Clinical technology company Clinphone has been named as the 'company of tomorrow' in this year's Royal Bank of Scotland Sunday Times Business Awards
Clinical technology company Clinphone has been named as the 'company of tomorrow' in this year's Royal Bank of Scotland Sunday Times Business Awards.
The awards recognise the contribution that business makes to British society.
They are awarded annually and are open to UK companies with a turnover of £1m or more.
The 12 finalists were judged on the business leadership qualities they used in achieving results for wealth and employment creation.
ClinPhone is in good company as a winner of the award.
Previous winners include Arm Holdings and Canary Wharf Group.
Neil Rotherham and Jonathan Engler founded Clinphone in 1993.
The company provides clinical trial management solutions, using unique telephone and web-based systems.
These solutions are designed to increase efficiency in the drug development business and accelerate the process of bringing new drugs to the market.
The company employs more than 330 people worldwide with offices in Chicago, Princeton and Palo Alto in America, in addition to European offices in Brussels and Germany supporting its Nottingham headquarters.
The 'company of tomorrow' award is given to an enterprise which the judges believe has grown rapidly and shows potential for generating even more wealth and employment.
Peter Herbert, professor at Henley Management College, assessed each of the short listed finalists for this year's awards, a list including Carphone Warehouse, Easyjet, Dabs, and Wagamama.
He enthused about Clinphone: "Rotherham and Engler, two entrepreneurial young turks with complementary talents - people and systems - spotted the opportunity and went for it." The company has cornered a niche in the market.
Until Clinphone arrived, pharmaceutical companies struggled to control their trials because they did not have access to a sufficient global IT infrastructure in the hospital sites and surgeries where the tests were happening.
The company now takes data from over 80 countries worldwide and uses a communications system that can handle over 70 languages.
With a blue-chip client base in the pharmaceutical industry, the company continues to grow rapidly as its sponsors work hard to develop more drugs and harness technology solutions to gain efficiencies of cost and resources.
This latest award adds to a roll of honour in 2002 which saw the company also pick up two Queen's Awards for Enterprise Innovation and International Trade, the Sage Business Award for Best Growth through Technology and the CBI's Company of the Year in its Growing Business Awards. Jonathan Engler said, "This is a massive level of recognition for the company.
We were short listed with a number of the country's top firms and to be recognised by the judges, as the 'company of tomorrow' is a great achievement.
Our level of recent growth has been testament to the efforts of the staff and we look forward to continued success." Rupert Boddington, regional director, corporate banking for The Royal Bank of Scotland in the East Midlands added, "I am personally delighted that a local firm has won such a prestigious award and we congratulate Neil and Jonathan and all the team at ClinPhone."
