About The Judges
Andrew Carter
Andrew is Managing Director of Commercial Eyes Pty Ltd and has worked in the life sciences industry for 20 years.
Andrew established Commercial Eyes Pty Ltd in 2001 and over 9 years it has grown to become one of the foremost health technology commercialisation firms in the country. Prior to establishing Commercial Eyes Pty Ltd Andrew worked in various sales, training, marketing and business development roles roles in Australia, along with a number of short term assignments in Asia and the UK.
Andrew has an undergraduate degree in Science, majoring in Pharmacology and Immunology, and post graduate degrees in Business and Organisational Behaviour and has been involved in judging the prime awards each year since its inception.
Andrew Hosking
Andrew has been Managing Director of Go To Wo Consulting since 1994, a full strategic graphic design and web based company. In 2003, he created a specialised communications company - et al health communications, offering a broad cross-section of services from design, marketing, medical writing and training through to CPD and education for the pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device and healthcare industries.
With over 20 years industry experience working on a variety of cardiovascular, dermatology, respiratory and neurology portfolios plus natural remedies such as homoeopathy, Andrew has carved a niche market offering a unique, personalised service which is highly sought after.
With the adoption of research and market segmentation tools such as typology, he finds strategic analysis and integration essential to address the current industry changes. Andrew travels to New York to keep abreast of upcoming trends through design conferences plus international affiliates he has aligned with over the years to offer the latest marketing and creative opportunities to his clients.
Andrew has been a PRIME Awards judge since 2006 assessing marketing and advertising entries.
Anthony Bonnici
Anthony is Managing Director of Move Mountains. Prior to starting Move Mountains, he worked for 13 years at Eli Lilly pharmaceuticals, starting as a sales representative age 20 and moving up the corporate ladder into sales management and senior marketing roles. In 2004, Anthony made the life decision to leave the pharmaceutical world and focus on his passion of motivating & inspiring others.
Anthony started Move Mountains in January 2005, helping companies motivate their staff to perform at a higher level and to build stronger team bonds. Through Move Mountains, Anthony has performed to over 10,000 people in just 5 years of operation, and has worked in 3 continents around the world. Anthony has worked with many pharmaceutical companies and has also worked with other blue chip companies including the CBA, McDonalds, AMP & Sony. Move Mountains has programs ranging from 1 hour to 1 week, all aimed at improving what we do and how we do it.
Doctor Kendra Sundquist
Kendra is the Manager of Supportive Care Development for the Cancer Council NSW. She is responsible for developing evidence based new interventions and information to provide psychosocial support for people with cancer and their families. She has a Doctorate in Education and a Master's Degree in Health Education. Kendra is also a member of the NSW Medical Board (appointed by the Minister for Health) and the Australian Medical Council. She has published three books for consumers and several papers in refereed health journals.
Peter Doyle
Peter Doyle is an experienced international marketer with a long and distinguished career within the pharmaceutical, healthcare and communications industries. He has been closely involved in the establishment and growth of major companies in the pharmaceutical and communications industries.
After establishing Peter Doyle Advertising in 1987 it was purchased by one of the world’s foremost specialist healthcare advertising agencies, Medicus Group International in 1994. Peter stayed on with Medicus as President Asia, Pacific and was responsible for the profitable performance of six divisions of the company in Japan, Korea, Singapore and Australia. He has worked for clients including most of the major international pharmaceutical companies as well as non-prescription (over the counter) medicines manufacturers. He was a member of the US Board of Medicus Group International and involved in the overall direction and strategic planning for the future growth of Medicus worldwide.
Prior to his career in advertising Peter held senior positions in Marketing, Business Development and General Management within the Pharmaceutical industry, both locally and internationally.
Peter is now consulting to various, communication companies and healthcare marketers in relation to their, and their customers, overall strategic planning.
Mark Wayland
Mark is the Managing Director of the Last 3 Feet, an organisation that specialises in helping sales managers make their strategies apparent where it matters MOST - when coaching face-to-face.
He developed a passion for coaching sales coaches/ managers when he worked for Pfizer Australia as their Group Training Manager, where he was responsible for launching and driving coaching skills into the business culture of the sales group. Working with sales managers means that he also deals with Performance Management, Leadership and Sales Excellence issues.
Mark started his consultancy 7 years ago and has worked extensively with various Australian and international management and sales teams to develop and drive their professional development initiatives. He is also currently the Convener of the Australian Pharmaceutical Senior Sales Leadership Group.
Phil Brown
Phil Brown was, until recently, Chairman of Curtis Jones & Brown, after being a partner and Creative Director of the agency for 21 years. His work has been recognised by AWARD, the Clios, the Globals, London International Advertising Awards and the New York festivals. Apart from helping to create some of Australia's landmark pharma ad campaigns, his greatest satisfaction has been involvement in developing the careers of many healthcare communications people who have gone on to become stars in their field.
Dimity Pond
Professor Pond is Professor of General Practice and Head of the Discipline of General Practice at the University of Newcastle. She teaches all years of the undergraduate Bachelor of Medicine course at the University of Newcastle and is also an occasional teacher of GP registrars in training. She delivers talks and other educational activities at conferences and community events and supervises research higher degree students. Professor Pond won awards for her outstanding contribution to student learning in 2007.
Kerry Thiedeke
Kerry Thiedeke is Director of KDT Consulting Pty Ltd, a successful business specialising in partnering with businesses to develop HR & Talent strategies in line with business goals. Kerry also works one on one with high potential talent in Finance & Banking, as well as Pharmaceutical and FMCG. Kerry has a broad depth of experience and expertise in alignment of strategic HR (people strategies) with broader company direction. She works across Australia, has worked extensively in Asia and is currently working for a global pharma in Dubai.
Kerry has spent the last 20 years in Telecommunications and global pharmaceutical companies in a series of leadership roles such as Medical Business Manager, Learning & Development Manager, as well as Organisational and People Development Manager. Kerry’s passion is working with mature, talent savvy organisations with whom she can partner to .develop strong people strategies and drive a ‘talent culture’ through the business.
Kerry is also the Chair of the Talent Management Thinktank, a group of high profile companies who come together as talent professionals to share experience and expertise as well as provide opportunities for their high potential employees (ANSTO, Australian Security Exchange, Coca Cola Amatil, Fairfax Digital, Johnson & Johnson, Westfield and ING DIRECT).
As part of the Talent Management Thinktank, Kerry Chairs the Future Leader Forums for 100 of their top talent in 3 Forums per year in Sydney.
Malcolm Dawes
Malcolm Dawes is a highly respected and sought after organisational performance consultant with a keen interest in sales and leadership development. In particular he is a recognised expert in helping people understand how to increase their interaction effectiveness when managing people and situations.
After eight years as a nurse, Malcolm’s career moved into the pharmaceutical industry. He held a number of sales, marketing and training roles in the UK and Australia with sanofi and Innovex.
In January 2000 Malcolm was appointed to Head of Training for Quintiles & Innovex in Australia/New Zealand and joined the Executive Management Team. This role also involved the management and implementation of a major 2 year project across 14 countries in Asia Pacific. Malcolm held this role for almost 4 years and during that time he became a client of dta WORLDWIDE. The following years saw Malcolm join dta as a partner, establishing their UK office.
In July 2008, Malcolm purchased dta and its parent company and continues to offer state of the art development techniques in sales, team work and leadership including eLearning and blended learning to businesses around the world through its partner network.
He has published research on leadership along with a number of articles on sales excellence. He has also written on sales leadership for the ‘Australasian Sales Compendium’ to be published in late 2010. Malcolm is a member of the Australian Institute of Training & Development and is a Director of The Institute of Learning and Development Professionals.
Malcolm has appeared on the internet TV channel “The Profitability Channel” as well as presenting on sales and leadership in a number of countries around the world. Malcolm has been on the judging panel of the PRIME (Pharmaceutical Research Innovation and Marketing Excellence) Awards on four occasions in the past five years.
Greg Turnbull
Greg is currently the Communications Director, Pharmacy Guild of Australia
Greg has over 30 years media experience with he previous role being Executive Producer - Network News, TEN Network- Sydney. He was in charge of TEN's networked national news broadcasts, Early, Morning and Late and also EP of TEN's political interview program Meet the Press.
From 2002 to 2007, Greg was a Political Reporter for TEN Network, Federal Political Bureau in Parliament House Canberra, where he worked with Political Editor Paul Bongiorno. He was also Co-host of Meet the Press, the Sunday morning political interview program.
Greg has held senior roles in Government such as Senior Media Adviser to Kim Beazley, Leader of the Opposition and Senior Media Adviser to Prime Minister Paul Keating.
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