Meet the Team

Strategic Marketing | Communications | Commercial Excellence 

Jeannette is the founder of Koodoo and has over 25 years in the healthcare industry. She is a commercial leader with a passion for creating strategies and engaging stakeholders to translate vision into reality. Working across multiple functions and diverse geographies, Jeannette collaborates with leaders to drive performance improvements and supports them to communicate compelling, insight driven narratives that bring others on the journey.

Jeannette enjoys working with teams to dissect complex challenges and create meaningful, elegant solutions that can be practically implemented.

Outside of work, Jeannette enjoys music, plays hockey, supports the ups and downs of Bath Rugby club and loves nothing more than to watch cricket with a Pimms in hand. Be warned – a lover of puns, she is convinced that she is far funnier than she actually is.

Strategic Marketing | Training & Education | Commercial Excellence 

Helen has previously led both pharma and medical devices marketing teams and has experience of operating at local, regional and global level in a variety of strategic and commercial roles. She established a successful healthcare marketing agency and worked in education where she held a coaching and leadership position. She relishes the opportunity to work as part of a team, is committed to driving meaningful goals and delivering optimal outcomes for customers.

Helen has a Bachelor of Science honours degree in Biological Sciences and has post-graduate qualifications in Marketing and Education. Outside work she is kept busy with her three daughters, but in her free time enjoys exploring the great outdoors and keeping fit.

Strategic Marketing | Launch Excellence | Commercial Excellence

Keeley is an experienced healthcare marketing professional with an extensive knowledge of the global medical device industry. She is a focused, strategic marketer and an effective communicator, with a proven track record in the development and implementation of Global, regional and local marketing strategies, launches and initiatives. She has led multi-functional and multi-cultural teams in her 20+ year career and is an enthusiastic business partner with a passion for meeting customer needs.

Keeley has a first-class honours degree in European Business Management and a Bachelor in Business from the CESEM in France. Fluent in French, she lives in Brussels with her husband, three children, five horses, one dog and cat.

Facilitator | Cultural Change and Coaching | Communications

Jonathan is a senior leader with over 25 years in global FMCG businesses. Educated as a Marketeer and Communications expert by trade, Jonathan’s passion lies in leading transformation cultural change programmes at corporate, project and team level. With extensive experience in Brands, HR, Commercial Excellence, Customer Experience and Corporate Affairs, Jonathan brings a wealth of first-hand knowledge of working in highly regulated industries.

As one of Koodoo’s most experienced facilitators and member of the International Association of Facilitators, Clients most value his ability to blend strategy, people insights, process and creativity into driving game-changing solutions.

Jonathan is an avid promotor of adopting a growth-mindset which he role models both in and outside of work. He has a passion for self-development and currently researching for his book that brings together the insights and learnings from corporate and agency experience. An active cricketer, he lives in the Midlands with his wife and two teenage children.

Training and Education | Commercial Excellence | Launch Excellence 

Catherine is an all-rounder with marketing, clinical and sales expertise with an intimate knowledge of the workings of the medical devices and pharmaceutical sector. Detail oriented and an effective communicator, Catherine has an ability to interpret and relay complex information. Her training as a Nurse specialising in renal medicine helps us think from a customer perspective, while her commercial leadership launching and managing healthcare products enables her to create valued activities for successful execution by commercial teams. She has led teams across multiple functions, setting high standards and creating clear goals in order to provide direction for business leaders.

She loves to travel, and can often be found planning her next adventure with her husband.  An avid football fan, she enjoys cheering on Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspurs.

Operations | Event Management   

Samantha’s project management and organisation skills set her apart. Her project management and leadership skills were initially honed at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, where she worked on a variety of events including the Sydney Olympic Games. A move to London led to her being involved in a hotel opening in Victoria, before becoming a general manager at the Good Eating Company based in the Business Design Centre.

When she isn’t glued to a computer screen organising the Koodoo herd and her landscape designer husband, she spends time baking and devising nutritious food with which to punish her children; learning French on Duolingo and running through Richmond Park while counting her blessings.

Digital | Creative | Motion

For over 20 years, Ollie has worked with global and nationwide companies, brands and start-ups to tailor highly creative solutions and outputs, online and in print, to help them emerge and grow through visual communications and the digital world. He works on projects from inception to completion, employing and blending cutting-edge trends and original ideas to make a real difference. His expertise ranges from app development to motion graphics to website and typographic design.

Videography | Creative | Digital

Expansive experience across multiple sectors ensures our Healthcare clients benefit from best practice and trends from other sectors. An adept storyteller with a finger on the pulse of technology, Andy delivers first rate creative from logo generation to advance videography movies. Andy loves travel, music and keeping sharp on what’s new and happening in the world.

Global Marketing | Business Development | Strategic Planning

As the co-owner and leader of Koodoo’s North America practice, Richard has almost 30 years of general management and marketing experience working with medical devices, biopharmaceuticals and technology startups. As the chief marketing officer of Hillrom he was instrumental in driving the transformation from a diversified medical device company to a connected care leader. Most recently he has been the President of Kardian Health, launching a leading edge radar based vital signs monitoring technology to the market.

Richard is a dynamic and results-oriented senior executive and corporate officer with demonstrated success in P&L management marketing, business development, rebranding, strategic planning, global marketing, research and development and healthcare. He leverages his exceptional leadership and analytical capabilities to build successful healthcare businesses in developed and emerging markets.

Richard earned his bachelor’s in business administration from Brock University and his master’s in marketing and consumer studies from the University of Guelph. With his partner, they are actively involved in many architecture and historic preservation projects.