Leadership matters.
Meet the leadership team bringing together all of our talent to make it matter.
Amar Urhekar
Global President
What does ‘make it matter’ mean to you?
“make it matter is an opportunity, a challenge … a promise to impact each and every patient’s life we touch in a meaningful way. We want to create a positive change for the individual, the community and the world at large – one patient at a time.”
Simon Hackett
Global Growth Director
What does ‘make it matter’ mean to you?
“It’s simple for me – the more we grow, the more people we can help create life-changing solutions for. It means we can deliver more for people on the frontline of treatment. It means we can make everything we do matter.”
Ben Beckley
President, Mind+Matter
What does ‘make it matter’ mean to you?
“For me it’s about the unrelenting, unwavering nerve of all of us to exceed our own expectations. If we are better than the best we think we can be, then maybe we’ll have met just the bare minimum of what our patient communities deserve.”
Andrew Davidson
Global HR Director
What does ‘make it matter’ mean to you?
“One go is all we get. No second chances. Every day we have to make it matter. And if we make it matter for our colleagues, they’ll make it matter for patients”
Cliff McConkey
Global Finance Director
What does ‘make it matter’ mean to you?
“It’s a reminder that every day is an opportunity to impact those around us and the people we ultimately work for – our patients. This drives us on to make the mundane matter, and the important to become absolutely vital.”
Angela Cairns
Quality and Compliance Director
What does ‘make it matter’ mean to you?
“To me ‘make it matter’ means that everyone should feel comfortable in their roles – that they have easy access to guidance or advice on any question, large or small, and be confident that they are producing the highest quality work that is compliant with industry standards.”
Matt Jacobson
President, North America
What does ‘make it matter’ mean to you?
“We work on so many life-changing therapies. Our critical work brings data to life and helps healthcare professionals and patients make better healthcare decisions. For me there is no higher calling – it is a matter of life.”
Rich Lawrence
President, International
What does ‘make it matter’ mean to you?
“For me, make it matter is very simple. It brings home the importance and relevance of the brilliant work we do, and the meaning we bring to every task, every conversation, every day.”
Sam Witney
Head of IT, Ashfield Health
What does ‘make it matter’ mean to you?
“As the key enabler to core business operations and in support of the company ethos to make it matter, making IT matter is what is key to me and my function.”
Our business is better health.
We exist to create inspiring, life-changing solutions that achieve new realities for our clients.
We are your expert, multi-award winning team of agencies. And we’re with you at every step from breakthrough to blockbuster and beyond – with vital scientific expertise, data-driven truth, brave creative, and humanising technology.
We are unified by a shared identity and inspired by a common purpose to make it matter. This is what drives us to give absolutely everything our all. This is what is different about your Ashfield Health team.
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Driven by our mission to make it matter, we’ll share experience and ideas from across your Ashfield Health team.

Introducing Ashfield MedComms
Ashfield Health’s medical and scientific communications agencies have come together to create Ashfield MedComms, one of the largest scientific and medical communications agencies in the world.
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Say hello to Mind+Matter
Cambridge Biomarketing has merged with fellow Ashfield Health agencies Ashfield Digital and Creative and Pegasus to form Mind+Matter, a ‘global creative powerhouse in health’.
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Not your average Best Place to Work
In its third year, MM+M’s Best Place to Work contest recognized the best companies in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industry. This year, Ashfield Health agency MicroMass was recognized.
View articleMeet our strategic partners.
We’ve got our own talent in all the key markets and we rely on our partners in the ones where we don’t. Argon Global Healthcare is one of the world’s largest international networks of independent healthcare agencies, and MIMS is Asia’s largest multi-channel provider of drug information, medical communications, events management and marketing services. Together we make it matter almost everywhere! Get in touch and we’ll tell you more.

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Whether you are looking for a new partner or a new career to make it matter, let’s start the conversation.