Dr Doug Cleverley

Dr Doug Cleverly is Founder and Managing Director of Argenta, the world’s first contract research and manufacturing organisation dedicated to animal health. Specialising in providing new product development and manufacturing services to the international animal health industry, Argenta exports products and services to over 59 countries and has an estimated global market share of nearly 10%, and growing.

Argenta made the Deloitte list of the 50 fastest growing companies in New Zealand in 2009 and won the Enterprising Manukau Excellence in Exporting Award the same year. In 2010, it was named the NZBIO Emerging Company of the Year.

In addition, Dr Doug has won the 2011 EY Entrepreneur of the Year and was named a finalist for the KPMG Outstanding International Business Leader in the 2013 New Zealand International Business Awards.