Dr Rabinder Buttar, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, ClinTec International, has won ‘Female Entrepreneur of the Year’ award at the Scottish Business Awards 2013 held recently at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre. The awards, which are the largest and most prestigious of their kind in the UK, were attended by dignitaries such as President Bill Clinton, Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond, and representatives from 1600 businesses.
Buttar said, “Winning this award is a great recognition of the work the team and I do in supporting the pharmaceutical industry in developing novel medicines for the treatment of major diseases such as cancer and diabetes. As a company, ClinTec has grown substantially since it was founded in 1997, and it is always an honour to win awards such as this. I feel it reflects the work we do and the achievements that we have generated to date from management right through to the work delivered on the ground for our international clients.”
The winning of the award by Buttar marks an important week for ClinTec, which concludes with exhibiting at the 49th Annual DIA Meeting in Boston. The conference, the largest of its kind in the pharma industry, is being used by the company to formally launch its Masters in International Clinical Research and Technology to the American market, as well as highlighting the company’s new full service offering for the MENA region.
As the founder of ClinTec International, Buttar has seen her clinical research organisation expand into over 40 countries in the space of 17 years, and the company is now ranked as one of the eminent CROs in a variety of key markets across the globe, including the burgeoning Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region. The company, which is a majority woman-owned business, was founded by Buttar in 1997, and can now count ten of the world’s top pharma companies as clients, as well as having a diverse and multicultural workforce which holds key staff in 43 countries worldwide.
EP News Bureau – Mumbai