Director, Boots Centre for Innovation, Institute for Life Science, Swansea University
Title: ‘A Magnet for Global Innovation’
How a £12 billion company addresses the challenge of encouraging global innovators and entrepreneurs to share their best and brightest ideas, with the promise of accessing almost 100,000 retail outlets around the world.
About the Speaker:
Ron Petersen is a co-founder of Longbow and is responsible for identifying new business opportunities and assisting their corporate development. Initially, Ron spent over 20 years with Armstrong World Industries, managing global businesses from a London base. In 1992, Ron began to specialise in turning underperforming or early stage companies into profitable and valued concerns. Companies he has been involved in this area include Insituform Group, Bridon, Brunel Holdings, and Oystertec. He is currently acting CEO of CyDen Ltd, a company for which Longbow arranged the equity finance. |
