End-to-end product and global communications leader for Commercial, R&D, Supply Chain, and Business Development for Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine.

Lead communications and patient advocacy function for Novartis Global Drug Development (GDD), serving as the chief communications counselor to the Chief Medical Officer and leading across the following areas:*Internal associate / employee communications *Executive and thought leadership communications*Media Relations and external engagement *Crisis and issues management communications*Portfolio / product communications across oncology and pharmaceuticals*Storytelling and channel communications*Digital and social media engagement for clinical trials recruitment *Brand and reputation management *Science communications from early research through late-stage development*Support Investor Relations for early- and mid-stage oncology and immunotherapy pipeline

*Led Media Relations for early R&D organization including proactive external communications, community relations and reputation management.*Provided executive communications support to the President of NIBR with success in speech writing, scientific thought leadership and stakeholder engagement.

Associate Director, Social Media (June 2015 to January 2017) • Lead strategic communications for science-focused social channels and NIBR.com. • Collaborate with media relations on content and issues management. • Coach and train scientists and leaders on use of social platforms and content development• Produce video and other multimedia content for global social media channels • Develop and execute multi-channel campaigns with partner institutes • Support the digital initiatives of colleagues in human resources and clinical researchSocial Media Community Manager (October 2013 to June 2015) • Lead editorial and strategy for website of global research organization.• Produce multimedia content for web and social media channels.• Manage social media communities for internal and external science audiences.• Support governance framework for social media in global research communications.

Served on editorial leadership team for a growing family of life sciences publications which included FierceBiotech, FiercePharma, and FierceMedicalDevices. Mentored and managed team members in the U.S. and Europe while maintaining writing and editing responsibilities for flagship publications, primarily FierceBiotech. Worked closely with Editor-In-Chief, life sciences entrepreneurs, and investors to produce special publications (Fierce 15), live events, webinars, and conference coverage packages (JP Morgan, ADA, AASLD, BIO).

Wrote breaking news and feature articles about innovations, issues and companies in the life sciences sector.