Sandy Gray
Retired (formerly with Unilever)
 Where
do you work?
From home – as well as my involvement with SCI, I work
voluntarily with several other very different organisations.
What are your roles there?
My roles range from Vice-President of SCI, through Vice-Chairman
of a fund-raising charity, to Treasurer of a local decorative
and fine arts society. My last role in Unilever was as Vice-President,
Global Supply Chain, for Household Care Products.
Why did you join SCI?
I was an SCI member for a short time when I first joined Unilever
in the late 1960s. I rejoined in 2002 in the knowledge that
I would be retiring, and expecting that I would be able to
maintain my interests in a broad range of chemical industry,
and also contribute to the further development of SCI.
What is the best website you have visited lately?
The BBC website – I printed off the full series of the
recently broadcast 2005 Reith Lectures on ‘The Triumph
of Technology’.
What is your favourite holiday destination?
The southern African bush.
What would you like to have invented?
The process for the creation of malt whisky.
Who is your hero/heroine?
Captain James Cook
What is the best advice you have ever received?
Once you have taken a decision, don’t look back; just
implement it.
Which book would you recommend as a ‘must read’?
Captain James Cook: a Biography by Richard Hough.
What is your measure of success?
Peace of mind that I have done my best; preferably having
achieved the objectives I set myself.
With whom would you most like to spend an evening in serious
discussion?
Bill Gates
What is your motto in life?
Do to all men as I would have them do unto me.
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