Andrew Hosking
Andrew has been Managing Director of Go To Wo Consulting since 1994, a full strategic graphic design and web based company. In 2003, he created a specialised communications company – et al health communications, offering a broad cross-section of services from design, marketing, medical writing and training through to CPD and education for the pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device and healthcare industries.
With over 20 years industry experience working on a variety of cardiovascular, dermatology, respiratory and neurology portfolios plus natural remedies such as homoeopathy, Andrew has carved a niche market offering a unique, personalised service which is highly sought after.
With the adoption of research and market segmentation tools such as typology, he finds strategic analysis and integration essential to address the current industry changes. Andrew travels to New York to keep abreast of upcoming trends through design conferences plus international affiliates he has aligned with over the years to offer the latest marketing and creative opportunities to his clients.
Andrew has been a PRIME Awards judge since 2006 assessing marketing and advertising entries.
Anthony Bonnici
Anthony is Managing Director of Move Mountains. Prior to starting Move Mountains, he worked for 13 years at Eli Lilly pharmaceuticals, starting as a sales representative age 21 and moving up the corporate ladder into sales management and senior marketing roles. In 2004, Anthony made the life decision to leave the pharmaceutical world and focus on his passion of motivating & inspiring others.
Anthony started Move Mountains in January 2005, helping companies motivate their staff to perform at a higher level and to build stronger team bonds. Through Move Mountains, Anthony has worked with over 12,000 people in just 6 years of operation, and has worked in 4 continents around the world. Anthony has worked with most of the major global pharmaceutical companies and has also worked with other blue chip companies including the CBA, McDonalds, AMP, Westpac & Sony. Move Mountains has programs ranging from 1 hour to 1 week, all aimed at improving what we do and how we do it.
Doctor Kendra Sundquist
Kendra is the Manager of Supportive Care Development for the Cancer Council NSW. She is responsible for developing evidence based new interventions and information to provide psychosocial support for people with cancer and their families. She has a Doctorate in Education and a Master’s Degree in Health Education. Kendra is also a member of the NSW Medical Board (appointed by the Minister for Health) and the Australian Medical Council. She has published three books for consumers and several papers in refereed health journals.
Peter Doyle
Peter Doyle is an experienced international marketer with a long and distinguished career within the pharmaceutical, healthcare and communications industries. He has been closely involved in the establishment and growth of major companies in the pharmaceutical and communications industries.
After establishing Peter Doyle Advertising in 1987 it was purchased by one of the world’s foremost specialist healthcare advertising agencies, Medicus Group International in 1994. Peter stayed on with Medicus as President Asia, Pacific and was responsible for the profitable performance of six divisions of the company in Japan, Korea, Singapore and Australia. He has worked for clients including most of the major international pharmaceutical companies as well as non-prescription (over the counter) medicines manufacturers. He was a member of the US Board of Medicus Group International and involved in the overall direction and strategic planning for the future growth of Medicus worldwide.
Prior to his career in advertising Peter held senior positions in Marketing, Business Development and General Management within the Pharmaceutical industry, both locally and internationally.
Peter is now consulting to various, communication companies and healthcare marketers in relation to their, and their customers, overall strategic planning.
Mark Wayland
Mark Wayland is an authority on pharmaceutical sales coaching. He specialises in helping sales managers coach with clarity, confidence, and conviction. He is also the Managing Director of the Last 3 Feet; a consultancy that works exclusively within the pharma / healthcare industry.
His passion for sales coaching and sales management developed when he worked for Pfizer Australia as their Group Training Manager, where he was responsible for launching and driving coaching skills into the business culture of the sales group. Working with sales managers means that he also deals with Performance Management, Leadership, and Sales Excellence issues.
Mark has worked within the pharma industry for over 21 years, the last 8 in his consultancy. He has worked extensively with various Australian and international sales management and sales teams to develop and drive their professional development initiatives.
As well as being a judge of the PRIME awards in sales he is also the Convener of the Australian Pharmaceutical Senior Sales Leadership Group.
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Phil Brown
Phil Brown was, until recently, Chairman of Curtis Jones & Brown, after being a partner and Creative Director of the agency for 21 years. His work has been recognised by AWARD, the Clios, the Globals, London International Advertising Awards and the New York festivals. Apart from helping to create some of Australia’s landmark pharma ad campaigns, his greatest satisfaction has been involvement in developing careers of many healthcare communications people who have gone on to become stars in their field.
Dimity Pond
Professor Pond is Professor of General Practice and Head of the Discipline of General Practice at the University of Newcastle. She teaches all years of the undergraduate Bachelor of Medicine course at the University of Newcastle and is also an occasional teacher of GP registrars in training. She delivers talks and other educational activities at conferences and community events and supervises research higher degree students. Professor Pond won awards for her outstanding contribution to student learning in 2007.
Malcolm Dawes
Malcolm Dawes is a highly respected and sought after organisational performance consultant with a keen interest in sales and leadership development. In particular he is a recognised expert in helping people understand how to increase their interaction effectiveness when managing people and situations.
In 1987 Malcolm’s nursing qualifications and experience lead him into the role of Medical Representative for pharmaceutical company Sanofi UK Ltd. (now sanofi aventis). For the next eight years Malcolm held roles in Marketing, Sales Management and Training with Sanofi.
In 1992 he was appointed to the position of Regional Training Manager at Innovex UK and later headed Management Development following further Sales Management responsibility.
In 2000 Malcolm was promoted to Head of Training for Quintiles & Innovex for Australia/New Zealand and appointed to the Executive Management Team. This role also involved the management and implementation of a major 2 year project across 14 countries in Asia. Malcolm held this role for almost 4 years and during that time he became a client of dta WORLDWIDE.
Established in 1982, dta WORLDWIDE has clients in numerous countries and a wide range of industries. The company specialises in the many diverse behavioural factors that produce high performing individuals who influence organisational success.This is done through state of the art performance development techniques in disciplines such as, Assessment, Leadership, Sales Superiority, Interaction Effectiveness and Emotional Intelligence.
In 2003 Malcolm returned to the UK to set up dta there and established a number of Blue Chip companies as his clients. January 2006 saw Malcolm return to Australia to become Managing Director of dta WORLDWIDE. In July 2008, Malcolm purchased dta and its parent company which continues to offer state of the art development techniques including eLearning and blended learning to businesses around the world through the partner network.
He has published research on leadership along with a number of articles on sales excellence. He has also written on sales leadership for the book ‘Emerging Trends in Professional Selling’ to be published in June 2011. Malcolm has appeared on the internet TV channel “The Profitability Channel” as well as presenting on sales and leadership in a number of countries around the world. Malcolm has been a judge for the sales categories of the PRIME (Pharmaceutical Research Innovation and Marketing Excellence) Awards for six years.
Greg Turnbull
Greg is currently the Communications Director, Pharmacy Guild of Australia
Greg has over 30 years media experience with he previous role being Executive Producer – Network News, TEN Network- Sydney. He was in charge of TEN’s networked national news broadcasts, Early, Morning and Late and also EP of TEN’s political interview program Meet the Press.
From 2002 to 2007, Greg was a Political Reporter for TEN Network, Federal Political Bureau in Parliament House Canberra, where he worked with Political Editor Paul Bongiorno. He was also Co-host of Meet the Press, the Sunday morning political interview program.
Greg has held senior roles in Government such as Senior Media Adviser to Kim Beazley, Leader of the Opposition and Senior Media Adviser to Prime Minister Paul Keating.
Alex Gosman
As a long term Canberra resident, Alex began his career with in the Commonwealth Public Service, primarily on working on industry policy issues from 1975 to 1990. From 1990 to 1999 Alex was the Executive Director at the Australian Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers Association (AEEMA). During Alex’s tenure the Association doubled in size and was recognised as a highly influential association.
In early 1999, Alex joined Ericsson Australia as General Manager, Government and Regulatory with a focus on spectrum allocation and industry and research policy.
Alex joined GlaxoSmithKline Australia in September 2002,as Healthcare Environment Director, where he managed a team with responsibility for GSK’s interaction with Government on regulatory, pricing, product approvals and policy matters. Alex was appointed External Affairs Advisor, GSKA in 2009.
Alex established Alex Gosman Consulting in March 2010 with a focus on policy and Government relations work in the areas of health and IT as well as Association management.
Alex joined CPR as a Senior Adviser in its Canberra Office on 10 January 2011
Alex has high developed analytical, relationship management and communications skills.
Alex holds a Bachelor of Economics Degree from the Australian National University (ANU), and is a keen triathlete.
Dr David Kingston MC Bs, BPharm, BSc
Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Pharmaceutical Medicine and Drug Development, School of Medicine, UNSW.
Consultant, George Institute for Global Health, University of Sydney
Director, DJ Medical Pty, Ltd, Consulting Practice
David was formerly Medical Director and Deputy Managing Director for Roche Products Sydney, from 1997-2010 and Medical Director, Roche Products from 1981-2010. He was a member of several Medicines Australia committees over the years such as APPA and ARCS. David completed Advanced Management Programs at both Macquarie University and Columbia University USA and participated in numerous successful GP & Specialist product launches over the last 30 years.
Scott Knowles
After 16 years working in the UK, Australia and Asia Pacific, Scott Knowles has gained a wealth of medical communications experience in a variety of environments. These range from academic science publishing through to pharmaceutical media relations, medical writing and medical symposia production. This led Scott to specialise in medical education where he held various project director positions with some of Australia’s most well known healthcare communication agencies. Motivated by a passion for balanced and quality content, he has helped develop, manage and implement an extensive portfolio of medical education programs.
More recently Scott has diversified into the world of Healthcare IT. He is currently a business analyst with Health Communication Network (HCN) where he has nurtured a keen interest in the practical application of healthcare informatics and medicines information systems to the point of care. Whilst at HCN Scott has scoped numerous Healthcare IT applications for use in the commercial sector and government state health departments.
Scott has an honours degree in Chemistry, a post-graduate qualification in Journalism and was an RACGP Accredited Provider of QA&CPD programs from 2001 – 2007.
