If you ever wonder what it means to be a PM360 ELITE ( E xceptional L eaders, I nnovators, T ransformers, and E ntrepreneurs), then I have one word for you: Best. Don’t worry about the acronym (though it is cool if you can remember that as well). These people are simply the best. They are the best at launching products, starting companies, mining and understanding data, cultivating new talent, navigating the digital world, mentoring the next-generation, developing groundbreaking strategies, building technological achievements, growing revenue, coming up with envy-inducing creative, and leading—and transforming—companies. They are just the best the industry has the offer.
That is why we couldn’t be more thrilled to share the winners of our 5 th Annual ELITE Awards. And that starts with the person who stands out the most out of all of this year’s winners—our Uber ELITE David Spetzler, MS, MBA, PhD, President and Chief Scientific Officer of Caris Life Sciences. As a leading innovator in molecular science, David is helping to develop proprietary advanced technologies to fulfill the promise of personalized treatment for those with cancer.
As the keynote speaker at this year’s ELITE Awards Event, you can hear more about how David is advancing personalized cancer medicine on Tuesday, July 16 th at Manhattan’s 230 FIFTH. But you can also enjoy the company of all our other winners on a rooftop overlooking the NYC skyline. To find out why you won’t want to miss the chance to meet these ELITE people, read all about them on the following pages.
The ELITE Awards honors people in the following 17 categories:
Creative Directors: Marketers known for their daring creative and jealousy-inducing campaigns. Data Miners: Individuals who specialize in analytics and can turn hordes of numbers and research into actionable insight. Digital Crusaders: Those who advance digital channel applications or platforms to transform marketing and/or company operations. Disrupters: Fearless individuals who disrupt the status quo to revolutionize the industry. Entrepreneurs: Visionary risk-takers who develop new companies to answer unmet needs. Launch Experts: Marketers with significant success in bringing a new drug to market or in revitalizing markets for an older drug. Leaders of the Future: Up-and-comers who display the characteristics of an emerging leader. Marketing Teams: Teams that have achieved great marketing success together as a group. Master Educators: People who revolutionize the way patients/doctors learn and absorb information. Mentors: The role models others aspire to emulate. Patient Advocates: Those who make sure patients’ voices are heard and needs are met. PR Gurus: Communication experts who are masters at spreading news and good publicity. Sales MVPs: Company sales leaders who do an outstanding job of building revenue and nurturing company growth. Strategists: People with a sixth sense for what works—and the ability to predict what the industry needs to do to remain relevant. Talent Acquisition Leaders: The industry’s top job recruiters and HR executives. Tech-know Geeks: Innovators who spearhead technological breakthroughs that reshape the industry. Transformational Leaders: People who change the way companies operate. The 2019 ELITE Winners are:
Uber ELITE ELITE 2019 Uber Winner David Spetzler of Caris Life Sciences Read more Creative Directors ELITE 2019 Creative Director Jody Van Swearingen of AbelsonTaylor Read more ELITE 2019 Creative Director Marinella Georgino of precisioneffect Read more ELITE 2019 Creative Director Mike Nuckols of VIVO Agency Read more Data Miners ELITE 2019 Data Miner Fabio Gratton of inVibe Labs Read more ELITE 2019 Data Miner Ilya Vedrashko of Syneos Health Read more ELITE 2019 Data Miner Jeff Catlin of Lexalytics Read more ELITE 2019 Data Miner Justin Freid of CMI/Compas Read more ELITE 2019 Data Miner Louis Sanquini of Healthagen, CVS Health Read more ELITE 2019 Data Miner Whitney Kemper of Crossix Read more Digital Crusaders ELITE 2019 Digital Crusader AJ Triano of GSW, a Syneos Health company Read more ELITE 2019 Digital Crusader Alexandra McMenomy of Pfizer Read more ELITE 2019 Digital Crusader Don Feiler of Calcium Read more ELITE 2019 Digital Crusader Jeordan Legon of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Read more ELITE 2019 Digital Crusader Kira Pole-Ramirez of Pfizer, Inc. Read more ELITE 2019 Digital Crusader Leslie C Amendola of Janssen Oncology Read more ELITE 2019 Digital Crusader Leyla Shamayeva of Verywell Read more ELITE 2019 Digital Crusader Mary Ray of MyHealthTeams Read more ELITE 2019 Digital Crusader Michael Ruta of AMAG Pharmaceuticals Read more ELITE 2019 Digital Crusader Tara Gill of Bristol-Myers Squibb Read more Disrupters ELITE 2019 Disrupter Alisa Shakarian of Cambridge BioMarketing Read more ELITE 2019 Disrupter Daniel Seewald of Deliberate Innovation Read more ELITE 2019 Disrupter Dwight Williams of Genentech Read more ELITE 2019 Disrupter Kate Steiner of AbbVie Read more ELITE 2019 Disrupter Natalie McDonald of Create NYC Read more ELITE 2019 Disrupter Phil Rackliffe of kaléo Read more ELITE 2019 Disrupter Pro Bose of The Bloc Read more ELITE 2019 Disrupter Robert Sarrazin of GSK Consumer Healthcare Read more ELITE 2019 Disrupter Tara Balboni of Snow Companies Read more ELITE 2019 Disrupter Thad L. Bench, Sr. of BW Health Group Read more Entrepreneurs ELITE 2019 Entrepreneur Daniel W. Weinstein of Oshi Health, Inc. Read more ELITE 2019 Entrepreneur Faruk Capan of Intouch Group Read more ELITE 2019 Entrepreneur Janet Kosloff of InCrowd, Inc. Read more ELITE 2019 Entrepreneur Laura Shafner of AiCure Read more ELITE 2019 Entrepreneur Sam Glassenberg of Level Ex Read more ELITE 2019 Entrepreneur Vimal Narayanan of MedTrix Healthcare LLC Read more ELITE 2019 Entrepreneurs Parth Khanna, Kumar Erramilli, and Kapil Kalra of ACTO Read more Launch Experts ELITE 2019 Launch Expert Amol Luktuke of AbbVie Read more ELITE 2019 Launch Expert Amy Williams of Avanos Medical Read more ELITE 2019 Launch Expert Andrea Geppert of Strongbridge Biopharma Read more ELITE 2019 Launch Expert Joe Cappello of AmerisourceBergen Read more ELITE 2019 Launch Expert Sally Collins of Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Read more ELITE 2019 Launch Expert Shannyn A. Smith of Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Ltd Read more ELITE 2019 Launch Expert Todd Miller of Ortho Dermatologics Read more ELITE 2019 Launch Experts Wing Yeung and Pegah Moghaddam of Genentech Read more Leaders of the Future ELITE 2019 Leader of the Future Axelle Basso Bondini of Healix Global Read more ELITE 2019 Leader of the Future Jonathan Rogers of Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation Read more ELITE 2019 Leader of the Future Justin Khalifa of Beghou Consulting Read more ELITE 2019 Leader of the Future Kelly Mizer of Sarepta Therapeutics Read more ELITE 2019 Leader of the Future Marian Rice of AbbVie Read more ELITE 2019 Leader of the Future Tameka M. Nicholson of AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals Read more Marketing Teams ELITE 2019 Marketing Team AMAG Pharmaceuticals Digital Engagement and Women’s Health Patient Marketing Teams Read more ELITE 2019 Marketing Team Butler/Till Health Group Otezla Digital Team Read more ELITE 2019 Marketing Team CooperSurgical, Inc. Paragard Marketing Team Read more ELITE 2019 Marketing Team COSENTYX Rheumatology Marketing Team Read more ELITE 2019 Marketing Team Edwards Lifesciences Transcatheter Heart Valve Global Marketing Team Read more ELITE 2019 Marketing Team Lucemyra Marketing Team Read more ELITE 2019 Marketing Team Managed Markets Marketing—Psychiatry Team Read more ELITE 2019 Marketing Team Pfizer-BMS Alliance Payer Marketing Team Read more Master Educators ELITE 2019 Master Educator Andrea Heslin Smiley of VMS BioMarketing Read more ELITE 2019 Master Educator Benjamin Houghtaling of Wunderman Thompson Health Read more ELITE 2019 Master Educator Margaret Berg of Core-Rx Communications Read more ELITE 2019 Master Educator Paul Kudlow of TrendMD Read more Mentors ELITE 2019 Mentor Angela Tenuta of Intouch Group Read more ELITE 2019 Mentor Chadi Nabhan of Aptitude Health Read more ELITE 2019 Mentor Greg Rice of Katalyst – part of the Klick Family Read more ELITE 2019 Mentor John Jaeger of Decision Resources Group Read more Patient Advocates ELITE 2019 Patient Advocate Brian Greenberg of Chronically Better You and Remedy Health Media Read more ELITE 2019 Patient Advocate Julie Cosgrove of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Read more PR Gurus ELITE 2019 PR Guru Ken Li of CG Life Read more ELITE 2019 PR Guru Nicole Grubner of Finn Partners Read more Sales MVPs ELITE 2019 Sales MVP Chris Dowd of ConnectiveRx Read more ELITE 2019 Sales MVP David Shronk of Health Union Read more ELITE 2019 Sales MVP Marcie Goodale of Continuum Clinical Read more Strategists ELITE 2019 Strategist Andrea Palmer of Publicis Health Media Read more ELITE 2019 Strategist Ian Marks of GSK Consumer Healthcare Read more ELITE 2019 Strategist Jackie Kent of Medidata Solutions Read more ELITE 2019 Strategist Janet Reimund of CSL Behring Read more ELITE 2019 Strategist Leslie Jamison of Klick Health Read more ELITE 2019 Strategist Lisa Talbot of Marina Maher Communications (MMC) and RXMOSAIC Health Read more ELITE 2019 Strategist Lori Holland-Hancock of Merck & Co. Inc. Read more ELITE 2019 Strategist Marla Kessler of IQVIA Read more ELITE 2019 Strategist Michael Zilligen of Ogilvy Health Read more ELITE 2019 Strategist Rachel Hansard of Sanofi Genzyme Read more ELITE 2019 Strategist Sagar Anisingaraju of Saama Technologies Read more ELITE 2019 Strategist Stacy Patterson of QBFox Healthcomm Read more Talent Acquisition Leaders ELITE 2019 Talent Acquisition Leader Deborah Hankin of W2O Group Read more ELITE 2019 Talent Acquisition Leader Lisa Tamborello of Elevate Read more Tech-know Geeks ELITE 2019 Tech-Know Geek David Guthrie of PatientPoint Read more ELITE 2019 Tech-Know Geek David Sakadelis of Heartbeat Read more ELITE 2019 Tech-Know Geek Matt Irwin of Confideo Labs Read more Transformational Leaders ELITE 2019 Transformational Leader Akil Hunte of Neurocrine Biosciences Read more ELITE 2019 Transformational Leader Aneil Batra of Novo Nordisk Read more ELITE 2019 Transformational Leader Frank Sanders of Sage Therapeutics Read more ELITE 2019 Transformational Leader Jennifer Fillman of Cardinal Health Specialty Solutions Read more ELITE 2019 Transformational Leader Kristin Ficks Ainswoth of TESARO Read more ELITE 2019 Transformational Leader Mike Cunnion of Remedy Health Media Read more ELITE 2019 Transformational Leader Shaun Urban of The Inception Company Read more ELITE 2019 Transformational Leader Sherri Wilkins of Carling Communications Read more ELITE 2019 Transformational Leader Thomas Gad of Y-mAbs Read more
