HCB Health Increases Reach & Influence With Opening of New Jersey Office
HCB’s third office focused on serving large-scale pharma clients in the tri-state region; staff expected to grow to 25 in next year.
PARSIPPANY, NJ, AUSTIN & CHICAGO; (November 13, 2019) – HCB Health, one of the country’s leading independent healthcare communications agencies, has opened a third office in Parsippany, New Jersey, to serve new and existing clients. The office will also draw local high-caliber talent and provide dedicated local resources to HCB’s new East Coast-based clients.
HCB expects the current 10-person staff to grow to a dozen by the end of 2019 and to 25 by the end of 2020. The firm is actively recruiting to fill positions in the NJ office in account services, creative, project management, and digital.
The businesses the new office currently serves add to HCB’s growing roster of clients in the CNS/neuroscience, oncology, and rare disease spaces upon which the firm focuses. HCB expects to have several additional East Coast-based clients by the summer of 2020.
“We created this office to service existing local accounts and engage new clients in the tri-state region. Even in our virtual world, it’s essential to be close to your clients,” stated Kerry Hilton, HCB Health CEO. “We also want to be close to a strong talent pool to attract some of the region’s best talent.”
HCB identifies itself as being one agency with “three floors”-3rdfloor/New Jersey, 11thfloor/Austin, and 35thfloor/Chicago. Regardless of the location, all HCB staff share a common culture, quality, and commitment to client-first values. HCB staff stays connected throughout the day via various Slack channels, email, phone, and video chats. They also share the same workflow, process, policies, best practices, and more to help ensure seamless collaboration and integration.
Industry veteran and SVP Group Account Supervisor Lee Randolph manages the office.
“This third office is a significant milestone for our agency,” said Nancy Beesley, HCB Health President. “We’re strategically located in the middle of the pharma belt-where talent, agencies, and especially pharma and biotech companiesconverge.”
Beesley; Francesco Lucarelli, EVP Managing Director; Travis Waggoner, IT Director; and Kelsi Brown, Director of Employee Engagement visited the NJ office from Austin on November 4th to help celebrate the ribbon-cutting.
ABOUT HCB HEALTH
HCB Health is an independent, full-service healthcare communications agency. With offices in Austin, Chicago, and New Jersey, HCB is strategically structured to align with the specialized needs of the biopharmaceutical and healthcare marketplace. At HCB, listening drives results through unexpected insights. From digital to design, strategy or social, HCB Health combines clever creative with data-driven marketing to build happy, healthy brands.
