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ROBIN GARSTKA

APTALIS
Amy Haché has joined Aptalis Pharma as manager, sales training.
Amy brings more than seven years of sales experience in the pharmaceutical industry, most recently with the Aptalis Quintiles partnership. She was also a pharmaceutical sales representative at
AstraZeneca from 2006-12.

ALLIANCE PERFORMANCE SYSTEMS &
ENCOMPASS HEALTHCARE SOLUTIONS
Alliance Performance Systems has reached an agreement with Encompass Healthcare Solutions to work together and share expertise and resources to expand the breadth and depth of their training
and consulting capabilities.

BAYER
Bayer announced the appointment of former Pﬁzer executive
Olivier Brandicourt as CEO of its healthcare division, eﬀective
November 1. Brandicourt will replace Wolfgang Plischke, who has
been CEO of the healthcare unit since March, following Jörg Reinhardt's move to Novartis.

Garstka is Informa's marketing manager, instrumental in the creation of Informa's promotional
materials and the driving force behind Informa's
brand. Andre Todman has joined as chief mobile
architect/lead engineer, after previously building
apps for companies like Apple and Sony. Tanya
Wilson has also joined Informa as their newest account director.

Jill Fenton is the new president of Quantum
Learning, leading all customer-facing activities and
taking ownership for continuing Quantum's endto-end customer experience. Jill brings experience
in more than 30 therapeutic areas, and best practices from working with 48 pharmaceutical and
JILL FENTON
biotech companies, 160 healthcare products, and
designing and implementing sales eﬀectiveness training for over 70
product launches.

WLH CONSULTING

Michael Ball, chief executive oﬃcer of Hospira has joined the board
of directors of KYTHERA Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. He brings more
than 25 years of healthcare experience to the role.

Informa has added several new professionals to its team. Robin

TANYA WILSON

QUANTUM LEARNING

HOSPIRA

INFORMA

ANDRE TODMAN

STEVE HAMMOND

Retired U.S. Army Colonel H. Steven Hammond,
Ph.D. has joined WLH Consulting, to head up leadership development and government contracting
operations. His extensive career included serving
as the director of the oﬃce of leadership development at the United States Military Academy at West
Point.

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