Commerce
Until 2001, Sir Richard Sykes was chairman of GlaxoSmithKline and president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1994, he was knighted for his services to the pharmaceutical industry and in 1999 he was awarded the Singapore National Day Public Service Star Award for his services to the economy of Singapore. In December 2007 he was appointed Independent Non-Executive Director at Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC). In October 2008, Sykes accepted Farad Azima's invitation to join the NetScientific Group as the non-executive Chairman. In 2009, Sykes accepted the position as executive chairman of Toumaz Technology Ltd.
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Famous quotes containing the word commerce:
“I leave you, home,
when I’m ripped from the doorstep
by commerce or fate. Then I submit
to the awful subway of the world....”
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