Melissa is a highly experienced launch marketer. In the last seven years, she has launched five medicines in 150 countries.
Melissa leads some of Prescient’s most significant projects on launch and marketing capability across European and Asian clients and is also Head of Client Experience.
Melissa started her career at GSK, where she held several marketing and sales roles. These included the Head of Marketing for Vaccines UK, the Head of Strategy[including Marketing and Launch Excellence] for GSK International, and the Head ofHaematology for GSK Oncology International.
From GSK, she founded the European Commercial business for theJapanese pharmaceutical company Shionogi. As VP of Marketing Europe, she builtout the commercial teams in the UK, France, Germany, and Spain.
Most recently, she founded and ran Accretio Limited. Accretio co-invests with pharmaceutical companies in medicines that the pharma company cannot focus on to ensure access to patients in the UK.
After building a portfolio of 10+ medicines, Melissa exited the business in early 2018 to allow her to focus on her three passions: ensuring medicines launch successfully for patients, working with women in business, and her family.
Melissa loves to work with teams to build best-in-class launches.
