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Touch Group PLC Announces Key Senior Appointments for 2011

London based Medical and Health Sciences media and communications company Touch Group PLC, appoints Cathy Peck as Publishing Director; Sergei Sollo as Marketing Director and Anna Howarth as Account Manager in its Touch Medical Communications division.

Cathy Peck
Cathy Peck has joined as the new Publishing Director. In her previous role as Director Global Publishing at Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Cathy built and headed new publishing programmes for the UK, Spain and Australia, as well as a US-based foreign language sales department. She served on the WKH corporate China task force, evaluating the Chinese market and establishing the WKH strategy for China. Previously to WKH, Cathy worked as a consultant with several major health science publishers, including Elsevier Health Sciences and The British Medical Journal. Her overall skills and depth of knowledge in medical publishing both in print and online are formidable.

Sergei Sollo
Marcomms specialist Sergei Sollo has joined as Marketing Director. He will lead the Group’s marketing activities as well as champion its online presence with particular focus on the digital communications strategy for the Group and as a service for its clients. Sergei has nearly 20 years publishing and media experience. Previously a Publisher at the Daily Mail Group, he has spent the last 7 years in Healthcare media with the EMAP Healthcare portfolio which includes Nursing Times and Health Service Journal, then as Sales Director at online publisher E-Health Media; and more recently with the launch of his Healthcare Marcomms consultancy. Sergei brings a wealth of publishing and marketing knowledge as Touch Group expands and develops its clinical portfolio in 2011.

Anna Howarth
Anna joins the Touch Medical Communications Division as an Account Manager. Anna brings 6 years of medical communications agency experience – from Purple Hat Communications, Ogilvy Healthworld and Medicus International – and has worked with a range of blue chip clients including Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb, GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi-Aventis. She has extensive experience in strategic publication planning and delivery of comprehensive medical education programme activities. Anna completed her undergraduate degree at Imperial College London (BSc Biochemistry) and postgraduate degree at The University of Edinburgh (MPhil Developmental Biology).

Touch Group’s Chief Executive Officer, Stuart Winship, welcomes Cathy Peck, Sergei Sollo and Anna Howarth, and looks forward to an exciting and ambitious media programme for 2011 and thereafter.