Teamwork makes the healthcare marketing strategy work.

Our skill sets unite to set results into motion.

We are more than a team. We are a unique meeting point where marketers collaborate with analysts, where innovators partner with media directors, and where it all comes together as one big, happy, devoted group of game-changers. We work together to transform potential reach into real-world results inside the health, wellness, and pharmaceutical industries. And we love every minute of it.

Meet the Team

Stan Woodland

Executive Chairman

As Executive Chairman, Stan does more than lead our team—he leads the industry. With a career that spans over 30 years, his work is widely recognized as a vehicle for change inside the healthcare marketing industry. His passion for innovation and excellence actively shapes CMI’s corporate culture as he fosters an ideal environment for supporting both personal and professional growth.

Dr. Susan Dorfman

President and CEO

Susan has immense experience in promotional strategy development, omni-channel/multi-channel media and relationship marketing, customer insights, and media innovation built to reach, engage, and deliver a return on investment.  She is a Doctor of Health Administration, a published author, and an industry speaker with strong connections and ties to both the healthcare and life sciences industries.

Eugene Lee

Chief Operating Officer

With over 25 years at CMI Media Group, Eugene is responsible for the global operations of media business leadership, media planning, and media strategy disciplines across all clients. He was voted onto the Board of Directors of The Association of Medical Media and participates in the Digital Health Coalition as a Digital Health Scholar.

Melissa Giordano

Chief Client Officer

Melissa is passionate about partnering with clients to develop solutions for their business challenges. She actively explores innovative ways to join forces in order to accomplish the most ambitious of goals and pioneer the cutting edge of healthcare. She is dedicated to customer satisfaction and business development by creating consumer and professional healthcare promotional programs across multiple contexts.

Johanna Tompetrini

EVP, Group Client Director

Johanna prides herself on ensuring clients have the most effective, efficient, and integrated media plan possible. She has developed her expertise in the nearly 20 years she has spent working in pharmaceutical marketing. Johanna is passionate about infusing her brands with creativity.

Becky Frederick

EVP, Client Finance

With 25+ years of experience in healthcare media, Becky knows that change is the only constant inside this professional space. She thrives on reinventing the media wheel for her clients in anticipation of the ever-shifting pharmaceutical landscape.

Paul Kallukaran

Chief Analytics & Insights Officer

Paul’s wheelhouse is making data work for brands. He and his team step in as an indispensable resource to advise clients on how their targets, messages, and channels/tactics are performing.

Justin Freid

Chief Media & Innovation Officer

Justin has 15+ years of experience in emerging media and search as well as in core media strategy and is responsible for discovering areas of opportunities for growth and building what needs to be done to achieve growth. He has spent his career helping brands break down silos and push forward new and innovative programs while also helping his clients make the best use of data and technology.

Irene Coyne

EVP, Group Client Director

Irene is an accomplished health care marketing leader with over 20 years of strategic marketing experience. She has a passion for solving clients’ biggest business challenges, being an indispensable agency partner through superior service, and inspiring agency teams to deliver innovative, quality work.

Joe Warren

EVP, Growth

Joe has spent his career working at some of the top media agencies worldwide. He has worked diligently across multiple brands building a solid foundation in consumer advertising and has translated these skills across multiple international markets.

Julia Missaggia

Chief People Officer

Julia leads initiatives from recruiting to retaining talent, strategy and promotion of employer brand and employee experience, employee development and progression, talent management, inclusion & diversity, and employee communications for over 700 employees across 7 different locations in the U.S.

Marjolein Bruurs

Chief Financial Officer

As CFO of CMI Media Group, Marjolein brings vast experience, having served as Vice President of Acquisition Services at WPP since October 2016.

Leanne Smith

Executive Vice President, Data Strategy & Governance

Smith has been with the agency for 20 years and in the industry for over 25 years, bringing strategic experience and knowledge about all data insights and data connections organizationally to this executive level position. In this role, Smith oversees three aspects of data: data strategy and reporting; data ownership and governance; and data regulation, privacy and compliance strategy.

Oleg Korenfeld

Chief Technology Officer

Oleg brings over 20 years of marketing data and technology experience, focusing on how technology and vision can bring transformational innovation. His appointment will help continue the momentum of decades of disruptive innovation in media as well as implementation of tech best practices on a global scale.

Andrew Miller

EVP, Digital Activation

Andrew leads a powerhouse of experts helping us redefine how media is activated across high growth areas. His role in Digital Activation is across SEM, programmatic, video, SEO and paid social.

Julie Hurvitz Aliaga

EVP, Innovation, Content and Partnerships

Julie Hurvitz Aliaga is EVP, Innovation, Content and Partnerships, expanding CMI Media Group’s intelligence offering, building out unique partnerships and creating a differentiator in the content and creative space.

Jose Ferreira

EVP, Product Strategy and Transformation

Jose has over 17 years of marketing experience. He is primarily responsible for defining strategic platform, technology, and data solutions that continue to enhance CMI Media Group’s marketing ecosystem and differentiates the organization as a cutting-edge market leader.

Kate Zwizanski

EVP, University Learning Services

With 17 years of experience in the healthcare media industry, Kate is passionate about mentoring and coaching, and explaining the “why” behind the “what.” As EVP, University Learning Services, Kate is responsible for ensuring that our staff are; supported throughout their careers, continuously shifting and pivoting skillsets, and adapting to the ever-changing landscape in which we operate.

Sandy Weag

EVP, Media & Communications Planning

Sandy Weag has returned to CMI Media Group to lead our media organization. She will focus on redefining and improving the company’s core deliverables, and cross-skilling the team into high growth media channels. Sandy will also move the management of media into a centers of excellence model that focuses on keeping our organization on the cutting edge of media strategy.

Selamawit Gilagaber

EVP, Customer Insights

Previously holding the Senior VP, Business Insights role, Gilagaber brings over 22 years of analytical experience and is known for ensuring clients receive a seamless, best-in-class deliverable.  She has been critical in guiding CMI Media Group and its clients in innovation in analytics. In this new role, Gilagaber will partner with Kallukaran to lead the overall vision for analytics and operate as the go-to insights expert for the clients and account teams.

Mark Pappas

Executive Vice President, Innovation

Pappas has been with the agency since 2016 and in the industry for over 15 years, creating partnerships that range from ride sharing, custom podcasts, gaming to professional sports leagues. In this strategic role, Pappas will continue to spearhead the agency’s innovation initiatives, driving the development of groundbreaking solutions, and fostering a culture of creativity and pushing the envelope across the organization.

Shannon O’Malley

EVP, Group Client Director

Shannon is a passionate business leader who has been with the WPP since 2006 and the industry for over 24-years. She has a dynamic healthcare background in patient care, medical education, marketing, and media, working within top agencies in the New York area. Shannon has a proven track record of effectively managing client partnerships and maximizing business impact. She has exceptional skills mentoring rising leaders and prides herself on developing talent at the agency.

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