Angela Gillespie appointed president of W2O wcg

Gillespie is a boomerang to W2O, having previously run the San Francisco office and the West Coast Healthcare Practice for several years. She rejoined the firm during 2016 after a five-year hiatus where she worked in-house as a senior marketing professional for several leading large-cap and early-stage healthcare companies. She has more than 20 years of experience in strategic healthcare marketing communications and has created market-changing programs for more than 100 of the industry’s top healthcare innovators.

“Angela took a leap mid-way through her career, evolving her skill set to become today’s necessary hybrid marketing and communications professional,” Gottlieb says. “Her channel-agnostic expertise, coupled with her vision and conviction to building a consultancy rooted in a foundation of measurable analytics for our clients, specifically in healthcare, is essential to accelerating W2O wcg growth and exceeding client expectations. Angela is a formidable and well-regarded force in healthcare, and her appointment to lead W2O wcg is a natural next step in the evolution of the firm.”

Before rejoining the W2O family, Gillespie served as VP of marketing for NeuWave Medical (acquired by J&J) and senior market development leader for Covidien’s Peripheral and Venous Vascular Business divisions.

“As we continue to see the lines of marketing and communications blur, I am thrilled to be building a team of integrated communications and marketing professionals operating as an agency-of-record for the top healthcare companies globally,” Gillespie says. “It is essential that we help our clients navigate all sides of the strategy, marketing and communications mix in a digital world to provide best-in-class solutions that can measurably overcome complex business challenges today.”