Press Release
TGaS® Advisors Expands Staff to Accommodate Business Growth Robert Shewbrooks Joins Firm as Vice President, Management Advisor
East Norriton, Penn., November 12, 2007 — TGaS® Advisors, the only comprehensive benchmarking company focused on pharmaceutical commercial operations, today announced Robert S. Shewbrooks has joined the company as Vice President, Management Advisor for the company’s Marketing Practice.
Shewbrooks will assume lead responsibilities for all TGaS marketing-based benchmarks within the firm’s PHARMASTANCE® family of operational benchmarks. These include Internet Marketing Operations Practices (IMOPs), Marketing Operations Practices (MOPs), Marketing Sciences Operations Practices (MSOPs) and the newest solution, Relationship Marketing Operations Practices (RMOPS).
With an extensive background in the pharmaceutical business, Shewbrooks most recently was with Wyeth Pharmaceuticals where he developed and led the department responsible for providing customer and market insights supporting the entire commercial organization. Before joining Wyeth in 2000, Shewbrooks held executive positions with Health Products Research (an Inventiv Company), and at the former independent consulting firm Scott-Levin, which was acquired by Verispan.
“Having an executive of Bob’s caliber join TGaS Advisors reaffirms our position as the leading provider of operations benchmarking to the pharmaceutical industry,” said Stephen E. Gerard, TGaS managing partner and founder. “His knowledge and experience will strengthen our efforts to help pharma companies gain new insights from the solutions we have at TGaS.”
As part of the TGaS team, Shewbrooks said he looks forward to building the TGaS brand of collaborative benchmarks to meet the emerging needs of clients. “From my experience working in the industry, I know how the TGaS solutions can be leveraged by pharmaceutical executives to integrate marketing and sales operations functions with the broader organization to gain a competitive advantage. The insights that TGaS benchmarks provide enables companies to operate efficiently and take full advantage of optimal practices.”
About TGaS Advisors LLC
TGaS Advisors was founded in 2003 by industry professionals, each with more than 20 years of pharmaceutical experience. TGaS provides the only comprehensive, peer-set benchmark solutions for improving the strategy and effectiveness of pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical operations. Because TGaS offers confidential advisory services only, clients can evaluate options based solely on their business needs. TGaS Advisors is based in East Norriton, Pennsylvania. To learn more about TGaS, visit www.tgas.com or contact Stephen Gerard at sgerard@tgas.com.
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