Michael Heinley |
Heinley joins the agency from online health publisher WebMD, where he was VP of corporate communications. Prior to that he was a corporate communications VP at Johnson & Johnson, where he was responsible for that multinational pharmaceutical company’s employee engagement and CEO communications. He was also formerly a senior director of corporate communications at Merck & Co, and held an account supervisor role at Hill & Knowlton.
Heinley is charged with coordinating global professional development efforts for Finn Partners’ Health Practice throughout the agency’s 14 offices. He’ll work with managing partner and global health practice head Gil Bashe and will report to health practice senior partner Kristie Kuhl.
Finn Partners in October also named Arielle Bernstein Pinsof a partner in the agency’s health practice.


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