Jim Rennie has over 30 year’s industrial pharmacy/consultancy experience in both large Pharma at Marian Merrell Dow and Procter and Gamble then as a co-founder of Prova a highly respected contract development organisation.
During Jim’s career he has gained hands-on experience of many formulation-related activities including:
- Pre-formulation
- Development Pharmaceutics
- Formulation development / drug delivery
- Technology transfer and scale-up
- CMC regulatory preparation and review, Expert Reports and Quality Overall Summaries
- Stability studies
- Pharmaceutical analysis
- General management
These activities have been performed on a diverse range of projects including:
- Oral solid dose
- Semi-solid and liquid topical
- Injectables including co-solvent and lyophilised

Career Summary
Jim Rennie BPharm, MSc.
2008-date Founder and Managing Director of Eviva Pharma Ltd. Consultancy
1990-2008 Founder and Chief Operating Officer, Prova (R&D) Ltd (including Prova Analytical Consultancy and Rennie Pharmaceutical Consultancy). Latterly Operations Director Bodycote Prova.
1988-1990 Head of Respiratory Development, Procter and Gamble
1984-1988 Senior Scientist, Marian Merrell Dow
1981-1984 Staff Pharmacist Manufacturing, West Middlesex University Hospital
1980-1981 Basic Grade Pharmacist, Lewisham Hospital
1979-1980 Post Graduate Research in Medicinal Chemistry at Chelsea College
1978-1979 Sterile Production Manager, CAPS (Zimbabwe)
1977-1978 Pre-registration Pharmacist Westminster Hospital
A full curriculum vitae is available on request at jim@evivapharma.com