Leisa Dennehy

Current

• President at BioPharma Consultants
• Various Commercial Positions US & UK at GlaxoSmithKline

Past

• VP Marketing at Intrabiotics Pharmaceuticals
• Executive Director, Marketing (final position) at GlaxoWellcome

Education

• Duke University - The Fuqua School of Business
• Miami University

Connections

109 connections

Industry

Pharmaceuticals

Websites

• My Company

Leisa Dennehy’s Summary

More than 20 years experience on the commercial side of the pharmaceutical industry and 6 years early in my career in clinical and research labs. My commercial experience included a wide variety of strategic and tactical positions including Global Commercial Strategy Manager based in London UK (Glaxo Wellcome 1996-1999), Executive Director of Marketing for a therapeutic area (Glaxo Wellcome 1999-2001) and VP Marketing (IntraBiotics 2002). As a founder of a small consulting company in 2001, my work is typically out-sourced VP-level support for start up companies such as acting-VP Marketing (Peninsula Pharmaceuticals. VP Corporate Development (Galleon Pharmaceuticals 2004-2006), and acting CEO (Invitrox 2007). For the right opportunity and team, I will take a full time employee position.

Leisa Dennehy’s Specialties:

Corporate Development, Fund Raising, Opportunity assessment, Market development planning, Launch planning & execution, Brand management, Brand strategy assessment, Market research, Generic defense planning

Leisa Dennehy’s Experience

• President

  BioPharma Consultants

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Pharmaceuticals industry)

  March 2001 — Present (8 years 10 months)

  Founder and president of boutique consulting company which provides out-sourced, temporary placement of highly-experienced staff in commercial positions such as Marketing, Medical Education, Project Management, Commercial Development, Business Development and Corporate Development. Our clients typically are either small start up pharmaceutical companies who need only part-time but deeply experienced commercial talent during clinical development & fund raising or are any pharmaceutical company who needs temporary support for product launches, maternity leaves, or other peak work-load times.

• Various Commercial Positions US & UK

  GlaxoSmithKline

  (Public Company; Pharmaceuticals industry)

  1989 — Present (20 years )

• VP Marketing

  Intrabiotics Pharmaceuticals

  (Public Company; 11-50 employees; Pharmaceuticals industry)

  January 2002 — December 2002 (1 year )

  Responsible for pre-launch planning of a late stage compound in oncology supportive care

• Executive Director, Marketing (final position)

  GlaxoWellcome

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Pharmaceuticals industry)

  January 1989 — March 2001 (12 years 3 months)

  Final position at GW was Executive Director of Marketing where I was responsible for brand management of all products in two therapeutic areas including products in development and products on the market; oversight of a staff of 8 people.
  
  My experience at Glaxo, then Glaxo Wellcome spanned a range of roles over 12 years from New Product Planning, On-line Marketing, Global Commercial Strategy, New Product Forecasting & Strategic Research, and Sales Management.

Leisa Dennehy’s Education

• Duke University - The Fuqua School of Business

  MBA , Marketing , 1989 — 1991

  Summa cum laude graduate

• Miami University

  BA, BS , Chemistry, Medical Technology , 1979 — 1982

  cum laude graduate in the general honors program

Additional Information

Leisa Dennehy’s Websites:

• My Company