Edelman announced today the appointment of Kevin Coleman as General Manager of Health in the Edelman Chicago office, effective January 22.
Coleman joins Edelman with deep agency experience, including his most recent role as General Manager and Growth Strategy Officer at GSW Worldwide, a top full-service healthcare advertising agency. Coleman led the firm’s US and global engagements with Amgen, Lilly, Biogen and Gilead, as well as business development with some of the agency network’s largest clients including Johnson and Johnson, Lilly, Genentech, Biogen and Pfizer.
Coleman brings a proven track record of success for clients in health care professional, consumer and managed markets, where he delivered US and global insight-driven programs that aligned communication strategies with value propositions for health care products and services. Coleman returns to Chicago after eight years at GSW in various executive leadership roles. Prior to joining GSW, he founded and led Coleman Partners, a full-service, award-winning, advertising agency in Chicago for seven years. Before that, he was with the ImageCare healthcare agency, and spent years in product development and research roles at Abbott Laboratories, and Northwestern University Medical Center.
“Kevin’s expertise in working with clients and healthcare professionals, consumers, and payors to address value and access issues will be an essential benefit in today’s increasingly complex healthcare landscape,” said Kym White, Global Health Sector Chair at Edelman. “He brings extensive industry knowledge that will help create insight-driven solutions to drive our clients’ businesses forward in an era of transformational change for healthcare.”
Coleman succeeds Will Collie who has been appointed General Manager of the firm’s Southern California sub-region.
Edelman’s Chicago Health team is the second largest Health group in Edelman’s $150+ million Global Health network, with dedicated healthcare communicators who draw on the resources of the health sector network as well as the expertise of a wide array of colleagues dedicated to Research, Planning, Creative and Digital solutions to deliver on the firm’s Communications Marketing ambition. The team has consistently driven award-winning work for a wide array of blue chip clients in pharma, wellness, devices and diagnostics, associations and not-for-profits.
Coleman received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Creighton University, and a Masters of Science degree from Loyola University of Chicago. He has published scientific research in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, and the Journal of Biochemical & Biophysical Research Communication.
About Edelman
Edelman is a leading global communications marketing firm that partners with many of the world’s largest and emerging businesses and organizations, helping them evolve, promote and protect their brands and reputations. Edelman was awarded the Grand Prix Cannes Lion for PR in 2014; six Cannes Lions in 2015; and the Grand Prix in the Titanium category in 2016. The firm was named “2016 Global Agency of the Year” by the Holmes Report, and one of Advertising Age’s “Agencies to Watch” in 2014. In 2015, Edelman was among Glassdoor’s “Best Places to Work” for the fourth time. Edelman owns specialty firms Edelman Intelligence (research) and United Entertainment Group (entertainment, sports, experiential), a joint venture with United Talent Agency.