Dr. Gillings began performing biostatical analysis work for pharmaceutical companies with a single project in 1974 while still a professor of biostatistics at the
Quintiles was incorporated as a privately held company in 1982, and over the past 33 years, has grown from that small collection of statisticians and college students into the world's largest provider of biopharmaceutical services, a FORTUNE 500 company with nearly 35,000 employees conducting business in 100 countries.
Dr. Gillings took Quintiles public through its first Initial Public Offering (IPO) in 1994, and then led a leveraged buyout to take the company private again in 2003. Quintiles remained a private company for 10 years until its second IPO in 2013. Gillings served as Quintiles CEO for nearly all of the company's first 30 years of operation until current CEO
During Dr. Gillings' tenure with the company, Quintiles began its international expansion in 1987 and moved into clinical drug development in 1988 and commercialization services in 1996. Just 16 years after incorporation, Quintiles recorded more than
"Quintiles grew very quickly and consistently from its beginnings in 1982," Gillings remarked. "It has been a memorable ride to get to our multi-billion dollar status today, and I feel privileged to have led this journey. However, I believe there is so much more to come," he continued. "I wish Tom and our management team great success navigating our next era of opportunities so that patients are able to access fast-moving medical advances more easily, timely and cost effectively. Thank you, employees for making all this possible."
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"Dennis recognized that a company such as Quintiles could become a true partner with its biopharmaceutical customers rather than a task manager, and provide a plethora of value-added services from product development and commercialization to advisory, regulatory and real-world, late phase services. We are proud to have him as our founder, and will continue to seek his guidance as he continues his work with the Quintiles Board," Pike concluded.
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