Eric W. Smart
Vice President, Marketing & Business Development
Eric
Smart has over 15 years of sales, sales management, marketing and project
management in the pharmaceutical contract research and contract manufacturing
industries. He held positions at AMRI, Organichem Corporation, AlliedSignal and
Albemarle Corporation.
Smart was a co-founder of Organichem Corporation
in 1999 and was a member of the management team that organized the management
buyout that formed Organichem. As VP of Business Development he played a key
role in realizing the company’s financial milestones that led to a successful
sale of the business to AMRI in 2002.
Smart holds a BS degree in chemistry from
Vanderbilt University and an MBA from the University of Maryland. Prior to
entering the pharmaceutical industry, Mr. Smart served eight years as an
officer in the US Navy.