Press Release
TGaS® Advisors Named to Philadelphia 100®, Ranked 18th Among Region’s Fastest Growing Privately Held Companies
East Norriton, Penn., October 27, 2008 – TGaS® Advisors, a leading benchmark and advisory services firm for pharmaceutical commercial operations, announced that it ranks 18th in the Philadelphia 100®’s 2008 list of the fastest growing privately held companies in the Philadelphia region. The Philadelphia 100 (www.Philadelphia100.com) is an annual program conducted by the Entrepreneurs’ Forum of Greater Philadelphia, Philadelphia Business Journal and Wharton Small Business Development Center. Rankings were unveiled at the program’s 20th anniversary event held October 22, 2008, at the Sheraton Philadelphia City Center.
Managing Partner Stephen E. Gerard attributes TGaS Advisors’ growth to the firm’s collaborative relationship with clients and success in meeting their needs. According to Gerard, the firm’s achievements arise from TGaS Advisors’ unique concept of working from the “outside-in,” creating a community of operations executives and providing confidential fact-based answers to the question, “How do other pharmaceutical companies do ‘it’?”® In 2007 alone, revenues grew by more than 50 percent, the number of employees more than doubled, and the client roster grew by 75 percent. Most employees are 20-year industry veterans, coming to TGaS Advisors from such companies as Wyeth, Roche Pharmaceuticals, Schering-Plough, King Pharmaceuticals, Abbott Laboratories, Yamanouchi (Astellas), IMS Health and SimStar.
“TGaS Advisors creates collaborative peer-sets, giving operations executives the opportunity to learn from the firm’s rich database, from experienced TGaS Advisors associates, but most of all, from each other,” said Gerard. “We believe that commercial operations is the pulse of the pharmaceutical industry and that operations executives have a unique opportunity to provide leadership, especially in this difficult economic climate.”
Earlier this year, TGaS Advisors was named to the Inc. 500 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the United States, ranking as the third fastest growing company in the Mid-Atlantic region (PA-NJ-DE-MD) and ninth on the list of health companies. Gerard was also named one of the PharmaVOICE 100 Most Inspiring leaders in the life sciences industry.
About TGaS® Advisors LLC
TGaS Advisors, ranked ninth among health-related companies by the Inc. 500, is the leader in benchmarking and advisory services to the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industry. The TGaS Advisors roster includes the majority of the top 50 pharmaceutical companies with operations in the U.S. market. The firm’s benchmarking and advisory suite of solutions, PharmaStance®, provides clients with a way to measure where they stand with respect to their operations and answers the question, “How do other pharmaceutical companies do ‘it’?”® TGaS Advisors is based in East Norriton, Pennsylvania.
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- Operational Challenges, Closed Loop Marketing, Sales Reporting are Key Topics for Pharma Operations Execs at TGaS Advisors First West Coast Forum
- “Turning Prophets into Strategists and Leaders” Seen as Opportunity for Market Research; Theme of Pharma Market Research Group Presentation
- Record Number of Pharma Operations Leaders Share Challenges, Solutions at Four TGaS Advisors Forums
- Sharon Patent Appointed Director, Marketing Sciences Operations Practices, at TGaS Advisors, Adding New Dimension to Analytics Capabilities
- Top Pharma Execs Discuss Regionalization and Outsourcing Trends at TGaS® Advisors Operations Forum
- TGaS Advisors Launches Internet Performance Benchmark
- TGaS Advisors’ Gerard Moderates Featured Panel at CBI Pharma Leadership Summit on Impact of Innovation on Sales Operations
- TGaS Advisors’ Castello Offers Advice on Managing Changes in Pharma Sales Compensation Plans
- TGaS Advisors Named to 2008 Inc. 500
- TGaS Advisors Leader Steve Gerard Named One of “100 Most Inspiring People” by PharmaVoice Magazine
- TGaS Advisors Launches Organization and Career Guide Benchmark for Pharma Sales Operations
- TGaS Advisors Appoints James P. Castello Director, Management Advisor
- TGaS Advisors Named as Finalists In 2008 American Business Awards
- TGaS Advisors Hires Brian Bamberger to Spearhead Managed Markets Benchmarks
- Pharma Marketing Sciences Execs Learn “How Other Companies Do It” at TGaS Advisors Client Forum
- TGaS Advisors’ Wojcik Analyzes Incentive Compensation Issues at Pharma Sales Force Performance Conference
- TGaS Advisors Expands Executive Ranks to Accommodate Business Growth; Pharma Veteran John P. Carro Joins as Vice President, Management Advisor
- TGaS Advisors TGaS Advisors Creates New Position to Accommodate Business Growth; Pharma Veteran Tom Bang Joins as Executive in Residence
- TGaS Advisors Creates New Position; Pharma Veteran Gary McWalters Joins as Director of Marketing and Business Development