Nominees for The Pharmaguy Social Media Pioneer Award

The Pharmaguy Social Media Award (learn more about it here) recognizes excellence in social media marketing leadership. Candidates for this prestigious award must work or have worked within an FDA-regulated pharmaceutical, medical device, or biotech company when he or she pioneered in social media marketing or non-branded communications or was an advocate for such. The Pharmaguy Social Media Pioneer Award is sponsored by ExL Pharma and the 4th Annual Digital Pharma East Conference. Winners will be announced at the conference in October, 2010.



Here's the alphabetical listing of people who have been nominated. More names will be added as the nominations continue. Please add your nominations and/or votes here.

• Alex Butler, Digital Strategy and Social Media Manager at Janssen-Cilag
• Colin Foster, formerly Director of Social Media at Novartis
• Kai Gait, Digital Commerce Marketing Manager at GlaxoSmithKline
• Mark Gaydos, Senior Director, U.S. Regulatory Affairs Marketed Products at sanofi-aventis.
• Shwen Gwee leads Digital Strategy and Social Media within the Marketing department at Vertex Pharmaceuticals
• Rob Halper, Director, Video Communication at Johnson & Johnson
• Rene Hansen, Global Director of Business Transformation, UCB Pharma
• Melissa Katz, formerly Senior Director of Corporate Communications at Centocor, Inc.
• Ray Kerins, Head, Global Media Relations at Pfizer
• Sabine Kostevc, Head of Corporate Internet and Social Media at Roche
• Jim Lefevere, Global Group Manager, Commercial Marketing at Roche Diagnostics
• Rich Meyer, former Senior eMarketing Manager at Medtronic-Diabetes
• Gary Monk, Product Manager (Marketing) at Janssen Cilag
• Marc Monseau, Director, Media Relations at Johnson & Johnson
• Ambre Morley, responsible for public relations and issues management of Novo Nordisk’s insulin portfolio
• Michael Parks, former Vice President of Corporate Communications at Centocor
• Brad Pendergraph, Manager, Multi-Channel Marketing at Novartis Pharmaceuticals
• Cynthia Phillips, Senior Director of Regulatory Labeling and Promotional Compliance at Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
• John Pugh, Director of Corporate Communication/External Communications, Boehringer Ingelheim
• Sandra M. Shpilberg, Senior Director of Marketing at BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc.
• Len Starnes, Head of Digital Marketing & Sales, General Medicine at Bayer Schering Pharma
• Dennis Urbaniak, VP U.S. Diabetes and former VP of Innovation and New Customer Channels at Sanofi-Aventis