- Tom McKillop
Sir Thomas Fulton Wilson McKillop, born
March 19 ,1943 , is achemist , pharmaceutical company CEO and chairman ofRBS Group .McKillop was born in
Dreghorn , a small village near the town or Irvine inAyrshire and educated atIrvine Royal Academy and then Glasgow University, where he took a BSc Hons and PhD in Chemistry. He joined ICI's Corporate Research Laboratory atRuncorn in 1969 after post-doctoral research work in Paris. He moved to ICI Pharmaceuticals Division in 1975 and, having held a number of positions in Research, in 1989 he was appointed Technical Director of ICI Pharmaceuticals with international responsibility for research, development and production.In 1993, ICI Pharmaceuticals demerged to become Zeneca, and in 1994 he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the new company. In April 1999, Zeneca merged with Astra to form
AstraZeneca PLC and McKillop became Chief Executive of the merged company. He retired on the 1st January 2006, when David Brennan took over the role ofAstraZeneca CEO.McKillop is Chairman of the
Royal Bank of Scotland and a non-executive director of BP Plc, having been anon-executive director ofLloyds TSB Group plc from 1999-2004. He is also Chairman of theBritish Pharma Group , Pro-Chancellor of theUniversity of Leicester , Vice-President of theEuropean Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations and Chairman of theNorth West Science Council . He was awarded theSociety of Chemical Industry 's annual Centenary Medal in 2005. In January 2007 he took up the post of President of theScience Council .References
*cite web | title=Members of Northwest Science| url=http://www.northwestscience.co.uk/about/02_mckillop.asp | accessdate=Aug 9| accessyear=2005
*cite web | title=AstraZeneca | url=http://www.astrazeneca.com/pressrelease/4992.aspx| accessdate=Aug 9| accessyear=2005
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