By working with Informa Healthcare Communications, you are supported from start to finish by a team with vast experience in every aspect of medical communication and education. Add in the expertise of over 1,000 Informa Healthcare editorial board members and the support of more than 7,000 Informa employees, and you can be assured that you are backed by of the world’s most powerful knowledge providers.
To find out more on how we can support your objectives, please feel free to contact us directly at any time. Otherwise, send us an email and a member of our team will be in touch shortly.
Leadership team
Darren Gillgrass
Managing Director
Darren, Managing Director of Informa Healthcare Communications, has over 18 years of sales, marketing and publishing experience within the medical academic and pharmaceutical publishing sector. After completing a BA (Hons) degree in Business Studies and a postgraduate qualification in marketing (CIM), Darren joined Pearson Education in 1993 in academic textbook sales.
In 1999, Darren joined Adis International, a Wolters Kluwer organisation, as sales manager for their European Pharmaceutical Business Intelligence team, later progressing to General Manager: Germany, Austria and Switzerland. During this time, Darren built up a speciality in e-healthcare and telemedicine, in particular in oncology, respiratory and cardiovascular therapy areas, which resulted in new medical education programmes being developed in conjunction with a number of key partners, such as Philips Medical and the German Heart Foundation.
Darren joined Informa Healthcare in June 2008 as Sales Director: Publishing Services. Now Managing Director, Darren is responsible for the strategic direction and the P&L of the Informa Healthcare Communications and Custom Publishing group. His focus is on building stronger engagement between physicians, patients and industry, with a specialist knowledge of telemedicine.
Informa Healthcare Communications, Albert House, 1-4 Singer Street, London, EC2A 4BQ
+44 (20) 337 73496
darren.gillgrass@informa.com
Jay Magrann
VP & Product Director
As VP & Product Director, Jay Magrann provides global strategic direction and development for new products at Informa Business Information’s Custom Publishing unit. Jay recently led the launch of and serves as Publisher for the Journal of European CME and the online CME podcast website, CMEcast. He is the former Publisher of the CMRO Series journals (Current Medical Research & Opinion, Journal of Medical Economics and Journal of Drug Assessment) at Informa Healthcare.
Based at Informa’s U.S. office in New York City, Jay has over 25 years of experience in global healthcare publishing and continuing education for healthcare professionals. He came to Informa in November 2008 from Wolters Kluwer Health, where he served as Executive Director of the Lippincott CME Institute, Inc. Prior to that, he gained extensive publishing experience as Publisher of Lippincott Williams & Wilkins’ Sponsored Periodicals unit and during senior editorial and special projects publishing roles during his tenure at a previous medical publisher.
Informa Healthcare Communications, 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10017
+1 (212) 520 2762
jay.magrann@informa.com
Account management
John Schulenburg
Senior Business Development Director
John Schulenburg, a graduate of Indiana University has over 25 years experience in the targeted publishing industry focused on communicating with consumers, patients and health care professionals.
Prior to joining Informa in 2010, John held positions at Capital Cities, ABC Publishing, Time, Inc., and Wolters Kluwer Health working with a broad base of clients focused primarily on the Pharmaceutical Industry.
Informa Healthcare Communications, 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10017
+1 (212) 520 2790
john.schulenburg@informausa.com
Enas Khedair
Account Manager, Supplements and Special Projects
Enas Khedair has an honours bachelors degree in Pharmaceutical Science with over 10 years experience in the healthcare industry. She started her career in a consumer facing industry and after 9 years she moved her way into one of the largest PR firms in the world. The medical PR role provided her with direct contact to pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer, AstraZeneca, and Johnson & Johnson. She successfully worked with a team to launch many disease awareness campaigns, organise ad-board meetings and develop various marketing materials for congresses.
Moving from PR, Enas found her role in publications at Informa Healthcare Communications successfully organising 90% of the supplement publications across the 168 journal portfolio. With this, Enas professionally manages numerous clients across the world methodising various product and service lines at a strategic and consultative level.
Informa Healthcare Communications, Albert House, 1-4 Singer Street, London, EC2A 4BQ
+44 (20) 7017 4029
enas.khedair@informa.com
Product development
Sarah Pollard
Product Director
Sarah Pollard recently joined the Informa Healthcare Communications team to head up product development.  With 15 years + experience in STM business development, Sarah’s expert areas are licensing, programme development and content re-use.
Her broad-ranging experience in journal, book and image-based product lines — print and electronic - help drive authoritative, end-user focused medical educational programmes for our clients.
Sarah holds a BA (Hons) degree in Modern Languages.
Informa Healthcare Communications, Albert House, 1-4 Singer Street, London, EC2A 4BQ
+44 (20) 7017 6249
sarahMI.pollard@informa.com
Julian Jest
Market Research Executive
Julian Jest has worked at Informa for over two years since graduating from university. Julian started out working for on the Informa Healthcare books marketing database and now is responsible for the market research supporting new product development initiatives at Informa Healthcare Communications.
Julian holds a BA (Hons) from Roehampton University, where he was an active student speaking on behalf of the University at an academic conference. During this time, Julian also completed an overseas internship at The Tech Museum of Innovations based in San Jose, California.
Informa Healthcare Communications, Albert House, 1-4 Singer Street, London, EC2A 4BQ
+44 (20) 3377 3560
julian.jest@informa.com
