Ron Lawrence BSc (Hons), PhD, FRSC is the Managing Director of RML Pharma Consulting and Managing Partner at Cerebro CMC. With a PhD in synthetic organic chemistry from Monash University in Australia, followed by postdoctoral studies in the UK he later joined GlaxoSmithKline in the Chemical Development department at Stevenage, UK. He moved into the outsourced projects group at GSK in 2004 in a Scientific Manager role where he managed multiple early phase outsourced projects at contract manufacturers. He left GSK in 2009 to set up RML Pharma Consulting and now helps small/virtual biotech companies like Actimed to deliver strong technical CMC packages. Ron is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.