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J A N U A R Y

• The 2018 CEO Awards winners are announced, congratulations to the winners from Ashfield:

• In the Quality category, The Gardiner-Caldwell Communications Haematology team, part of Ashfield Healthcare Communications.

• In the Partnership category, Sarah Burlew, Account Manager/Executive from Vynamic.

• In the Ingenuity category, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Head of Medical Affairs from CMIC Ashfield in Japan.

• Ashfield Healthcare Communications announced the graduation of the first cohort of Medical Writers from its pioneering Allegro training programme.

• Ashfield Healthcare Communications announced the creation of a new global alliance, joining forces with Argon Global Healthcare Network, one of the largest international networks of independent healthcare agencies, and with MIMS, Asia’s largest multichannel provider of drug information, medical communications, events management and marketing services.

• Al Pavucek was announced as new Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer for Ashfield Commercial and Patient Solutions globally.

• Ashfield Meetings & Events launched its Science of HCP Meetings guidebook, a helpful resource for pharmaceutical companies and event specialists aimed at engaging healthcare professionals at medical meetings and events.

• Ashfield Canada was included on the 2019 list of Best Workplaces™ for Inclusion.

• Carlos Peres was appointed General Manager of Ashfield Iberia.

• Ashfield Healthcare Communications presented East Cheshire Hospice with a cheque worth £3,455.34 from their fundraising efforts.

• An article authored by SmartAnalyst an Ashfield Advisory business, “Approaches targeting T regulatory cells in Autoimmune Diseases” was published in the International Biopharmaceutical Industry (IBI) journal.

F E B R U A R Y

• CMIC Ashfield Japan held a coffee morning and took part in a charity run in support of Rare Disease Day.

• Nagore Fernandez and Neil Doyle presented ‘The future of patient services’ at eyeforpharma Barcelona.

• Ashfield Commercial and Patient Solutions US launched Project Rev-e-new, with the goal to increase revenue and reduce unnecessary spend across their organisation by 2%.

• Ashfield Healthcare Communications UK held a Valentine’s Day event and raised £159.58 for local charity, Sands.

• March was Ovarian Cancer Awareness month and 11 of the SCIONIC Business Unit within Ashfield Healthcare Communications took on the challenge of walking 11,000 steps a day, and by the end of the month raised £786 for charity.

• Pegasus was awarded ‘Best Digital Marketing Campaign’ at the PRCA Digital Awards for their Skinspirational campaign and won the ‘Companion Animal Consumer Media Advertising Award’ for Advantage Combat Kid at the Vet Marketing Association Awards.

• Nyxeon was awarded the ‘Best International Marketing Campaign’ at the Vet Marketing Association Awards.

• World Down Syndrome Day saw employees from Ashfield Meetings & Events sporting odd socks in support.

• Pegasus was awarded two Influencer Marketing Awards - ‘Best Food and Drink campaign’ for their partnership with Holland & Barrett on The Wonder of Manuka and ‘Best Health Campaign’ for their Beneox Sleep campaign.

• Lorna Towndrow, Contact Centre Training and Operations Manager UK was awarded both the Future Leader award and the Outstanding Performer award at the UK Pf Awards.

• Natalie Siegel, joins the US Ashfield Meetings & Events Senior Leadership Team with a promotion to Account Director.

A P R I L

• MicroMass Communications, an Ashfield Healthcare Communications agency, celebrated 25 incredible years of expertise in human health behaviour, designing solutions across all therapeutic areas that improve patient and health outcomes by changing patient and provider behaviour.

• Vynamic, an Ashfield Advisory business, was recognised as one of the ‘Best Workplaces in Consulting and Professional Services’ by Great Place to Work® and FORTUNE.

• Ashfield Cares Macclesfield held their annual Easter Chicks event, raising £450 for Francis House Children’s Hospice by selling hand-knitted Easter chicks.

• Ashfield Cares Canada raised $610.90 for National Denim Day which supports the Cure Foundation for Breast Cancer.

• Pegasus raised £209 to split between The Clocktower Sanctuary and Survivors Network after hosting an after-work boozy bingo session.

• MicroMass Communications won Silver at the DTC Perspectives for ‘Best Disease State Education/Social Media’.

• Allegro members took up the Allegro challenge and had a bake sale that raised £254.28 for Francis House Children’s Hospice.

• We said goodbye to Steve Bainbridge, global Ashfield Commercial and Patient Solutions Finance Director after almost 20 years with Ashfield.

• SPARK THINKING, Ashfield Meetings & Events’ sister brand which delivers meetings and live event experiences to businesses outside the healthcare industry, updated the design of its website adding a ‘personal touch’ to its brand positioning.

• We announced the acquisitions of Putnam Associates and Incisive Health. Putnam Associates joined the Advisory division of Ashfield, and Incisive Health joined the Healthcare Communications division.

• Ashfield sites from around the world celebrated World Day for Cultural Diversity with many activities taking place across the company, one being the creation of a ‘diversitree’.

• James Atley, Andrew Marnoch and Mark Tunnicliff of our UK Commercial and Patient Solutions Business Analytics team won Analyst Team of the Year award at the 2019 BOBI awards.

• The STEM Marketing Charity Pool Tournament organised for a second consecutive year raised £235 for charity.

• Ashfield US held a plant sale to benefit’ Trees for the Future and raised $200.

• Ashfield’s head office in the UK enjoyed a five-a-side football game and raised £5,000 for Burton Albion Community Trust’s disability projects.

• Cambridge BioMarketing, an Ashfield Healthcare Communications agency, was awarded Gold for ‘advertising’ in the Hermes Awards for their Rare In Common initiative.

• Create NYC, an Ashfield Healthcare Communications agency, won in the speed category in partnership with the BMS Digital Hub team for efficient execution of label updates.

• The Allegro team from Ashfield Healthcare Communications UK took home the Gold award in the ‘Employee Engagement – Learning & Development’ category at the UK Employee Experience Awards.

• Ashfield US took part in ‘Escape the Room’ and raised $243 for Traumatic Brain Injury Awareness.

J U N E

• Our newsletter Inside celebrates its 4th birthday since being online.

• Pegasus took home two Golds and two Silvers at the Brand Film Festival awards for their work with Samaritans, Network Rail and British Transport Police.

• Ashfield Meetings & Events launched its Science of Healthcare Congresses white paper at an exclusive client evening reception in Chicago during one of the most prestigious and well-attended congresses for the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

• SPARK THINKING client, Jaguar Land Rover, was awarded two silver awards at the UK Employee Experience Awards 2019, for its Graduate and Apprentice Induction Programme, delivered by Ashfield Meetings & Events’ sister brand.

• STEM Healthcare UK kicked off its mental health campaign in the office with a bake sale to raise money for CALM.

J U LY

• George Esgro was appointed President of Global Business Development for Ashfield Commercial and Ashfield Patient Solutions.

• 19 STEM Healthcare employees chose to take part in the London Triathlon in order to raise money for the charity CALM, and managed to raise an incredible £10,749.

• Ashfield Healthcare Communications, MicroMass, Cambridge BioMarketing and Create NYC were all listed in the Top MM&M 100 Agency list.

• MM&M magazine awarded Micromass Communications with Best Behaviour Award which celebrates creativity, innovation and leadership in the healthcare marketing field.

• Cambridge BioMarketing was awarded Platinum and Gold awards for ‘Website Overall’ in the Hermes Awards for their work with Kyowa.

• Vynamic CEO Jeff Dill featured in The Wall Street Journal in an article about how zzzMail helps address workplace burnout.

• Ashfield Meetings & Events designed and delivered a booth for Merck and was awarded silver at the World Exhibition Stand Awards for the ‘Best Stand in a Healthcare Event’.

• Christopher Lamb and Katherine St John from the Ashfield Cares Glasgow committee completed the 26-mile Rob Roy hike and raised £1,731 for Macmillan Cancer Support.

• A group of workers from Ashfield Maidenhead, walked over 100 miles and raised £949 for Target Ovarian Cancer which was fund matched by Ashfield Healthcare Communications bringing their total to just under £1,200.

• STEM Healthcare held an international lunch with employees, making delicious dishes from all over the world and raising £121 for the Runnymede Trust.

• STEM Healthcare appointed James Emberton as Global HR Director and member of their SET.

S E P T E M B E R

• Cambridge BioMarketing named Ben Beckley as their new President.

• The SmartAnalyst website was relaunched, which has helped convey their key messages more clearly and effectively.

• STEM Healthcare appoints Daisaburo Sakurai as President & Representative Director of Japan.

• We said goodbye to Julian Tompkins, President of Ashfield Commercial and Clinical, Eleanor Garvey, Head of Quality and Compliance for UDG Healthcare and Rob Wood, President of Ashfield and Advisory.

• Greg Flynn is promoted to President of Ashfield Commercial and Patient Solutions.

• We welcome Colin Stanley as the new President of Ashfield Advisory.

• Galliard and Nyxeon took part in the Woburn Abbey triathlon relay in order to raise money for their charity of the year, Children with Cancer Fund, and raised an amazing $2,500.

• MicroMass Communications wins ‘Best Interactive Marketing Award’ at the PM360 Trailblazer Awards.

• The Ashfield Meetings & Events team won an award with J&J Vision for their contribution to J&J’s ‘Success Through Education Programme’.

• Ashley Cox joined SmartAnalyst as Head of Business Development for Europe.

• SmartAnalyst was featured in a Q&A with the Manufacturing Chemist journal on the topic of “Future market dynamics and opportunities in Immuno-Oncology”.

• STEM Healthcare office donated time on their three Charity days – volunteering at Mudchute City farm.

• STEM Healthcare held MacMillan Coffee Afternoon and raised £113.

• A group of happy employees in the US attend two days of food for thought at our final Inspire Leadership programme of 2019.

• A poster submitted by SmartAnalyst “Rising dependence on anti-depressants among adults in the US: A study based on NHANES from 2005 to 2016” was selected for a Research Poster Presentation Award at ISPOR Europe 2019 and received “Top 10%” ribbon.

• Ashfield Healthcare Communications hosted a Hearty Healthy Lunch and Workshop at their employee engagement speaker series with Darcelle Dieudonne.

• Employees marked World Pancreatic Cancer day by wearing purple.

• Pat Metzler was announced as Global Head of IT for Ashfield Commercial and Patient Solutions.

• Three Pegasus employees abseiled down the British Airways i360 in Brighton and raised a fantastic £1620 for charity.

• Ashfield Insight & Performance and Ashfield Healthcare Communications won the PMEA ‘Excellence in Capability Development’ award for their ‘A fresh approach to data training for MSLs’ programme.

M A R C H

• Congratulations to The Great Ashfield Race Off team who together, on foot or on wheels, completed 106 miles and raised over £3,000 for the Derbyshire, Leicestershire & Rutland Air Ambulance service.

• Ashfield Meetings & Events was named as one of Special Events Magazine / website’s ‘Top 50 Event Companies’ alongside sister agency SPARK THINKING.

• Ashfield Meetings & Events moved from its Ivyland location, to join colleagues in the Fort Washington office in Pennsylvania.

• Ashfield Meetings & Events and SPARK THINKING teams joined Ashfield division colleagues at Ashfield House in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire in the UK.

• Ashfield Meetings & Events, together with AstraZeneca and the Scottish Event Campus won C&IT’s Team-building Event of the Year’.

• Vynamic was named one of 2019’s Best Small Workplaces by Great Place to Work® and FORTUNE.

• MicroMass Communications wins PM360 Trailblazer Award for the programme Atopic Dermatitis Insider.

• Vynamic was a proud co-sponsor of The Bee Foundation’s 6th annual Honey Bash Gala supporting brain aneurysm research and awareness.

• Pegasus’ Network Rail & British Transport police team won Best Use of Planning, Strategy & Evaluation at the PR Week UK awards and were highly commended for Best Public Sector Campaign.

• Vynamic Executive Gemma Pfister named one of Consulting Magazine’s 2019 Global Leaders in Consulting – Excellence in Innovation.

• The full 150+ person Vynamic team came together at Philadelphia’s Mann Music Center to celebrate Summit Up Fall 2019. The “Thriving Like a Rockstar” theme was brought to life through a thought-provoking discussion about success, happiness, and well-being.

• Vynamic announced the launch of new Trending Health podcast formerly known as Hi 5.

• Nicola Burns announces she will be leaving Ashfield after 15 years. Jason Erickson was appointed as her successor as Managing Director of Ashfield Meetings & Events, alongside his role leading our Canadian business.

• MicroMass Communications launched #FtheList, a campaign to raise the awareness of the importance of self-care to encourage people to share how they are finding time to incorporate self-care into their busy day.

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• We announced the acquisition of Canale Communications, an award-winning San Diego-based strategic communications agency, providing corporate communications, public relations, investor relations, and creative services to life sciences companies including biotech, biopharma, digital health and genomics. Canale will join the Ashfield Healthcare Communications network.

• In 2019, we have grown by 200 new employees and welcomed three new companies to our family in Incisive Health, Putnam Associates and CanaleComm.

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