Piano to Lead HighPoint Analytics Practice

In the US, life sciences and healthcare industry consultancy HighPoint has hired former Digitas Health exec Bret Piano to lead its Analytics practice.

HighPoint employs more than 650 consultants at is headquarters in Plymouth Meeting, PA, US offices in New Jersey, Boston, Tampa, California, and European HQ in Geneva, Switzerland.

Piano (pictured) joins with more than 22 years' life science industry experience. Most recently, he was VP of Strategy & Analytics at Digitas Health, responsible for all aspects of digital strategy and analytics at the Philadelphia office, while driving big data and innovation services across the group. Before this, he held similar roles at Aileron Solutions, inVentiv Health, and Health Products Research (HPR).

In his new position, Piano will be responsible for strategy and analytics services across the breadth of the HighPoint solutions portfolio. Mike Zubey, SVP of Life Sciences, comments: 'Life sciences and healthcare companies are two of the most data-rich industries on the planet. Bret has spent his career helping these companies unlock the inherent knowledge trapped in their applications and data warehouses. We are excited to have Bret join our team and begin helping our clients take advantage of their biggest asset, data'.

Web site: www.highpointsolutions.com .