Location New York, New York, United States Regions Greater New York Area, East Coast, Northeastern US Gender Male
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Champion for health innovation to sustain life and improve patient care, his energy and efforts center around making it possible for bold ideas to navigate an often fragmented health ecosystem.
Gil has been tapped by PharmaVOICE "as one of the 100 most inspiring people in healthcare;" included in the Fast Company “50 People to Watch in
the New World of Work”; chosen as a MM&M Top 10 Innovation Catalyst; by PRWeek/MM&M as a Top 50 Health Influencer;" noted by digital-health news and opinion platform Medika Life as a "Top 50 Healthcare Influencer;" recognized by the PRSA Health Academy for "Excellence in Public Relations;" by PM360 with its "Trailblazer Lifetime Achievement Award" and selected for the PR News "Hall of Fame" and PRWeek "Top 30 Health Influencers."
Gil has led four top agencies cited by PRovoke Media (The Holmes Report/Inside PR) as "Healthcare PR Agency of the Year" winners. He is a Medika Life and "Being Well" editor and a Top 10 digital/health influencer. He serves on a number of national industry and patient advocacy boards.
Gil has led agency teams that contributed to numerous global med/tech and biopharma blockbusters in cancer, diabetes, heart, respiratory, women's health and non-communicable and orphan disease therapies. His background in payer, provider, policy, pharma marketing and patient-advocacy communications enables him to integrate ideas that impact patient access to health innovation.
Dedicated to inspiring colleagues to collaborate and marshal their talents for common good, he was Group Company CEO, CommonHealth, and at WPP Group sister-company Hill + Knowlton, EVP, Worldwide Health Practice Director - its first Global Practice Head. He served as CEO of Health!Quest Global Communication Partners, a GTCR-backed private-equity firm now with $10 billion in active assets.
Prior to FINN Partners, Gil held leadership positions with New York-based agencies Makovsky, Medicus, (today part of Publicis Healthcare), and at pioneering integrated health-marketing agency Sutton Healthcare Group (acquired by Medicus). As a drug development policy and environment lobbyist, he served as a director with the New Jersey Health Products Council representing the research-based health products industry. He completed his military service as a paratrooper and combat medic with the rank of staff sergeant.
