Bionical Leadership Team

Over a 25-year career in Healthcare Gareth has held board level positions for both Pharma and outsourced providers. Following many successful years with Takeda, Gareth moved to the US in 2010 to head up outsourced commercial, clinical and multi-channel services for a global outsourcing provider. In 2013 Gareth moved into a global marketing role before returning to the UK and joining Bionical in 2016. Gareth is passionate about customer and patient experience, has substantial experience of multi-channel communication strategies and heads up Bionical’s communications and digital business units.

Helen has extensive commercial and clinical experience that has been gained over 25 years working within the healthcare arena. Helen thrives on providing solutions based on innovation in service delivery to support and improve patient experience and outcomes. Understanding the specific needs of patients the health system and client, aligned with patient journey mapping that challenges current thinking is key to creating personalised solutions and outcomes.   Helen has experience of multiple product launches, has developed in excess of 100 clinical programmes internationally and has extensive knowledge of homecare and patient support services across a wide range of therapy areas and channels

Phil has 23 years of strategic and operational leadership experience and has also held Board positions in varied healthcare service sectors. Phil has a vast experience in developing and implementing multi-channel engagement models and has stood as Chair & Speaker at International congresses on customer engagement journeys and Channel engagement models.

Julie is a Registered General Nurse of over 28 years, and has focused her career on long term condition management. Julie believes in developing Patient Support Programmes (PSPs) that are individualised to each patient’s specific needs and enabling people living with long term conditions to focus on their wellness and not their illness. Julie has extensive experience in Clinical Homecare and development of PSPs having worked in that field for over 22 years, she is an expert in the design, implementation and ongoing management of these services across multiple therapy areas and is passionate about driving operational excellence across all our clinical services.

Giles qualified as a Chartered Accountant at KPMG having started his career as an Auditor in Central London. Once qualified Giles went into industry at Toyota before working for nearly 20 years in the Railway Industry both within the UK and globally.  Giles thrives on adding value to an organisation by providing appropriate and timely information to support commercially aware decisions. He is new to the Health Sector but is loving applying his experience to a new industry for the benefit of all stakeholders.

With more than 30 years’ experience in the biopharma sector, Mark has been involved in twenty new product launches and worked extensively in all of the main global markets. His client-side work has included both global and domestic marketing, general management and strategy roles progressing to global vice president level. He has worked at Sanofi, Roche, MSD and GSK. For the past ten years Mark has held senior management positions in some of the world’s largest marketing and advisory services organisations including IQVIA, Syneos and McCann.

Beginning her career in Market Research & Insight for a fieldwork agency, Becky has over 15 years pharmaceutical industry experience spanning a number of roles including Sales Force Effectiveness, Training and more latterly heading up multi-channel marketing operations with a team of  >100 remote eDetailers, Business Managers and Project Managers. Becky joined Bionical’s Digital team in 2018 and thrives on exceeding client expectations and focusing on operational excellence with her team of Account and Project Managers. Becky is passionate about providing solutions based on insight that drive patient and customer engagement.

Phil has over 15 years industry experience and has led teams in a wide range of areas spanning the design and delivery of multinational and multilingual Digital Sales Aids and Solutions for EAME clients through to the delivery of products for patient identification and support.  A collaborative thinker, Phil loves working with our clients to ensure the right solution is realised and delivered.  Bridging between Insights, Creative and Development teams to drive innovative user centric solutions Phil is constantly looking for new ways to enhance customer or patient experience using technology.

Amy is a UK qualified Solicitor and employment law expert who has spent the last 14 years working in industry, 11 of those in the pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors.  Having advised on the implementation of numerous TUPE transfers, mergers, acquisitions and complex employee relations matters, Amy took the opportunity in 2016 to move into an HR role with Bionical.  As HR Director Amy heads up the HR and Recruitment Teams who work with passion and commitment to ensure that everyone at Bionical Solutions has an environment in which they can do their best work and achieve their full potential.

Damian has 23 years’ experience working in IT in both the private and public sector and across a wide range of businesses and organisations.  Over the last 16 years Damian has operated at a senior level in the healthcare sector managing in-house, outsourced and co-sourced IT functions.  During this time, Damian has led on large scale IT and technology projects aimed at harnessing the benefits of innovation and achieving business transformation.  As Bionical’s IT Director, Damian thrives on designing bespoke IT and technology solutions that deliver our client’s, and Bionical Solutions’ own, strategic objectives. 

Gill qualified as a Solicitor in 1999.  She has been working in industry for the last 12 years in a wide range of businesses, developing her broad legal and commercial knowledge.   Gill has experience of advising both UK and global organisations and has a comprehensive understanding of the legal challenges faced by business.  Gill’s experience includes giving general IP advice; negotiation, advising upon and drafting of contracts; insurance administration; Company secretarial compliance; compliance with Bribery Act, including training & due diligence; Competition Law compliance & training.  Key strengths include ensuring the effective identification and management of contractual, regulatory and other legal risks, whether they are statutory or commercial.  Gill joined Bionical Solutions in September 2019.

Working for over 16 years in the pharmaceutical industry, Ben has a wide range of skills within both the commercial and clinical functions.  Experiences ranging from Medical Sales Management via Training and Pharmaceutical Sales has given Ben an insight into what healthcare professionals require from their interactions and communications with our clients.  Financially trained and having managed a Commercial Contact Centre for one of the country’s largest pharmaceutical and vaccine companies for 3 years, Ben joined Bionical in January 2019, and focusses on providing excellent systems, processes and data reporting for our clinical services.

With over 25 years’ experience within the I.T. industry, Mark started out as a software developer and progressed through the ranks, before hanging up his “coding boots” and taking the lead role within the HealthWare department. With a passion for client engagement and well-rounded products, he  is perfectly poised to balance and match the relationships with our numerous HealthWare customers and our expanding product portfolio. For over a decade Mark has worked with our flagship Health and Lifestyle applications, providing training and consultancy to clients as well as being part of the original development team. His work and experience working alongside Smoking Cessation Services has made him a valuable asset to Bionical and Customers alike.