We do what we do in a culture of curiosity and creativity. But the backbone of our success comes from a combination of co-creation, process, and experience. Our relentless commitment to seeing every project with fresh creative eyes makes us stronger and allows our brands to breakthrough in highly saturated markets like technology and consumer goods, or gain approval, in highly-regulated industries like pharmaceuticals and healthcare.
Leadership
With over 30 years of experience, his trained eye leverages the Syneos Health network of Commercial and Clinical resources for our clients. Joe’s creative and strategic thinking paired with undeniable curiosity for brand challenges foster an engaged culture that is focused on delivering premier results. Prior to joining Addison Whitney, Joe worked across the inVentiv Health Commercial Division, most recently as Chief Strategy Officer for the organization, and he led GSW, a Syneos Health award-winning advertising agency. He began his career with Bristol-Myers Squibb, overseeing everything from brand management to global business development.
Jamie’s innovative approach to workshop facilitation and brand storytelling has benefitted companies managing brand expansion into local markets or line extensions. Before joining Addison Whitney, he founded and managed a creative brand consultancy, Brandism, with international and regional brands located in RTP, North Carolina. Jamie is also an adjunct professor for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Journalism.
For over a decade he has led global branding projects for global companies and brands that are seeking the right approach (the first time). He thrives in challenging brand development and brand implementation projects and approaches each with a seasoned viewpoint.
Recognized by industry leaders in the consumer and technology space like PepsiCo, Panasonic and Bausch Health, his well-rounded skillset and industry connections ensure your projects have perspective. Another problem he enjoys solving pertains to what he tries to master on the grill.
With that, she brings incredible depth to our already industry-leading regulatory knowledge and expertise. Over 20 years she has reviewed thousands of names for submission to FDA, European Medicines Agency, and Health Canada. She is skilled in all areas of medication safety, especially as error prevention applies to assisting the pharmaceutical and biotech industries in name safety testing, package label assessments and other risk management and regulatory issues. Nancy resides in sunny South Florida with her family and her extensive nail polish, cosmetics and fragrance collections.
She also ensures our business development outreach is meaningful, on brand and aligned with strategy. Thanks to her, we are all ready with the latest and greatest original content to educate and support our connections. Through her concentrated time and energy, we are able to equip people internally and externally with innovative brand knowledge.
Instrumental in building our powerhouse business development team, their training and management allow us to best identify client needs to meet and exceed expectations. As the self-proclaimed “brand gatekeeper” she always makes sure that our team is having fun when working or at happy hour. She is one of our many Floridian team members so you can rest assured she knows exactly how to keep the entertainment going.
He began his journey with Addison Whitney in 2006 as a Senior Consultant. He was a founding partner of CannonCassidy—a pharmaceutical, medical device and consumer branding firm—and rejoined Addison Whitney in 2020 as Senior Vice President and Managing Director to expand our business and strengthen our team of branders. After nearly 30 years building brands, Bill brings process innovation, creative perspective and best practices leadership to Addison Whitney. Know-how that helps us create brands that matter!
Through managing the Account Services team and leading client teams through our process on a daily basis, she has shaped the course of our business and implemented best practices for our teams. Her in-depth regulatory knowledge and expert organizational skills allows her to keep clients on schedule, on strategy and on budget. Over the course of 10 years she has become a trusted branding and naming partner among pharmaceutical clients like Gilead, Bristol-Myers Squibb and AbbVie. She’s even written 20 regulatory submission documents in only two weeks – an Addison Whitney record that has yet to be broken.
In doing so, he's led diverse teams to overcome complex challenges and identify opportunities to achieve their goals. You could say he's seen it all when it comes to sales and marketing. Through his previous roles as Senior Marketing Director at Eli Lilly and National Sales Director at Syneos Health, Tom has developed a keen understanding on what it takes to successfully launch new products and effectively promote products at every stage of their life cycle. In this regard in particular, Tom offers a unique perspective and skill set among agency brand marketers. When he isn’t leading global branding and strategy initiatives, you’ll find Tom traveling, working out or enjoying live music.
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If you value growth and learning, thrive in a fast-paced environment and want to join a fun, tight-knit, highly intelligent and motivated team then you’ll fit right in with us.
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