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Spectrum Science
2001 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, 2nd flr.,
Washington,
DC
20006
202/955-6222
Employees: 293. Founded: 1996.
Agency Statement:
Spectrum Science is charting a bold path forward as an independent, full-service strategic platform offering integrated marketing communications, clinical trial recruitment and retention and advertising and consulting services for the pharmaceutical, biotech and broader life science industry. Built on a foundation of scientific rigor and strategic acumen, Spectrum is designed to unlock greater value across the entire product and company lifecycle.
Under the leadership of President Amy Hutnik and a forward-thinking leadership team, Spectrum has refined its structure and services to help clients achieve more; not by doing more with less, but by delivering more through better: better thinking, better collaboration and better outcomes.
The platform spans a full suite of capabilities including:
• Advertising — Award-winning creatives and experienced brand and engagement strategists working in partnership to create meaningful brand experiences that incite behavior change.
• Clinical Trial Experience — With a focus on patient engagement, recruitment and retention, Spectrum ensures a seamless experience for study participants and research sites.
• Communications — From R&D and preclinical to clinical and commercial, teams marry scientific acumen with unexpected thinking to provide dynamic solutions that shift minds, influence behavior and inspire action.
• Consulting — A blend of innovative strategy and real-world experience breakdown complex healthcare challenges into actionable, attainable solutions.
• Media — Omnichannel, solution-agnostic performance media with a mission to deliver incisive audience insights and optimize ROI.
• Medical Communications — Focused on scientific accuracy and education to craft compelling yet compliant medical comms that enact change in HCPs and optimize clinical practice.
Spectrum’s integrated model—unified under a single P&L—champions collaboration, embraces a people-first mindset and drives results across disciplines. This approach has already earned industry recognition with over 30 award wins and a place on AdAge’s 2025 Best Places to Work list, underscoring Spectrum’s commitment to both impact and employee well-being.
As Spectrum looks ahead, their driving force is building what they call “the agency of the future”. Their refreshed brand and newly launched website reflect a dynamic platform poised for continued innovation and growth. With an owned presence in London and deep partnerships through Global Health Marketing & Communications (GHMC), Spectrum offers clients global reach with local intelligence, ensuring cultural relevance and resonance around the world.
The future of Spectrum is purpose-built: to connect humankind with its best healthlife, while continuously raising the bar for what integrated healthcare marketing can achieve.
Leadership Team:
Jonathan Wilson, CEO; Amy Hutnik, President & Chief Commercial Officer; Chris Bath, Managing Director, Europe; Dan Zaret, Chief Financial Officer; Jill Beene, President, Advertising and Consulting; Justin Rubin, Chief Creative Officer; Lauren Ankeles, Executive Vice President, Operations & Transformation; Michelle Gross, President, Communications; Michelle Strier, Chief Strategy Officer; Natalie Newman, Chief Human Resources Officer; Neil Weisman, President, Clinical Trial Experience; Tim Goddard, Chief Growth Officer
Spectrum Science in the news with O'Dwyer's:
| • | On the Move: Collected Stategies Adds FTI Alum ThalassinosTue., Oct. 15, 2024...has also served as a restructuring lawyer at Brown Rudnick.
Leslie Wheeler
Sloane & Company names former Spectrum Science EVP, health tech & consumer science Leslie Wheeler as a managing director in its healthcare... |
| • | PR Firms Post Mere 1.8% Growth in '23Mon., Apr. 1, 2024...executive team, welcoming executive VPs Jarrod Bull from Yard NYC and Robyn Wellikoff from Spectrum Science , as well as Cory Crayn and Kara Silverman who both returned to the agency... |
| • | Spectrum Acquires ContinuumThu., Feb. 8, 2024...
Spectrum Science acquires clinical trial recruitment and engagement solutions provider Continuum Clinical from marketing agency Blue... |
| • | News of Firms: FGS Global Acquires Canada's LongviewTue., Nov. 21, 2023...partnered successfully on many prior client assignments and are thrilled to welcome them to FGS.”
Spectrum Science acquires CrowdPharm, a full-service healthcare advertising company and its partner consultancy, Hot Iron Health. This... |
| • | Knox Lane Invests in Spectrum ScienceTue., Feb. 7, 2023...
Knox Lane has made a strategic investment in Spectrum Science , which ranks No. 4 on O’Dwyer’s roster of healthcare firms with fee income of... |
| • | Spectrum Science Acquires Sonic HealthTue., Jun. 7, 2022...
Jonathan Wilson
Health and science communications agency Spectrum Science has acquired Costa Mesa, CA-based life-sciences marketing company Sonic Health.
Terms of the acquisition were... |
| • | News of Firms: Lambert Forms Alliance with Van Dyke Horn PRThu., Mar. 31, 2022...said Jonathan Wilson, GMHC chairman and CEO as well as owner/CEO of U.S. partner Spectrum Science . Our new identity reinforces GHMC's laser-focus on healthcare while reflecting the increasingly diversified offerings... |
| • | PR's Top Pros Talk: Michelle GrossTue., Feb. 2, 2021...on diversity are the major areas clients will be negotiating in the coming year, Spectrum Science president Michelle Gross tells Doug Simon in the latest “PR’s Top Pros Talk” video... |
| • | PR's Top Pros Talk: Tips for 2021Mon., Dec. 21, 2020...CCO, Groupon
• Richard Edelman, CEO, Edelman
• Kathy Bloomgarden, CEO, Ruder Finn
• Michelle Gross, President, Spectrum Science
• Mike Paul, President, Reputation Doctor
• Emily Poe, CIO, W2O
• Heather Kernahan, CEO, North America,... |
| • | Adashek Succeeds Day at IBMThu., Jan. 9, 2020...Ketchum and Text100 for a Weber Shandwick-led team of SKDKnickerbocker, Civic Entertainment Group and Spectrum Science Communications.... |
| • | Spectrum’s Seng Switches to CurrentMon., Jun. 10, 2019...
Jacelyn Seng
Jacelyn Seng, who was executive VP at Spectrum Science Communications, has joined Interpublic’s Current Global as executive VP-client experience and North American healthcare... |
| • | Review of PR World 2018Thu., Dec. 27, 2018...since 2001. Weber Shandwick spearheads the IBM team that includes SKDKnickerbocker (US strategy, narrative), Spectrum Science (Watson Health, thought leadership) and Ryan Seacrest’s Civic Entertainment Group (influencer relations).
Michael Cohen
AT&T chief Randall... |
| • | IBM Taps ABB's Das for CorpComm SlotTue., Jun. 26, 2018...will report to Ray Day, chief communications officer.
Weber Shandwick, SKDKnickerbocker, Civic Entertainment Group and Spectrum Science handle IBM's PR.... |
| • | IBM Picks Weber ShandwickTue., May 8, 2018...is owned by Mark Penn's Stagwell Group, will work on US strategy and narrative; Spectrum Science will focus on Watson Health and thought leadership, and Ryan Seacrest's Civic Entertainment Group... |
| • | People on the MoveMon., Apr. 16, 2018...
Janet Graesser
Spectrum Science Communications has added five members to its senior leadership team. Kelly Cacioppo, who is joining the... |
| • | News of FirmsThu., Feb. 15, 2018...our culture and commitment to innovation, making us more agile,” said CEO Tripp Donnelly.
Jonathan Wilson
Spectrum Science Communications has partnered with Tickr, a data visualization expert, to create the newly launched Galileo6TM, an... |
| • | Hager Sharp, CDC Take Top Thoth HonorsFri., Oct. 13, 2017...development, partnerships, paid media and evaluation to generate exposure across targeted channels.
John Seng, founder of Spectrum Science Communications, and Carmen Marsans, senior VP-client services at Comunicad, were inducted into the NCC... |
| • | Wilson Becomes Spectrum CEOMon., Dec. 5, 2016...Jonathan Wilson, president of health, life sciences and public affairs firm Spectrum Science Communications, will now also hold the dual title of chief executive officer.
Wilson’s appointment was announced... |
| • | Why Monday Is a Great Day for Healthcare PR ProgramsThu., Jun. 11, 2015...Monday is the day “all health breaks loose.”* * *
Cherry Dumaual, an alum of Spectrum Science and Marina Maher Communications, is PR and Partnerships Director at The Monday Campaigns. She's... |
| • | Chamberlain's Wilson Takes SpectrumFri., Nov. 22, 2013...for the last four, will relocate to Washington to take the president slot at Spectrum Science Communicationson Jan. 4.
Spectrum founder John Seng continues as CEO and takes the chairman position.
He... |
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