Laura Brown appointed to Ashfield Meetings & Events ’ board
Laura has over 15 years’ event experience including seven years working with pharmaceutical and life science clients at Ashfield Meetings & Events. During her career with the agency, she has held various positions including operational, account management, training and business development roles. In this time Laura has worked with pharmaceutical, medical devices, diagnostic, nutritional health, biotech and association clients. Laura’s appointment follows her move in February 2015 from the agencies European Hub in the UK as an Account Director to their U.S. hub office in Ivyland, Pennsylvania, as Vice President of O...
Source: Ashfield Healthcare News - September 15, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Olaf Spinkel Tags: Ashfield Source Type: news

Laura Brown appointed to Ashfield Meetings & Events board
Laura has over 15 years’ event experience including seven years working with pharmaceutical and life science clients at Ashfield Meetings & Events. During her career with the agency, she has held various positions including operational, account management, training and business development roles. In this time Laura has worked with pharmaceutical, medical devices, diagnostic, nutritional health, biotech and association clients. Laura’s appointment follows her move in February 2015 from the agencies European Hub in the UK as an Account Director to their U.S. hub office in Ivyland, Pennsylvania, as Vice President of O...
Source: Ashfield Healthcare News - September 15, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Olaf Spinkel Tags: Ashfield Source Type: news

Ashfield Nordic recruits Martin Lindgren as Nordic Business Development Manager and further expands in the Nordic market
“I have followed Ashfield’s growth for several years through various positions in my time within the pharmaceutical industry. It will be a brand new challenge in my new role to work with business development in a market that is constantly evolving”, says Martin Lindgren. In the position as Business Development Manager, Martin replaces Niklas Eriksson, who moving forward will work as Senior Consultant looking closely at performance excellence and consulting, both of which have seen positive growth over the past two years. Internally at Ashfield Nordic, Martin will be a member of the Nordic business development team le...
Source: Ashfield Healthcare News - September 13, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Olaf Spinkel Tags: Ashfield Source Type: news

Ashfield Meetings and Events named in tenth annual MeetingsNet CMI 25 List
The CMI 25 list is compiled by Penton Media’s MeetingsNet, a digital magazine and website dedicated to the meetings and incentives industry that focuses on the US market. The annual list is a key resource for meeting managers, incentive travel executives and procurement professionals researching information on the meeting industry’s leading outsourcing partners. The 2016 list is the tenth annual directory of the largest and most influential full service meeting and incentive travel management companies in the US. It is the fifth consecutive year that Ashfield Meetings & Events has been recognised by MeetingsNet in ...
Source: Ashfield Healthcare News - September 9, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Olaf Spinkel Tags: Ashfield Source Type: news

Ashfield Meetings and Events named in the 10th Annual Meetingsnet CMI 25 List
The CMI 25 list is compiled by Penton Media’s MeetingsNet, a digital magazine and website dedicated to the meetings and incentives industry that focusses on the U.S. market. The annual list is a key resource for meeting managers, incentive travel executives and procurement professionals researching information on the meeting industry’s leading outsourcing partners. The 2016 list is the tenth annual directory of the largest and most influential full service meeting and incentive travel management companies in the U.S. It is the fifth consecutive year that Ashfield Meetings & Events has been recognised by MeetingsNet...
Source: Ashfield Healthcare News - September 9, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Olaf Spinkel Tags: Ashfield Source Type: news

Ashfield Nordic Oy is expanding in Finland
Annika Himberg has been appointed to Head of Operations & Business Development Manager, to be responsible for the Finnish operations of Ashfield Nordic Oy. She has previously worked at AbbVie Oy as Business Unit Manager. She has 13 years’ experience of launching new pharmaceuticals as well as expertise of sales, marketing and management positions in the pharmaceutical industry both in Finland and in the Nordics. Kati Vierikko has been appointed to Sales and Marketing Assistant. She is responsible for the sales, marketing and human resources support functions in Finland. The use of consultants and the consultancy ser...
Source: Ashfield Healthcare News - September 9, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Olaf Spinkel Tags: Ashfield Source Type: news

Becky Paul announced as Head of the Commercial Contact Centre
Becky has been successful in a number of key roles in Ashfield since joining the company over seven years ago, and has now been appointed in this important leadership role in one of the most dynamic and fastest growing parts of the business, which now has over 70 people working for 15 clients across 23 different projects. Becky will be responsible for operational delivery as well as inputting to overall strategy and development, and commented: “I’m thrilled to be working in such a dynamic part of the business with an established team. Multichannel communication is a key area within the industry and to be part of a grow...
Source: Ashfield Healthcare News - September 5, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Olaf Spinkel Tags: Ashfield Source Type: news

Our superhero teams join forces for this year ’s #AshfieldAssemble Best Practice Fete
The theme for the day was #AshfieldAssemble Ashfield Superheroes and it is fair to say that our staff threw themselves into the theme with great energy, enthusiasm and fancy dress – take a look at our Twitter page @AshfieldHealth for some photos from the day. This year, staff manned 23 booths to showcase their teams’ talents in providing innovative, creative solutions, strategic consultation and insights to support their clients. This networking event enabled people from across the business to meet with colleagues in other agencies and areas of the business to learn about how we can continue to collaborate and develop...
Source: Ashfield Healthcare News - August 15, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Sarah Edwards Tags: Ashfield Source Type: news

Ashfield Meetings & Events develop blueprint for future success
The Lab, now in its fourth year, is an interactive event for UK staff dedicated to delivering continued professional development and building supplier partnerships. It is designed to complement the agency’s comprehensive learning and development programme that recently collected the gold award at the UK Employee Experience Awards. This year the event will have over 250 attendees and will run all day, giving staff the opportunity to learn through a combination of sharing best practice, facilitated workshops, campfire sessions, external speakers and exhibit environments. Luke Flett (Global Head of Marketing, Ashfield M...
Source: Ashfield Healthcare News - August 10, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Ewan Jamieson Tags: Ashfield Source Type: news

CMW put Ashfield ’s research on physician meeting perspectives under the microscope
Gerry Montgomery commented: “The data from the study, and regular interactions with experts and prescribers, helps us to better understand healthcare professionals. It allows us to develop personalised learning journeys for each event audience.” The article goes on to address what type of meetings were attended over the last twelve months, the channel preferences of healthcare professionals and their most preferred meeting types. It concludes by saying that for educational meetings to continue to add value – for both pharmaceutical event organisers and their audiences – new approaches are needed to harness ...
Source: Ashfield Healthcare News - August 10, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Ewan Jamieson Tags: Ashfield Source Type: news

Ashfield launches global impact on society initiative
Ashfield, part of UDG Healthcare plc (LON: UDG), a global leader in providing outsourced healthcare services to pharmaceutical, device and biotech companies, announces today the launch of a new international initiative, Ashfield Cares. Formed from a recently launched employee engagement programme called the Ashfield Way,  Ashfield Cares aims to actively support both charitable and non-charitable causes, and will assist organisations in addressing healthcare, community development, and educational needs through fundraising activities and the provision of time and skills. This support underpins Ashfield’s pledge to harnes...
Source: Ashfield Healthcare News - August 10, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Josee Leach Tags: Ashfield Source Type: news

LEO Pharma appoint Ashfield Meetings & Events exhibits team
LEO Pharma are specialists in dermatology and thromboembolic medicine, treating skin and blood clotting conditions in over 100 markets globally. The Denmark-based pharmaceutical company has not exhibited at EADV for four years. The strategic decision to exhibit there this year follows recent high profile acquisitions, existing product and treatment updates and the need to communicate new biologic treatments to leading dermatology physicians. Ashfield Meetings & Events will be designing, building and project managing a 63m² booth. The exhibit space will be transformed into an immersive learning environment using a numb...
Source: Ashfield Healthcare News - August 3, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Ewan Jamieson Tags: Ashfield Source Type: news

Does agency size matter?
The session – Size Matters; Or Does it? – will see Luke Flett (Global Head of Marketing) debate the role of small and large agencies in these times of radical global change. The session will cover key topics such as stakeholder perception, culture and innovation whilst considering the increasingly competitive environment, ever-increasing expectations and need for consolidation from clients. The session will be moderated by journalist and TV presenter Karen Bowerman and Luke Flett will be representing Ashfield as one of the largest full service event management agencies in the UK. The three-day event offers many...
Source: Ashfield Healthcare News - August 1, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Ewan Jamieson Tags: Ashfield Source Type: news

Ashfield Commercial and Medical Services to move to new US corporate headquarters
Ivyland, PA (July 28, 2016) – Ashfield Commercial and Medical Services, part of UDG Healthcare plc recently announced plans to move its corporate office to 1110 Virginia Drive, Fort Washington, PA due to the continuing expansion of the business. The new office, situated in Philadelphia’s northwestern suburbs, is over 80,000 sq.ft. which is 60% larger than the current Ashfield workspace. The expected move is scheduled for March 2017 after construction of the new space is completed in February. Ashfield, a leading outsourcing partner for the pharmaceutical and biotech industry for commercial and medical services, has bee...
Source: Ashfield Healthcare News - July 29, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Olaf Spinkel Tags: Ashfield Source Type: news

Pegasus wins Communications Consultancy of the Year 2016
Judges offered particular praise for their ‘genuinely integrated’ offering. Pegasus are extremely happy to report that they left last night’s Communiqué Awards with not one, but two trophies in hand. The first is for Excellence in Media Relations for our work with Lloyds Pharmacy on the Sex Degrees of Separation campaign, and the second the prestigious and highly sought after Communications Consultancy of the Year 2016. David Greenwood, Senior Account Director and social consultant at Pegasus commented “we’d just like to say how extremely proud we are to have been selected by the judging panel (who had s...
Source: Ashfield Healthcare News - July 8, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Josee Leach Tags: Ashfield Source Type: news