Truva Corp is a professional services business based in London. We operate as a multi-disciplinary team, drawing on our legal expertise to deliver a range of services to clients globally. We provide solutions in regulation, compliance, data protection, corporate administration and trustee services.As client director, I have responsibility for service development and growth. I joined Truva from Omnicom, one of the world’s two big holding companies in marketing services. At Omnicom, I was global client director with responsibility for growth of the group’s largest healthcare client. Today, I routinely provide strategic guidance on the integration of projects into clients’ existing business infrastructure and objectives. I also sit on the board of several Truva clients.

STARS-U is, a national non-profit organisation committed to improving diagnosis and treatment for people who suffer from spontaneous transient loss of consciousness (blackouts or T-LOC). The majority of T-LOC results from an undiagnosed heart rhythm disorder, syncope, that is easy and inexpensive to treat. In many cases, patients are undiagnosed, misdiagnosed with epilepsy or their complaints are dismissed as 'simple fainting'.

At Omnicom I was responsible for global leadership for the group's largest health client, Pfizer, which was served by over 40 Omnicom agencies in over 50 countries.

Leader of global communications for Medtronic’s CardioVascular business. The role required the planning and execution of effective communications initiatives to support reputation and marketing objectives. CardioVascular was the fastest growing of Medtronic’s businesses and among the most litigious and acquisitive. This environment created unique and significant internal and external challenges for which effective communications were essential.

Medtronic is the market-leading medical device manufacturer in the UK and Ireland, a region which is one of the company’s strongest in Western Europe. Communications works closely in the UK with senior management to address growth barriers with advocacy, reimbursement and policy strategies.

GCI is the PR division of Grey Global Group, part of WPP since 2006. To capitalize upon the distributed expertise of the network, GCI established a European Healthcare practice to provide international strategic counsel to pharmaceutical, nutrition and medical device clients.As VP of this European healthcare practice, led and developed boutique UK-oriented team into an international healthcare business. Significant rapid and sustained growth with blue-chip clients including: GlaxoSmithKline, Eli Lilly Clinical Research, Eli Lilly Global Pharmaceuticals Novo Nordisk, Medtronic, Pharmacia