ARC BIO COMMUNICATIONS - Key Persons


David Kane - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Managing Partner
David has over 20 years of experience consulting to global biotech and biopharmaceutical companies. David has led teams in the delivery of many award-winning programmes, and his team was awarded the Holmes Report's "Best Healthcare Consultancy in the World" in 2014. David originally trained as a medical scientist, having worked at Caltech and UCLA. He has a PhD from the Max Planck Institute and a degree in chemistry from Cambridge University.

Fiona Tavner

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Fiona brings over 20 years of collective biopharmaceutical industry and biomedical postdoctoral research experience. She provides senior strategic and scientific counsel, with deep experience in communication strategy, planning and execution. Fiona gained her PhD and First-Class Honours in genetics from the University of Adelaide, Australia.

Harry King

Job Titles:
  • Partner
With over 20 years of experience in the health and life sciences sectors, Harry has planned and delivered a wide variety of communication programmes for many of the world's leading biopharmaceutical companies. He has worked with products across the full lifecycle, from early-stage science, discovery and development through to commercialisation and loss of exclusivity.

Helen Swift

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Partner
Having worked in the healthcare communications sector for the last 17 years, Helen has experience across a broad range of therapy areas. She has a passion for internal communications and has led multi-award-winning campaigns engaging multiple affiliate offices, which have been running successfully for more than four years.

Pat Ward - CEO

Job Titles:
  • MANAGING PARTNER
Pat has over 20 years of pharmaceutical and healthcare marketing experience developing global communications strategy and planning for prescription products, consumer health brands and unbranded disease initiatives. More recently, Pat has also focused on internal change communications and affiliate activation. Pat's experience covers the full spectrum of strategic marketing for healthcare and pharmaceutical companies - making him ideally placed to lead strategy development for Arc Bio Communications.