Who we are

It’s not about us

It’s about building a better future

An adept guide, comprising the best minds in medical communications, creative and consulting, Fishawack Health boasts lifetimes of collective experience to empower every step from research and development to lasting legacy.

There’s strength in numbers

2001

The year Fishawack Health was founded

100+

Clients we currently work with worldwide

14

Different cities we have offices in around the world

850+

Specialists working for Fishawack Health

5

KOL panels in lung, oncology-hematology, hepatology, dermatology and ophthalmology

1

Bold, agile, connected company

Our values

Less talk. More teeth

We believe in authenticity

We are honest in our relationships, transparent in our communication and passionate about our work, our clients, their customers and their patients and causes.

We prioritize people

We support and respect one another in a nurturing, inspiring and diverse professional environment.

We have collaboration in our DNA

We thrive with the strength of our collective talent and expertise.

We revere the power of communication

We fuse data, strategic thinking and storytelling to change behavior and transform lives.

We celebrate originality

We champion fresh ideas, inspire creativity and channel imagination into innovation.

We cultivate fearlessness in each other

We are bold, curious and entrepreneurial by nature. We embrace challenge with vigor and adapt to change with agility. We take risks because we have confidence in our prowess and our ability to achieve.

Our vision

Fearlessly moving forward. Together

Fishawack is built for the new, dynamically changing healthcare environment. We bring world-class scientific, creative and strategic experts together in a richly collaborative environment designed to help our clients swiftly and confidently navigate this complex landscape.

Fueled by entrepreneurial drive and an obsession for excellence, our pack of navigators provides clients unique access to a vast spectrum of finely tuned commercialization capabilities.

Together, let's shape the future of healthcare.

Array

2001 - 2014

Strong from the beginning

Starting as a Med Comms company, we set out to provide the very best in healthcare communications through scientific navigation.

December 2009

Nexus

May 2010

Alpha Plus

June 2011

Phocus

May 2013

Archimed

March 2014

JK Associates

June 2014

Facilitate

November 2016

Indica Medical

2017 - 2019

Expanding Our Creative Power

We evolved by bolstering our strategic capabilities and laid the foundation to become a leader in creative excellence.

July 2017

Carling

May 2018

Healthcircle

December 2018

Blue Latitude Health

March 2019

Dudnyk

August 2019

2020 - ONWARDS

A new era with enhanced capabilities

We continue to seek out new opportunities for growth, looking to increase our capabilities, our scale and our scope, right across the commercialization space. Fishawack Health is now one of the leading global commercialization partners, moving the life science industry forward.

March 2020

Skysis

Annemarie Armstrong EVP, Head of Client Services, US

Annemarie leverages her client-side and agency experience to ensure the US Client Services team provides strategic thinking, smart solutions, and flawless execution within a strong client–agency partnership. Over her 25+ year career, Annemarie has led a roster of Agency of Record assignments and global brand launches, including several first commercial launches and rare disease brands. She was named a PM360 ELITE Award winner in the category of launch expertise.

Aoife van den Brande Head of Strategy, Global

Aoife leads the strategic delivery for our global and regional clients. She started her career in management consulting in Paris before moving to London, where she worked for Thomson Reuters before joining Blue Latitude Health in 2009. With more than 16 years advising healthcare clients, Aoife is impassioned about creating laser-sharp focus and standout creative communications for brands.

Béatrice Benoit Head, Medical Business Development

Béa has spent her career in the medical communications field, starting in client services and leading both small and large accounts through strategic and tactical implementation. With Fishawack Health for more than 18 years, Béa focuses her skills on the Fishawack Medical business development activities and ensuring our new clients receive the full breadth of our integrated capabilities.

Chris Jones Head of Project Management

Chris drives functional excellence across Fishawack Medical Project Management. With over 12 years’ project management experience in medical communications, 8 of them with Fishawack Health, Chris is dedicated to providing impeccable onboarding and training, sharing and implementing of best practices, and motivating the team to drive projects to success.

Damien Parsonage Head of Creative, Global

Damien is an award-winning copywriting creative, with 25-plus years’ experience in consumer, B2B, and, for the last decade, healthcare communications. He is fervent about the affective power of creativity; he loves language and the craft of copywriting. Damien leads the creative department at Fishawack Health Global, having joined Blue Latitude in 2013, where he helped set up their creative capability from scratch.

Dan Twibell President of Consulting

Dan leads the Commercial Strategy team in the US, assisting clients in commercial strategy and corporate development, brand management, and new product planning. Dan is Managing Director of Skysis, which he co-founded in 2011, having built his experience as Chief Client Development Officer for inVentiv Health (a global clinical and commercial services provider) and Executive VP at Chord Communications, where he built consulting and integrated services. He started his career in product marketing, business development, and strategic planning at UCB, Eli Lilly, and Larreacorp.

Daniel Zaksas, PhD Head of Medical and Scientific Affairs, US

Dan leads a team focused on ensuring that scientific rigor and medical strategy permeate all work across Fishawack Commercial. Trained as a neurobiologist, he built a career on applying the discipline of academic research to competitive intelligence, medical communications, and specialty marketing. With a passion for connecting health care professionals and patients in underserved disease states, Dan brings to Fishawack Health more than a decade of expertise in rare disease education, building brands, and growing the business.

Dave Stuteville EVP, Commercial Excellence

Dave has more than 25 years of pharma, biotech, and medical device experience, having led client and launch teams in partnership with Bristol Myers Squibb, Bayer, Pfizer, Onyx, Mead Johnson, Merck, and Alcon. His passion has always been to help organizations develop, align, and engage their people to maximize performance—believing that people are a company’s most important differential advantage. Dave has worked in all facets, including creative, account services, and agency management/leadership. He brings a unique, customer-centric approach to collaborating to develop innovative solutions.

David Snowball Chief Financial Officer

David is an experienced CFO and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, England and Wales. Before joining Fishawack Health, David was Group Finance Director at EG Group, a leading global fuel, food, and convenience retailer. He was previously Group Financial Controller at Ausurus Group, a global recycling business, and before that David spent more than 10 years at KPMG in both audit and deal advisory.

David Ormesher President of Marketing

David has over 30 years of marketing experience. An entrepreneur at heart, he is founder and CEO of closerlook, a digital-native agency for pharma. He redefines the value of the lead agency, blending strategy and creative with data analytics to power deeper audience engagement, leading to better health outcomes for patients and stronger business results for the brands that serve them. David is a thought leader in digital marketing, a recipient of the inaugural Red Jacket Award from PharmaVOICE, and trustee on numerous nonprofit boards.

David Sykes President Value, Evidence, and Access

David is a global Market Access thought leader with more than 25 years’ experience in industry and consultancy roles. He is a trusted advisor to global pharmaceutical and emerging biotech companies, partnering with them to provide innovative solutions to their most challenging Market Access issues. David has significant experience working with high-value innovative products across a broad range of therapy areas, including oncology, autoimmune diseases, rare diseases, and regenerative medicine.

Dawn Rich Head of Market Access Consulting

Dawn leads the Market Access team in the US, assisting clients in the areas of payer strategy and value story development, strategic market access business planning, launch execution, and patient services strategy. For the last 6 years she has been Managing Director of Skysis and before that spent 25-plus years in sales, account management, and managed care leadership roles at Genentech and Amgen. She is a registered pharmacist, with a BS in Pharmacy from Duquesne University and an MBA from University of San Francisco.

Drew Desjardins EVP, Chief Strategy Officer, US

Drew is responsible for US Brand Strategy in the commercial capability. Constantly striving for excellence, he leads a group of strategists to derive insights, shape markets, develop brand positioning, and conceive marketing strategies for US clients. With 20 years of sales and marketing client-side experience and 9-plus years at Dudnyk as Chief Strategy Officer, he has worked across therapies and is dedicated to helping patients with rare disease. He was named PM360 Elite Strategist in 2016 and to PharmaVoice 100 Most Inspiring People 2019.

Elizabeth Landon Chief People Officer

Liz is Fishawack Health’ s Chief People Officer, leading an international team of HR professionals in the development and delivery of talent, organization effectiveness, employee relations, diversity and inclusion, and change management services. Liz brings exceptional experience from a career supporting and scaling people-based businesses in the professional services and non-profit sector, including 25 years at Accenture, a global consulting firm with over 500,000 employees. Liz develops pathways that empower every employee to visualize their/her/his role in Fishawack Health’s ambitious vision for the future.

Elliot Lewis Head of Digital

Elliot has a rare hybrid of both creative and technical expertise. As the Head of Digital, he leads a team of specialists responsible for the delivery of digital programs across the group. Drawing on more than 20 years of digital experience, he contributes expert technical knowledge combined with strategic digital direction, always with a focus on crafting innovative solutions for our global healthcare clients.

Fabienne Machet Head of Events

Fabienne leads the Events Team at Fishawack Health and has 30 years’ experience in delivering meetings for the medical communications industry. A problem solver at heart, pivoting to virtual meetings to support clients’ business needs during the COVID-19 lockdown is just one of many “curve balls” Fabienne has successfully conquered, with poise and ease. Fabienne and her team are developing solutions and innovations for hybrid events and the return of live events.

Gail Flockhart Group President

Gail began her career as a pharmacologist and has spent more than 30 years working with global, US, and regional teams in pharma industry and agency management roles. She joined Fishawack Health in 2009, inspired by the opportunity to develop an independent, entrepreneurial agency with a people-centric culture. Her leadership has enabled collaboration across agency capabilities and has prioritized an organizational culture supporting development opportunities for staff.

Gary Lyons Head of Strategy

With more than 25 years of industry experience in pharma, consulting, and scientific agencies, Gary is deeply committed to strategic innovation and transformation in medical affairs. He now leads the Medical Strategy Group—which comprises industry-leading experts across scientific communications, publications, health care professionals engagement, partnerships, and multichannel—ensuring we put our best strategic foot forward at all times.

Glenn Wilson Business Unit Head

Glenn originally qualified as a pharmacist, working in the National Health Service before moving into pharma, with experience in global medical information, publications, and medical affairs leadership. He subsequently moved into the agency environment and has more than 20 years’ experience across a range of client services and business leadership roles. Glenn has particular interest in strategic communications planning, as well as oncology and diabetes therapy.

Jas Hummel Global Head of Client Partnerships

Jas has over 25 years’ experience in healthcare communications, having started her career as a medical representative before moving into healthcare communications. She co-founded Hive in 2008 and built an agency team that is strategic, scientific and creative. This brings with it a desire to deliver the best possible experiences and outcomes for HCPs, patients and our clients. Jas ensures she has strategic oversight of all work for clients and has extensive experience in leading Global, US and regional business.

Jerri Lynn Mitchell Head of Operations, US

An experienced leader with a diverse background in finance, marketing, and advertising, Jerri Lynn has been with Fishawack Health since 2019. She brings to the agency a decade of experience at Digitas Health, most recently as VP/Group Director, Business Management. She has worked with major clients including Janssen, Merck, and Gilead. Jerri Lynn earned an MBA in business administration and management from Saint Joseph’s University’s Erivan K. Haub School of Business and her undergraduate degree from Drexel University in Philadelphia.

Jo Wilkinson Head of Compliance

Jo earned a PhD in immunology in 2003 before moving into healthcare communications more than 15 years ago. She joined Fishawack Health in 2007 and worked extensively across medical writing and client services before moving into Group Operations. The experience has provided her with a rounded understanding of the business, which she applies tenaciously to overseeing all aspects of compliance across the organization.

John Burt Head of Project Management, US

John makes sure all the agency’s projects stay within scope and on budget. As an experienced leader with a diverse background in media, technology, and creative operations, he brings to the agency two decades of experience from Harte-Hanks, Rosetta, and MRM McCann. He has worked with major clients in and out of the healthcare space. John earned an MBA in business administration and management from La Salle University in Philadelphia.

Jonathan Koch CEO

Jon subscribes to a people-led philosophy and believes in energizing and empowering diverse teams with a unifying mission, vision, and values. He brings a wealth of experience leading large and complex global customer-centered organizations. Jon has a proven track record leading high-performance teams and transforming businesses to drive innovation in evolving markets. Having spent his entire career in healthcare, Jon is passionate about supporting life science companies in their mission to transform patient lives and drive faster access to life-saving therapies.

Kirsty Wear Global Head of Talent

Kirsty has more than 12 years of HR and Talent Acquisition experience in consumer advertising and healthcare marketing. After heading up HR and Talent for Blue Latitude Health, she moved into a global talent role for Fishawack Health, looking after talent acquisition across the group. Kirsty is dedicated to ensuring Fishawack Health offers a diverse and inclusive culture and that both the business and employees thrive and grow.

Lara Hancock Business Unit Head

Lara is a Business Unit Head at Fishawack Medical, leading a multidisciplinary team of 130 dedicated specialists. She draws on 20-plus years of industry-leading experience, from leadership roles in pharma sales and marketing (MSD & AstraZeneca) to global medical communication agencies. Lara is a strong and engaging leader with an eye for excellence in engagement strategies, commercial development, and unit performance, geared to delivering world-class solutions for clients.

Lee Krauss Product Innovation and Brand Management

Lee has been working in the healthcare space for nearly 20 years. His initial experience as a pharmaceutical sales representative and then product manager established a strong foundation, affording him an ability to connect and solve a wide range of business needs. He is devoted to applying current trends and technology to challenges of all shapes and sizes to deliver meaningful and measurable results.

Lori Lush President of Medical

Lori’s experience as a pharmacist, across retail, hospital, long-term care, and home-health care settings, has served her well during her 25 years in the medical communications industry. She began her med comms career as a medical writer, driven by her love of clearly communicating scientific stories. Over time, she has broadened her team leadership skills and business acumen, focusing on operational processes, commercial successes, and building the leaders of tomorrow.

Matt Bolton Managing Consultant

Matt is responsible for leading the UK-based consulting team, overseeing the delivery of projects at a global and EMEA level. He strives to ensure we bring the voice of the patient into every project, from early-stage clinical strategy through post-launch customer engagement. With 15 years’ experience in marketing and healthcare consulting, Matt has a passion for evolving our consulting service set to meet the current and future demands of our clients and their customers.

Matt Dodd Head of Motion Graphics

Matt leads the motion department, where he is responsible for managing the growing team of video creatives and producers and the development and operation of all video-related projects for the group. With a BA in graphic design and animation, Matt brings his enthusiasm for technology and graphic design to his role, where he continues to push the boundaries of storytelling and innovation for all our healthcare clients.

Nick Holmes Global Head of Professional Development

Nick leads our Professional Development department and is on a mission to revolutionize the career experience at Fishawack Health. He has been leading diverse teams for over 7 years, with roles ranging from Global Head of Learning and Development to Head of People and Culture. Eternally optimistic, a believer in new platforms and technologies, and an ardent life learner, Nick is always looking for ways to challenge the professional development status quo.

Peter Timmer Head of Experience, Managing Consultant

Peter is proud to lead a strong team of strategic user experience and service designers whose primary focus is to design customer experiences that transform patient outcomes. The Experience team works on client projects in all geographies and across consulting, medical, and commercial engagements. He has a PhD in ergonomics and has worked in user experience for 30 years. He is excited about mapping complex “problem spaces” and navigating with clients to solution spaces.

Phil Thomas Chief Technology Officer

Phil leads group technology across Fishawack Health with over 20 years' experience as a digital, IT, and business solutions specialist, allowing him to continuously manage, evolve, and merge our technology platforms in all areas.

Philip Hall Director of M&A

Phil joined Fishawack Health in June 2020, having worked closely with the company in his previous role in the Corporate Finance team at KPMG, where he started his career in 2011. He works with the Executive team on Fishawack Health’s merger and acquisition activity, identifying new companies to join our group that share our values and can help to further evolve our capabilities, ensuring we continue to effectively solve our clients’ challenges.

Rachel Siddorn Head of Scientific Services

Rachel has over 20 years’ experience in medical communications, with a particular interest in publications. She has PhD in the cardiovascular field and has experience across many therapy areas. Rachel joined Fishawack in 2005 and has held various scientific and operational leadership roles within the business. She currently has responsibility for the medical writing and scientific services function, optimizing team performance, editorial quality, and scientific excellence.

Richard Bowyer Business Solutions Director

Richard has been involved in professional services and agency life for over 25 years, most of which has been spent in healthcare and life sciences. He has worked for big organizations like Cognizant and Reuters, as well starting a variety of digital agencies. He leads the Business Solutions Group, which is responsible for the software platforms that drive Fishawack Health (HR, ERP/PSA, Data Warehouse, and Training). They select, implement, and operate these solutions and continuously improve the integration and experience for users.

Ruth Percival Chief Integration Officer

Ruth began working with Fishawack Health as a principal advisor, directing the company through 2 rounds of investment and 4 acquisitions. She recently joined us full-time to ensure the smooth integration of new members of the group. Ruth has many years of experience in merger and acquisitions and exceptional change management skills.

Sari Schwartz Head of HR, US

Sari is Head of Human Resources for Fishawack Health US. Under her leadership, her team looks after the employee experience for Fishawack Health employees in the US, including onboarding, training, coaching and performance, and employee benefits. Sari has a keen belief in the importance of a culture focused on coaching and conversation, as well as the value of a strong brand, both corporate and employer. In January 2021, Sari celebrated 7 years with Dudnyk, now part of Fishawack Health. Sari is a proud expat Canadian.

Shubha Prabhat Head of Client Services, Global

Shubha brings well over a decade of marketing experience from multiple consumer brands and categories to her role at Fishawack Health, where she has wholeheartedly launched herself into the world of healthcare since 2018. She believes that the key to finding solutions is to get the problem right, which is the basis for delivering successful projects. Shubha’s focus is on building unique client–agency relationships that deliver great value for brands.

Simon Young SVP, Sales Operations

Simon is a seasoned marketing and business development professional. Having spent more than 20 years of his career as a consultant working with clients in the top 20 global pharmaceutical companies, he is highly enthusiastic about solving challenging problems. In his role as SVP, Sales Operations, he brings deep a commitment to ensuring that Fishawack Health puts forward a world-class sales organization and that the company maintains a single view of our customers.

Sophie Berger Head of Marketing and Corporate Communications

Sophie brings 25-plus years of marketing and communications experience in high-growth agencies, start-ups, global media, and client-side organizations, including 12 years in healthcare. Sophie manages internal and external marketing and communications at Fishawack Health, driving awareness and engagement among current and prospective clients, employees, and partners. Sophie is collaborative by nature and combines creative and commercial thinking to drive measurable results.

Stacey Everett Head of Client Services

With 24 years’ experience, Stacey is Head of Medical Client Services. Her passion is fueled by the ardent belief that superior client service people are driven to make their clients bona fide rock stars. At Fishawack Health, our client service group believes relationships are our most valuable resource, empowering us to strive to inspire, collaborate, and innovate in ways to exceed expectations. A past HBA (Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association) Rising Star, Stacey’s unflappable optimism is the underpinning to all that she does.

Steve Galt Business Unit Head, Global

With nearly 20 years of experience in the healthcare and pharma industry, Steve brings a wealth of knowledge to the Global Commercial team in diverse areas, such as commercial strategy, patient programs, and medical communications. Motivated by complex challenges and the fast pace of the healthcare sector, Steve is particularly driven by solving challenges where there are unfulfilled needs, such as rare diseases, pediatric conditions, and complex therapies.

Tim Browning Head of Expert Partnerships

Tim has extensive experience, having worked 10 years in industry for Roche and Boehringer Mannheim and 18 years with medical education agencies, working with global clients across a wide range of products and therapy areas. In a competitive global marketplace, gaining independent expert insight is more important than ever. Tim is eager to develop dedicated collaborations between industry and global experts and leads the Expert Partnership unit, currently focusing on dermatology, oncology, hepatology, and ophthalmology.

Whitney Bender Head of Creative Studio

Whitney has more than 15 years’ experience leading teams at both consumer and pharma agencies. She has won numerous awards for her creativity, including for our rare disease and pro bono clients. She leads the Creative Studio department at Fishawack Health, a globally integrated team that specializes in the ownership and intricacies of each brand at the delivery phase.

Meet the leadership team