EMPOWERING PATIENT VOICES - Key Persons
Andree is a versatile business professional with proven success in diverse industries. She drives business results by leveraging an entrepreneurial mindset with well-honed skills in client relationship management, sales and marketing, customer service, patient advocacy, and social media management.
Andree brings 20 years experience with achievements in 4 distinct and unrelated industries, demonstrating her ability to rapidly learn and adapt while concurrently drawing upon highly transferable business skills.
Andree's introduction to the migraine community came when she took on the role as the USA liaison for the clinical trial and FDA submission process for Theranica's wearable acute migraine device, Nerivio in 2018. She has continued to work with Theranica.
Andree possesses a deft ability to build trust and credibility with a wide range of stakeholders, including colleagues, partners, healthcare practitioners, advocates, influencers, patients, consumers, and customers. She brings her business experience and passion for finding relief to the migraine community to this board position at Hope in Pain.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Member of the Board
Peter (Pj) worked as a financial services professional for over 20 years and a consultant for company issuers. He is an experienced, sophisticated capital markets investment strategist who has worked both on buy side (asset manager, private equity, CFO, SFO) and sell side (brokerage, registered adviser, capital intro). He is adept in fund raising, writing pitch books, analytics, and strategy.
Ralph has over 30 years of financial and management experience. He founded BŌNWRx Ltd, which makes complex spine surgery implants, built the company to a market value of over $500 million, and he holds many patents across numerous industries. In 1992, he started Carmichael & Company LLC, a merchant bank that managed over $6 billion in assets and advised on over $100 billion in transactions. He was a member of the investment committee of an international private equity fund that turned $384 million into over $1.8 billion in eight years. Prior to that, he was an executive at Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc. and an Associate at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft.
Ralph is a frequent speaker at financial industry events and is a recognized authority on exit strategies and liquidity alternatives for institutional investors. He also teaches finance courses at Michigan State University. Ralph has a B.A. and M.B.A. from Michigan State University (1985) and a J.D. from New York Law School (1989). He was a Law Review Editor and Clerk for the Hon. John E. Sprizzo, U.S. District Judge (SDNY).
Job Titles:
- Executive Director
- President of Hope
Shoshana Lipson is the President of Hope in Pain, Inc. and the Executive Director of Migraine Meanderings™ and Hope for Migraine™. She is a patient advocate, speaker, and writer with a passion to encourage, support, educate and inspire people with migraine and other chronic pain conditions to find purpose and value in the midst of chronic illness. Shoshana was diagnosed in early childhood with migraine that rapidly chronified, as well as widespread joint pain. In 2018, she started exploring how to use her background in non-profit management, social media, and public speaking to help with patient advocacy.
Since 2018, Shoshana has built a community of over 20,000 active members across multiple social media platforms, and in 2021 launched a new initiative called, Empowering Patient Voices. She collaborates with various advocacy organizations and leaders who advocate for people with migraine and chronic pain, and writes regularly for Migraine.com. Shoshana has been a migraine advocate spokesperson for several organizations and conference speaker including the Association of Migraine Disorders, Healthy Women, the American Journal of Managed Care, CHAMP, DIA Global, Pharma and Patient USA, and the Pain Therapeutics Summit. Shoshana consults with various pharmaceutical and medical device companies as a patient advisor.