With 25 years of senior leadership experience in life sciences, Jan brings MDoutlook clients extensive expertise in healthcare business and strategic marketing, ThoughtLeader identification and engagement, business consulting, organizational partnerships and medical education. Jan is a recognized leader, an innovative and strategic thinker who intimately appreciates clients’ strategic needs and opportunities, and understands how to best serve these with effective and efficient tactical solutions. He has managed and overseen hundreds of client projects in his career, and to continued client praise. Jan leads the team of MDoutlook to deliver actionable disease intelligence with ThoughtLeader insight. Prior to establishing MDoutlook, Jan spent 5 years in increasing leadership positions at Imedex, an accredited medical education company. In his most recent role as President, Jan drove the integration of The American School of Oncology and Imedex into one organization focused on producing global continuing education in oncology, hematology, psychiatry, gastroenterology, infectious diseases, cardiology, and urology. Previously, Jan led a team of consultants at Cambridge Pharma Consultancy, a subsidiary of IMS Health. As Engagement Director, Jan provided international strategic consulting to pharmaceutical and biotech companies in the areas of M&A, licensing, and marketing strategy. He was Consultant for Robert Pino & Company in the Netherlands, a subsidiary of Berenschot, focused on product strategy and responsible for establishing its healthcare practice. Jan started his career as Project Manager with Altana in the sales of cardiovascular products before joining Organon as International Product Manager. At Organon, Jan was responsible for the commercialization of psychiatry products, and directed the global launch of Remeron leading to $1b+ in annual sales. Jan holds a Masters degree in Medicine from University of Amsterdam, and MBA / MBI degrees from Rotterdam School of Management / University of Michigan. He resides in Atlanta, GA.

Ian is an accomplished commercial professional with business development, sales and marketing and marketing research experience forged in a global environment. With more than 20 years healthcare experience, Ian has a strong focus on strategy, consultancy, customer-centricity, satisfaction and implementation where he established long lasting business relationships with clients representing pharma, med-tech and hospital settings. Ian’s work has included assignments across many therapeutic indications involving consultancy to client strategic & tactical planning with impactful intelligence and research gathered across healthcare professionals, payers, patients and other key stakeholders; guiding patient-centred strategy direction and value propositions; implementation of educational and supportive patient solutions; behavioural profiling and digital health. His grounding also stems from working across other sectors particularly the consumer market sphere including international consultancy in societal trends/forecasting, psychological profiling, branding, messaging etc (amongst an array of research focused exposure) for major companies (automotive, beverage, fmcg, technology & retail), ad agencies and PR firms. Ian has worked for a number of firms including GfK, NOP, Market Measures, Roper Starch, AGB / Kantar and Maritz. Ian brings his diverse knowledge, understanding and a holistic viewpoint to enrich, add value and drive CX excellence across all your MDoutlook interactions. Ian is based in the UK.

John is an experienced bio-pharmaceutical professional who understands the importance of customer relationships and the impact that insights have on strategic decision-making. His many diverse experiences have helped him manage a wide-array of project initiatives - with expertise in global bio-pharmaceutical and device marketing, market research, business intelligence experience. Specific areas of interest and experience include loyalty and customer relationship management, e-Business strategies and solution development, master data management, data integration, project management and clinical investigator management. With over 30 years of pharmaceutical and healthcare industry experience – including 20 years in market research – and with a career that includes both client-side (Merck and J&J) and supplier (IMS and GfK) roles, John has brought his 360-degree perspective to many initiatives. Delighting his clients by exceeding expectations is John’s focus. To ensure such an outcome, he believes in communicating routinely, clarifying his clients’ business issues and challenges, providing progress and status updates, and delivering the solutions that meet their specific objectives. John holds in BA in Economics from Villanova University and resides in Pennsylvania.

Based in Basel (Switzerland), Justin has over 20 years experience working in Oncology on some of the largest brands in pharmaceuticals; diagnostics and devices, having held senior strategy positions with Roche, AstraZeneca, Smiths Medical and GE. Justin leads on a number of Market Research projects as well as run a number of strategic workshops, training and scenario planning activities for major pharmaceutical and diagnostic companies. Justin brings his deep knowledge and understanding of oncology strategy with a key focus on delivery excellence and is keen to work with you to maximize your learning opportunities. Justin has an MBA from Open University in UK, and a BS from University of Liverpool.

Rob has over 20 years experience in biomedical research, continuing medical education program development and execution, and strategic management. Rob provides each MDoutlook client with a unique perspective of intimately understanding the disease area researched and understanding the unmet medical needs and issues impacting treatment decisions. He has a deep knowledge of disease intelligence and market research, and successfully directs the Research, Medical Services and Operations teams to answer clients’ strategic questions through efficient use of multichannel intelligence assets. Rob additionally has experience with medical marketing campaigns, corporate communications strategy, finance, and brand development. Prior to joining MDoutlook, Rob served as a Medical Program Manager at Imedex, where he first worked with Jan. In addition, Rob has been involved in biomedical research at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and at Loyola University Chicago. In addition to extensive experience with all-types of live and enduring CME activities, Rob's expertise in biomedical research underpins his understanding of the medical issues surrounding each therapy area, leading to a different perspective to market the strengths and advantages of each client's offerings. His work in the field is also a great advantage in ThoughtLeader and physician identification and relationship building. Rob has also led both new initiatives and re-organizational efforts in a number of different settings, leading to both cost and process improvements.

With 20 years in the pharmaceutical industry, Melanie Marks has led hundreds of commercialization projects - including consultative, quantitative and qualitative in nature. For more than 10 years she worked on the product management side launching many of the industry's major brands. This provides her with a unique perspective on client needs which results in clients getting to the true answers they are seeking. She has extensive experience facilitating and moderating qualitative market research studies with healthcare professionals, payers and patients covering nearly every therapeutic category and healthcare topic - both domestically and internationally. She is experienced in the entire range of interview formats, including one-on-one, telephone, video-con and focus groups. Melanie holds a BS from US International University and a Masters of International Management from Thunderbird School of Global Management. She has worked in the pharmaceutical industry in the US, Europe and Latin America.