25th July Summer Networking and Barbecue featuring a talk by serial entrepreneur Louise Grubb of Q1 Scientific

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Summer Barbecue Networking Event

Featuring a talk by serial entrepreneur Louise Grubb, Q1 Scientific

Date: Monday 25th July 2016

Time: 18.45-21.00

Venue: The Glasshouse, House Venue, 27 Lower Leeson Street

Our July event is a special event to bring together our members in one of Dublin’s most beautiful venues for a summery social evening.   Our Guest speaker, is a very successful entrepreneur Louise Grubb founded, built and sold, Nutriscience, an animal nutrition company and she is now on her second successful enterprise, a pharmaceutical storage firm called Q1 Scientific – and is setting up a third called Trivium Vet. She has also been nominated for the EY Entrepreneur of the Year award for 2016.  Louise will tell her story so far and will talk about how she overcame challenges and what tips she would share with other women in business.

This event is open to members of the network only and places are limited.  For more information, please email Pauline Logan at leodcwomeninbusiness@gmail.com  .

The talk will be followed by a barbecue and networking.
 
 
Speaker Overview: Louise Grubb, Q1 Scientific
Louise Grubb is the CEO and Founder of Q1 Scientific which was launched in September 2012 to
provide a world-class Environmentally Controlled storage facility servicing the Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences industries. Located in her native Waterford, it is the first Irish company to specialise in the provision of a Stability Storage service and meets the highest-international standards, as required for these highly-regulated industries. Plans for 2016 involve building further capacity at the Waterford plant and further expansion into the European markets.

Prior to Q1 Scientific, Louise was the Founder and Managing Director of Nutri Science Ltd, a
company developing and manufacturing nutraceuticals for the veterinary healthcare market.
Established in 2000, Nutri Science was a former winner of the Irish Exporters Award with exports throughout Europe before being acquired by a Belgian pharmaceutical company in 2009.

Louise holds honours BSc in Nutrition & Dietetics, a Master’s Degree in Business Studies
(International Marketing) and is a graduate of the Irish Marketing Institute.

As well as her own business ventures, Louise is involved as an adviser to start-up companies on
business development and marketing, developed the Irish Business Role Models teaching program for 3rd level education in association with Enterprise Ireland and is a former member of the Board of the Irish Exporters Association.

In 2016 Louise is a finalist in the EY Entrepreneur of the Year.

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