outsourcing (moving to Mitsubishi Pharma’s London office in 2009) have included global and EU outsourcing responsibilities ranging from creating a new outsourcing function, to negotiating global CRO agreements and setting up global oversight structure and processes to build long-term, effective, CRO working relationships, working closely with colleagues in Japan and US offices as Global Outsourcing Lead. Joining the Pharmaceutical Contract Management Group (PCMG) industry association in 2006, Richard’s commitment to driving and sharing best practice in Clinical Development Outsourcing was further demonstrated by his role as PCMG Committee Chairman since 2012. In the remaining time available, his other interests include fast bikes, (warm weather) SCUBA diving and learning to sail!