Steve Robertson graduated in Pharmacy from the Robert Gordon University in 1979. After becoming a member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society he worked within the hospital sector before joining the industry at Bard Laboratories in Aberdeen in 1981.

Working initially in product analysis, Steve was promoted to Section Head of BioAnalysis when he joined the Napp Research part of the Purdue Company and relocated to Cambridge in 1982. Steve spent the next four and a half years in Cambridge before accepting an appointment to come back to Scotland with Controlled Therapeutics to play a pivotal role in establishing the Company on a greenfield site in 1987.

Steve became a Chartered Chemist and member of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 1994.