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Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Direct charity events and support fundraising and beneficiary relationships for this top-rated nonprofit, which has raised over $150 million to fund cancer research grants that enable medical breakthroughs and measurably impact communities nationwide.

South Kingstown, R.I.

Provide strategic communications, writing, branding, project and event management support to for-profit companies and nonprofit organizations.

Cranston, R.I.

• ️ Directed communications for the energy services division of employee-owned Thielsch Engineering whilst the division’s annual revenue grew from $90M to $130M.
• ️ Refreshed the brand and implemented technology-driven process improvements, including a new website and SaaS solutions that support inbound marketing and customer service across multiple offices.
• ️ Managed the creation of marketing assets and promotion of energy-efficiency programs for utilities and other program sponsors.
• ️ Supervised contractors, agencies, staff, vendors, sponsorships, and trade show activities; fulfilled special projects including talent acquisition.

Cambridge, Mass.

• ️ Led the corporate communications department for a Nasdaq-listed biopharma that developed and manufactured hemoglobin-based oxygen therapeutics aka “blood substitutes.”
• ️ Created the communications infrastructure, brand voice, core content, and website to support the IPO and other financings that raised over $300M.
• ️ Directed IR, PR, creative services; coordinated change and issues management.
• ️ Managed lobbying activities that secured $20M of federal funding for R&D.
• ️ Communicated daily with the media, investors, bankers, medical KOLs, patients, government officials, business partners, and legal counsel.
• ️ Developed news & earnings releases, press & investor kits, executive summaries and correspondence, presentations, newsletters, congressional briefs, annual reports, and more.

Boston, Mass.

• ️ Secured prominent, pre-IPO media coverage of Biopure Corp's $50 million private placement, manufacturing technology, and investigational oxygen therapeutics; developed a PR campaign for FDA approval of its.
• ️ Drove enrollment in the Uniformed Services Family Health Plan by generating media coverage of Martin’s Point Health Care’s $250M federal contract to provide TRICARE benefits.
• ️ Administered the Glaxo Wellcome Institute for Digestive Health research grants program; generated opportunistic media coverage of the company's ulcer drug.

New York, N.Y.

Conducted consumer and trade health care PR campaigns across various therapeutic categories and medical technologies for GTFH Public Relations' pharma and medtech accounts; supported development and commercialization of some of the world's most widely used drugs for Fortune 500 companies.