The Directors

With 40 years’ experience in pharmacy, Salim is Avicenna’s CEO. He was one of the founding Directors of the business and has previously held the position of Chairman. Salim has many other business interests and owns a busy high street pharmacy in which he still works one day a week. He has undertaken a management course at Imperial College, London and has an intermediate level qualification in professional accountancy. He was honoured a Fellow of Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) in 2012 followed by Faculty Fellow of RPS. He was awarded the Editor’s Award by Pharmacy Business in recognition of his achievements with Avicenna. He has been on many judging panels for industry awards and is still an active member of his Local LPC. Charity work is another interest and he has organised large charitable walks for Great Ormond Street Hospital and Cancer Research. In his spare time Salim likes to Ski with his family in the Alps.

In this time he set up a transformation function to lead the organisation through a period of significant change.
Nick has extensive experience in creating, implementing and overseeing performance improvement strategies that have delivered significant value to the brand, pharmacy mangers and the local community

Starting his financial training at Nestle he later became European Finance Director for the Merrell and Saucony footwear brands and was more recently heading up the Finance team at Hotter Shoes. He has overseen strategy development, international expansion, transformational change, financial restructuring and refinancing activities.