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About UsLEADERSHIPBill Cooney Prior to launching MedPoint, Bill was on the Executive Committee and helped start-up Discover International, the medical education arm of Publicis Healthcare. In the 1980s, Bill worked in sales and marketing positions at Wyeth and Abbott. He was Business Unit Manager for the Depakote brand at Abbott, and helped form the first telemarketing sales department at Abbott. Throughout his career, Bill has spoken at numerous healthcare industry events and bylined articles in pharmaceutical trade journals on topics ranging from medical education to research training and digital technology. Bill Cooney is on the Board of Directors for Healthcare Consultants International, Inc., a company providing training and consulting services to healthcare providers and facilities. Bill holds an M.B.A. from the Fisher College of Business of The Ohio State University and a B.A. from The University of Virginia. He lives in Winnetka, IL with his wife and three children. Thomas J. Cooney During the 1980s, Tom built a career in consumer products, including executive brand marketing positions with Lever Bros. and Proctor-Silex, two Fortune 500 companies. While in these positions, Tom pushed for more aggressive use of a new and exciting technology, the personal computer. When Tom joined MedPoint in 1993, few people had e-mail or even knew the term "Internet." But Tom had a vision that PCs and digital communications would transform healthcare, and so he led trail-blazing initiatives that have become mainstream tactics for medical communications. These include eMedia applications such as computer-based training, branded websites, analyzers, database-enabled websites, and interactive on-line media. Tom drove MedPoint's early development of the TelePoint WebConference system and as CTO has presided over MedPoint's growth into the global best-in-class provider of medical eMeetings. Tom has an M.B.A. from Miami University and a B.A. from Northwestern University. He is married and lives in Chicago, IL. Peggy Quinlan Peggy has focused her career on medical meeting services for over 20 years. Prior to joining MedPoint, Peggy was a meeting planner for the medical education division of Publicis Healthcare. During her career Peggy has contracted or planned over 1,000 major medical meetings. She has extensive knowledge of the meeting and travel industry and is a recognized expert in this field. Starting in 1992, Peggy led the growth of MedPoint into one of the leading meeting planning groups serving the pharmaceutical industry. During the period 1993-2000, the MeetingPoint division accounted for more revenue and personnel than any other division of MedPoint. During this same period, MedPoint gained standing as a preferred provider for meeting planning services at Abbott, GlaxoSmithKline, Lilly, Pfizer, sanofi-aventis, and other leading companies. Peggy holds an M.S. from Loyola University. She lives in Kenilworth, IL with her husband and three children, and continues to travel extensively. John R. Losch Prior to joining MedPoint in 2002, John had 25 years of accounting and financial services experience, including Controller at Terabridge Technologies. Over a 12-year period at Leo Burnett Advertising in Chicago, John held several senior-level positions, including Director of Finance & Operations for the Planning Group. John has also held auditing positions at Central States Health Welfare & Pension Funds, and Arthur Andersen and Co. John has brought a new level of financial performance and operational control to MedPoint. He is responsible for overseeing the daily operations of the company's finance, human resources and information technology departments. Under his leadership, the company has implemented an advanced management information system that integrates financial and operational data, improving the company's ability to manage profitability. John is a CPA with a B.S. in Accounting and Computer Science from Northern Illinois University. He lives in Schaumburg, IL with his wife and three children.
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