New Healthcare Appointments at GfK Hamblin

GfK Martin Hamblin has announced the promotion of Martine Leroy-Sharman to General Manager of the UK-based Global HealthCare office. She has also been appointed to join GfK Martin Hamblin's board and will play an important role in the future direction of the company.

Stephen Grundy, Group General Manager, will now move into directing his full attention to building GfK Martin Hamblin's Healthcare business at an international level, developing and managing the company's strategic healthcare accounts. Stephen will continue to be an important member of both the GfK Martin Hamblin board and the GfK HealthCare strategic business unit board.

Leroy-Sharman joined GfK Martin Hamblin in August 2004 as a Divisional Director for Global HealthCare. She has been working in international healthcare research and consulting for 19 years with agencies including Isis Research, NOP Healthcare, Research International and Datamonitor Healthcare.

Commenting on her appointment, Kjell de Orr, Group Managing Director, praised Leroy-Sharman's 'rare combination of qualities - strong academic credentials with commercial astuteness and a natural management style. I look forward to working closely with her in the future'.

There have also been two other recent senior appointments within GfK Martin Hamblin Global Healthcare. The first is Saeed Mumtaz, who joins as Divisional Director from Novartis Pharmaceuticals. Mumtaz is a Spanish bilingual multinational having lived in the UK, Spain and Switzerland. He has 14 years pharmaceutical industry experience and recently worked for Novartis and Roche HQ's covering market research, analysis and forecasting.

The second appointment is Mike Mallinson, who joined the company at Christmas to establish a payer, pricing, reimbursement and market access practice within the Global HealthCare division. Mallinson has 25 years pharmaceutical industry experience, and has spent the last 3 years in establishing a domestic market access division for a global pricing policy and reimbursement consultancy. His payer and payer network covers the G8 industrialized markets.

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