Description
Sir Roger Jones OBE is a pharmacist, businessman and public servant of great note. In addition to his ground-breaking work in pharmaceutical innovation, he has been highly successful in his business dealings across three continents. He was a governor of the BBC, chairman of the Welsh Development Agency and chairman of the Training and Enterprise Council. He was also chair of the governing body of Swansea University and of a number of other public bodies.
In this eminently readable account of his life, Roger shows how he was motivated, despite a fairly modest background in Bala in North Wales, to achieve great heights in all his chosen fields. At the same time he gives us an engaging picture of a proud Welshman and family man with a passion for fishing and field sports.
Jon Gower –
A feisty, no-holds-barred account of the very full life its author – pharmacist, successful businessman and public servant. ‘We are all gunfighters to some extent because we exist in a competitive world, but if you are not a very good gunfighter you get killed.’
True to the analogy, Jones consistently shoots from the hip throughout an entertaining, feisty and disarmingly frank account of the world of commerce, Welsh civic life and his abiding love, fishing.