People, October, 2009

Mover of the month

Penn Pharma has appointed Karl Fry as director of quality. He joins from a quality management role at Patheon. During his 16-year pharmaceutical career, Karl has managed product quality for a range of clinical trial supply, packaging and pharmaceutical contract manufacturing companies.

Clear has made Charlotte Highfield its UK managing director. She will lead the UK board. Previously a team director, she replaces Alan King who moves to open the Australian office in Sydney. Simon Clough becomes team director and will sit on the UK board. Finance director, Aine McLaughin, has also been promoted to the board.

Penny Johnson has taken on the role of industry liaison manager at the Manchester Biomedical Research Centre. She joins the team from Intercytex where she was director of research. She holds a PhD from the University of Toronto and completed two postdoctoral fellowships in cell research at the University of Manchester.

Lois Hall is the new UK chief executive officer at Ogilvy Healthworld. She has over 20 years' experience in healthcare communications and has held senior positions within the group. Matt de Gruchy is to take the newly created role of client service director for the UK Group from his current position as managing director of OgilvyHealthPR. De Gruchy has been with Ogilvy for over 10 years. Antonia Betts takes over his former role. She has been director of operations for several years and was previously MD of Shire Health International.

Matt Macland has joined VCCP Health as creative director, working alongside Brett O'Connor. Matt was formerly creative director at Torre Lazur McCann, where he worked for almost nine years, winning many top creative awards and gaining experience in several therapeutic areas. Matt is best known for his creative work on Seretide, Nurofen for Kids and Risperdal Consta.

medeConnect Healthcare Insight has adopted an account team structure and appointed two client services directors to head the teams. They are Nicky Richards, who was previously commercial director of Cegedim Strategic Data, and Neil Reynolds, formerly medeConnect's research director. Nicky was founding partner of CompuFile, which was purchased by Cegedim in 2005.

Sarah Butterworth has joined ERL Medicom as director. She transferred from Euro RSCG Life Catapult, where she ran the medical education practice. With 16 years' experience in healthcare communications, she was a healthcare marketing consultant for four years at Grey, Ogilvy, ivillage, and Euro after leaving Current Medical Directions, New York, where she spent her first 12 agency years. Sarah Lucas has also joined the team as an account executive following her recent graduation from the University of Southampton with a BSc in biochemistry. Sarah will work across a variety of therapy areas including type 2 diabetes, smoking cessation and depression.

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