Bill Wedlake joined NextPharma in July 2000 as Chief Financial Officer in the same year that it was founded. In 2003 he was appointed Chief Executive Officer and joined the Board of Directors. Bill who has contributed significantly to the growth and development of the NextPharma business is working closely with Franck to ensure a smooth transition process. The rest of the NextPharma executive management team remains unchanged.

David Finnigan of Sun European Partners, NextPharma?s shareholder commented “I am very grateful to Bill for his considerable contributions to NextPharma over the past eleven years and I wish him every success for the future”. Finnigan continued “NextPharma is in a tremendous position to extend its share of the outsourcing market and its Board of Directors is pleased to be able to appoint an executive with Frank?s experience and track record to lead NextPharma to its next stage of growth and development.

Franck Latrille joins NextPharma with a broad and deep experience of the global pharmaceutical industry, having most recently held executive board positions at Merck-Serono SA, including Deputy CEO and EVP Marketing and Sales. Previously at Serono SA he held executive board positions with responsibility for pharmaceutical manufacturing and product development operations. He holds a PhD in biochemistry and physiology.

NextPharma develops, manufactures, packages, and distributes a broad range of products and formulations for its customers from tablets and capsules to antibiotics, hormones, steriles and controlled release medicines. It has an established leadership position in the high technology area of injectables manufacturing, with particular expertise in product development and manufacture of oncology medicines.

NextPharma has recently been acquired by Sun European Partners with a view to leveraging NextPharma?s strong track record, reputation and state of the art facilities, to grow the business both organically and by acquisition.

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NextPharma Technologies, headquartered in the UK and founded in 2000, is a world class outsourcing partner to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry.

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