PBN 2023 Business Women Awards
ACHIEVEMENT HONOREE: Enith Morillo | Cadoret Global Inc. principal consultant
FROM THE TIME she was in her teens, Enith Morillo has faced down challenges and reinvented her life. As a high school junior in Venezuela, she applied to Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho, a national scholarship program that sent students to study abroad.
She came from humble beginnings and didn’t speak a word of English. Her father, a self-taught technician, had a sixth grade education, and she’d never thought she’d leave home. On the other hand, she was studious and loved math.
That determination has been an underpinning to her life story; she was the first person in her family to graduate college. Today, Morillo is the principal consultant of Cadoret Global Inc., a Cumberland company that supports pharmaceutical and biotech companies as they take drugs through clinical trials and on to the commercial market.
Cadoret Global supports startup, virtual, early-phase and small-size pharmaceutical companies through the arduous process of drug development and clinical trials while navigating regulatory requirements and ensuring overall product quality. The company’s consultants are spread across the U.S., Europe and Asia. The majority of their clients are domestic startups going through clinical trials for the first time, she says.
Much of Cadoret’s business is referral based, conducted on-site or virtually via videoconferencing, and the stakes are high. The vast majority of drugs that go through phase 1 tests fail to make it to market. Clients have been known to call as late as 11 p.m. or on weekends because of unexpected problems, and sometimes it means an unexpected trip to a manufacturer’s facility. “We want clients to trust our expertise, that we’ve been through these drug phases and trials before,” she said.
“I love on-site audits,” she added, “getting on a plane, meeting new people, seeing how compliance is approached by other cultures.”
Sandy Tremblay, Cadoret’s executive administrator, met Morillo through the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program two years ago. She was impressed with the example Morillo sets for minority and young women, that if you work hard enough and are determined, you can accomplish things.
“So much of what you see on TV is ‘Shark Tank,’ but you don’t need to have a product to pitch,” Tremblay said. “Enith coming here not knowing English, putting herself through school, finding a way to make it happen. There’s a message that if you want to make it happen, you’ll do it.”
