“Karen’s combination of detailed technical knowledge with excellent marketing skills has made her invaluable to our business. From communicating complex technical materials easily to producing high-quality conceptualization, Karen’s has been the right person for our business growth. She’s excellent to work with, constantly delivering high-quality results in a timely manner, and most importantly with high integrity and outstanding work ethics. We’ve been lucky to have found Karen and certainly will continue working with her.” Vladimir Sykora, COO Molplex Ltd.
“Karen has this unique capability to rapidly understand life science products and services and the distinctive ability to integrate marketing and business development needs and mid- to long-term strategy. She provided us one-stop-shop solution to launch our innovative services and the tools to support the growth of our business. We were able to size the impact of her support on our business development activity in matter of weeks! All that with a charming smile. Who needs more?!” Frederic Girard, CEO Spinnovation-Analytical B.V.
“Karen does a great job of turning a marketing or market analysis idea into reality. She helped to generate a realistic picture of market opportunity and track our progress in generating new contacts and business. She’s also been able to effectively implement targeted marketing campaigns, with a good return on our efforts. I highly recommend Karen to anyone in the healthcare industry looking to better understand and penetrate their market.” Melinda Turner, Senior Director Business Development, Xceleron.
“Karen provides a professional service and immediately demonstrates her expertise for marketing in the pharmaceutical industry. I am happy to recommend her services.” Claire Madden-Smith, Commercial Director, Molecular Profiles.
“Karen has an excellent job in helping us rebrand and reposition PharmaDiagnostics, producing on line and printed materials of high quality and visual impact that really communicate our message. Highly recommended.” David Ricketts, CEO, PharmaDiagnostics.
“Karen is one of the top marketing professionals in her field with an exceptional ability to identify and implement those marketing activities that will provide the most return for each particular service or product, a key skill when budgets are limited. Karen was a pleasure to work with and I am sure Bioengagement will be a success thanks to the passion and energy she has for this sector – I would not hesitate to recommend Karen to anyone looking to raise their company, service or product profile in the biotech and pharmaceutical arena.” James Harper, Managing Director at 28b.
“I have no hesitation at all in recommending Karen. At Pharmaceutical Profiles, Karen used her considerable scientific knowledge to quickly identify the business and product opportunities focused around early clinical development services. She defined and articulated a well thought through and integrated marketing strategy and then lead the implementation of the marketing plan with very limited resources. As a direct result, we were able to achieve a number of ‘quick wins’ securing business linked directly to the marketing activity and greatly increasing the visibility of Pharmaceutical Profiles in our target market.” Gareth King, Chief Business Officer, Critical Pharmaceuticals.
“Very rarely do you find marketeers that have a solid grasp of science & technology, business development and marketing – Karen ticks all of those boxes and brings a unique set of skills and experience to any marketing initiative. We worked together on a number of successful tactical and strategic marketing campaigns at Pharmaceutical Profiles and I would have no hesitation in recommending Karen and I hope we may collaborate again in the future.” Matthew Paterson, VP Business Development, Quotient Clinical.
“Karen is an experienced marketing professional with an impressive background in biosciences which enables her to get to the heart of scientific data and effectively communicate them in creative and captivating ways. She has a talent in helping the scientist or clinician with no marketing experience to clearly encapsulate the key messages they wish to get across.” Andrew Rankin, Head of Clinical Development, Teva Pharmaceuticals.
“Karen is a delight to work with. Highly focussed and good company she has a talent for shaping product opportunities from complex technology and then getting those products out into the market. She was integral to getting Cyprotex off the ground and building the first revenues and would add tremendous value to any technology business needing to shape their ideas into a successful business.” David Leahy, Drug Discovery Scientist, CEO and Entrepreneur.
If you need help with commercialising your life science business, please contact me at karen@bioengagement.com, or call +44(0)1617 712185. I would be happy to hear about your company and your challenges; discuss whether my services and experience would be a good fit, and how I could help you take your company to the next level.
