Pharma Prescribed with Duncan Kemp, Founder of Saltware Solutions; Crafting Success: From Redundancy to Entrepreneurship in Software

I’m Adam Walker a Biometrics consultant, and this is the Pharma Prescribed Podcast—where leaders, innovators, and hidden voices in healthcare open up. No soundbites. No spin. Just raw insight—one prescription at a time. In an industry driven by data, protocols, and pressure, we rarely pause to ask the human questions: What drives us? What breaks us? And what truths live behind the titles we wear? Duncan Kemp is the founder of Saltware Solutions, a software consultancy firm with a mission to empower life science businesses with innovative and reliable solutions that drive efficiency, enhance productivity, and foster growth. With over 20 years leading the development of software for the life sciences industry, Duncan has translated customer requirements to technical concepts with clarity, so incredible ideas are converted into tangible business benefits. His journey began in 1998 during university whilst working at a small startup developing site automation software for phase I trials. Over a period of two decades Duncan navigated several company acquisitions which resulted in leading multiple teams of software engineers across three continents. In January 2024 that all changed when Duncan was restructured out of his role and decided to make the daunting leap into setting up a business. In March 2025 Duncan and I met at the Association of Clinical Data Mgt event in the beautiful city of Prague. We struck up a friendship and after an amusing butt-dial have kept in contact ever since.