Northbank Communications Strengthens PR Team with the Appointment of Dr Douglas Pretsell as Account Manager

Northbank Communications Strengthens PR Team with the Appointment of Dr Douglas Pretsell as Account Manager

London, Manchester, Munich, 13th May 2004 … Northbank Communications Limited, specialists in science communications, has expanded its PR team with the appointment of Dr Douglas Pretsell as an Account Manager.

Douglas brings several years’ corporate, financial and healthcare PR experience to Northbank, gained at Noonan Russo and, more recently, at Manning Selvage & Lee. He has worked with a diverse range of clients in life sciences and healthcare including Eli Lilly, Chiron Blood Products, Biovitrum, CeNeS Pharmaceuticals, Personal Chemistry, Compugen, Sequenom, and PanTherix. He has a first class academic background with a PhD in neuropsychopharmacology from Cambridge University and postdoctoral research experience at Edinburgh University . At Northbank he will assist with business development and will initially manage the PR accounts for Vernalis and Scancell.

Commenting on the appointment, Sue Charles, CEO of Northbank, said “ Douglas adds further to our strengths in scientific, commercial, financial and healthcare PR. He combines the expertise that our clients require and provides the additional capacity to meet the needs of new clients. Both of his initial clients have been won in the last month.”

This appointment follows the appointment of three new account executives in April.

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1. Northbank Communications Ltd - www.northbankcommunications.com

Northbank Communications, a fully integrated PR and communications consultancy, focuses on serving science-based companies and organisations, with a strong focus in the life science industry. Northbank helps early stage companies establish a corporate presence through PR, image development, website design and corporate materials as well as value adding services including business plan writing and investor presentations. For more mature companies the consultancy can offer a range of dedicated services or integrated campaigns, focused on either marketing or financial audiences. The consultancy has a fully equipped design studio offering on- and off- line design solutions, based at its Congleton office.

Northbank Commnications Limited was formed through the merger of Charles Consultants into STMP Marketing Solutions Ltd in November 2002 and operates from offices in London and Congleton (near Manchester ) in the UK , and Munich Germany . The Company employs 21 staff with an annualised turnover in excess £1.5m (€2.25m).