Helen brings over 16 years of experience across commercial pharmaceutical roles from both local and global perspectives and is an experienced marketing strategist and cross-functional team leader.
Helen recently moved into consulting at Uptake at the start of 2025, before which she led the development of global brand strategy within the oncology portfolio at Ipsen Pharma across APAC, MEA, China, Russia, LATAM and Europe. Prior to this Helen worked within the UK in both brand and sales leadership roles across oncology, rare disease, immunology and transplant.
With a strong strategic marketing background at both global and local levels, Helen brings experience of product launch from Sandoz Specialty Care division where she led the UK launch of two biosimilars. Additionally, creative brand development and client service expertise come from her time in medical communications at the Interpublic Group where, based out of the Zurich office, she supported global client teams including the Amgen oncology portfolio.
Before moving into the pharmaceutical industry Helen was a marketing manager in the City of London for a Japanese asset management bank supporting both the bank’s corporate marketing and that of its equity funds performance to European institutional investors.
Helen describes herself as tenacious, inquisitive, positive and considers empathetic, active listening critical to delivering excellent project outcomes.
