Annie Kelly

Holly Fellowes

Ramsen Odisho

Graphic Designer

Winnie Yong

Elisa Winslett

Accounts / Administration Executive

Elisa joined us after a career in accounts and finance in a diverse range of areas – at a gold mining company, for the council, and in advertising. Here at ZEST she keeps track of all the accounts and finances. She’s also the cheerful face you’ll find behind the desk if you visit our offices. Most importantly, Elisa makes sure there’s cake when it’s someone’s birthday!

Outside of work, Elisa is passionate about outrigging, walking and kayaking. She also loves to travel, having been practically everywhere, including living on Hamilton Island for 6 months!

Debbie Lim

Editorial Consultant

After working in research psychology for several years and then completing her Master of Science in Psychology, Debbie realised she wanted to move from academia to experience the world beyond. Working for ZEST allows her to marry a scientist’s drive for rigorous research with her love of words and language.

With an eye for accuracy and detail, one of Debbie’s strengths is developing high-quality materials that are tailored to diverse audiences – from the specialist who demands depth, to the hard-working GP looking for the headline summary with relevance to his or her patients’ needs.

Many of the best writers relax with a good book, and Debbie is no exception. In recent years, she has also developed a passion for poetry. During the rare times she’s not immersed in words of some kind, Debbie loves observing strange marine critters through the mask of a snorkel.

Fabian Flores

Account Executive

With a degree in Communications and Advertising and a diploma in PR, Fabian started his working life in the media industry, but soon found the repetitiveness driving him mad! He made the move to ZEST, where the variety keeps him happy - and busy!

Fabian co-ordinates many of ZEST’s patient and healthcare professional support programmes, and manages the administration of our professional educational programmes. He’s also learning the account management side of the business, and helps the whole team with whatever needs doing.

Fabian spends a lot of his spare time at Sydney’s wonderful beaches body boarding, and is about to take up surfing. He also enjoys travelling, having spent a gap year in the States and 3 months in the Canary Islands.

Richard Cobcroft

Director

Initially a biochemist, Richard joined the pharmaceutical industry straight out of university in New Zealand. His career has taken him to the US, Asia and Europe – and a push bike took him round Britain, but that’s another story. A headhunter and healthcare education brought him to Australia, where his expertise is in working strategically across client brands to ensure that every avenue of promotion is working effectively and in concert.

Richard is also the director of ZEST Digital, a new company that gives clients entirely innovative ways of reaching their target audiences. Richard combines his wide experience in healthcare communications and social media with his digital know-how to create attention grabbing podcasts and blogs.

Richard has passionate views on healthcare education, and it shows in the team he has built and in the ZEST campaigns that team produces.

After growing up in Auckland, the city of sails, Richard has swapped canvas for outboard to ride the break at the weekends as a surf rescue boat driver.
 

Jasmyn Real

Account Director

After studying chemical science at UNSW, Jaz inadvertently found herself working in account service at a healthcare advertising agency - which she discovered she quite enjoyed.

After working her way up the ranks at various advertising agencies, Jaz joined ZEST as an Account Director. She brings a distinctive blend of advertising know-how and medical education experience to the job, with a unique perspective on combining consumer and healthcare professional projects. With her stellar strategic and organisational skills, and you have an account director who knows how to get things done.

In her spare time you’ll find Jaz outdoors, enjoying skiing during the winter, and anything involving water during summer, and recently cycled around Cambodia to raise money for Muscular Dystrophy.

Linda Richards

Account Director

Linda obtained a Bachelor of Pharmacy and spent the next few years navigating the worlds of retail and hospital pharmacy. After returning from a stint in the United Kingdom, Linda moved into a Medical Affairs Manager role at a major pharmaceutical company. Finally giving into her inner grammar nerd, she then worked as a successful freelance writer and editor.

Linda spends most of her “spare time” accommodating her children’s social diaries, but she also makes time to relax with netball, Pilates, and reading.

Brad Jones

Web Developer

Between walking across Spain and climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, Brad has managed to gain a wealth of experience in web development and programming. After completing a Bachelor of Information Technology, Brad has applied his programming skills in a diverse range of areas – law, finance, HR consulting and construction.

After 4 years in the UK as a freelance programmer, Brad decided to return to his home soil. Here at ZEST he creates great-looking websites using scary programming language, which most mere mortals cannot make head nor tail of! His wide range of experience means Brad can get around the most complex online problem, to create websites that are the perfect blend of form and function.

Fiona Grigg

Director

As co-owner of ZEST, Fi is always keen to see what the new work day will bring. Whatever she commits to, it’s tackled with enthusiasm, experience, hard work and a sense of humour.

Fiona has a Masters in Science (anyone want to talk genetics?), which took her into the pharmaceutical industry straight from university. Having worked on three continents, including 14 years in the Australian healthcare market, Fiona has seen huge changes in the medical education industry, and is right at the cutting edge of new technology to ensure her clients’ projects stand out from the crowd.

Fiona can see the bigger picture for even the most complex jobs, and her great skill lies in finding the right solution for the situation at hand.

A newfound passion for golf finds Fi out on the course at least once a week, working hard to reduce her handicap.
 

Victoria Yuncken

Nurse Call

Victoria combines her extensive clinical nursing skills with a communications degree in public relations and advertising, making her the ideal person to co-manage our Nurse Call services.

Her 22 years of nursing experience have equipped her with the broad knowledge needed for her role at ZEST and the ability to learn about new diseases and treatments quickly.

Besides nursing and public relations, golf is Victoria’s other passion, although with two children fitting in time for 18 holes can be difficult!

Jason Watmore

Web Developer

Having spent 10 years in the IT industry, Jason has managed to develop a wealth of programming knowledge, in between spending a year in Brazil, running his own business, and masses of time at the gym and playing basketball. Jason has worked as a web developer in the advertising, publishing and communications industries, which makes him perfect for ZEST!

Here Jason creates brilliant websites for our clients, and enjoys the challenge of solving intricate programming problems. His love of new technology means that our websites are always innovative and exciting, but also attractive and user-friendly.

Helena McGrath

Account Manager

After completing a BA in Psychology and Education, Helena moved into the pharmaceutical world, primarily designing and coordinating a huge variety of events, including conferences, trade shows and product launches. She also worked on the sales and marketing side of things for a bit of variety.

Helena then came to work for ZEST, where she puts her excellent management skills to work ensuring that our clients’ projects are completed on time, on budget, and to exceptional standards.

Family and friends take up the rest of Helena’s time, although she does enjoy going to the odd concert when she is quick enough to get tickets!

Elly Brookes

Account Director

Elly started her working life in a drug development laboratory in the UK, pipetting undetectable volumes of clear solutions into racks of test tubes and having her sense of humour eroded. Frustrated with never having anything interesting to say at parties, she packed a bag and escaped on a round-the-world trip, where she developed a passion for scuba-diving and all things water-related.

On her return to the UK, Elly embarked upon a career in healthcare public relations, honing her talents for translating scientific and medical data into information that your granny could understand and then explaining it further to journalists.

After 6 years of delivering global communications campaigns from a London agency, Elly desperately needed to get some fresh air, so moved to Sydney and joined us here at ZEST.

Stuart Baker

Operations Director

After spending several years trying to unravel the secrets of the mammalian ovary as part of his PhD at the University of Edinburgh, Stuart decided to: a) get a real job; and b) move somewhere warmer. Medical writing in Sydney was the obvious solution, and since making the move, his career has encompassed a number of roles in medical communications, including healthcare public relations.

As Operations Director, Stuart has found the perfect role at ZEST, helping develop creative communications solutions for clients and then overseeing the flow of work through the editorial and production processes.

Substituting the laboratory for the kitchen Stuart enjoys experimental cooking, off-setting the calorie intake with frequent gym attendance.

Reneé Grogan

Account Manager

Like many who are passionate about what they do, Renée loves the day-to-day challenges and interactions of her role. “What drives me is that my job requires creative problem solving,” she says. “I love seeing the end results of a successful project and having fun along the way.”

An energetic organiser, Renée understands the nitty-gritty of managing a successful medical education campaign – a knowledge backed by two years working as a GP/Specialist representative in the UK and five years as an account manager in the pharmaceutical industry. Renée’s role includes developing pitches, costing jobs, keeping clients in the loop, and managing the project from beginning to end - in her words, “Making it happen”.

A self-proclaimed outdoor freak, Renée loves hiking, travelling, snorkelling, diving and anything active – which she managed to do to a fair extent during a 12-month trip in Central and South America and Europe.

Katie Toomey

Account Manager

Katie’s background includes management of a clinical-skills training centre for doctors, and marketing roles for medical diagnostic services and The Australian Red Cross Blood Service. As the recipient of a Churchill award, Katie was able to visit centres in the UK, the US, and Canada to better understand clinical skills training techniques.

Katie also has a Masters in Linguistics, which focused on medical communications with health professionals. She puts these insights to work when creating powerful and effective communication campaigns. Her skill is integrating education pieces within strategic marketing plans to drive business growth.

In her spare time, Katie spends time walking her dog (or is it the other way around?), and she can make greeting cards like nothing you’ve ever seen before.

Elina Solovei

Designer

Elina began her career in graphic design in Moscow, which makes perfect sense when you’re Russian. After studying sociology at university, Elina decided that graphic design might be a more effective tool to influence people.

Every campaign created by ZEST is crafted to capture the audience’s visual imagination. Working out how to take that audience captive is Elina’s job. As the eyes of our award-winning creative team, Elina makes sure all of your material is visually arresting and engaging.

After a static day at the computer Elina gets her heart pumping with a competitive game of badminton, and relives her childhood activities through coaching her son at piano and ice skating.

Noy Manirath

Accounts Supervisor and Programmer

Noy has experience in a diverse range of areas, including engineering, tax accounting and the sometimes scary world of customer complaints. Here at ZEST she has a role that almost defies description – she helps create databases for our support programs, co-ordinates patient and healthcare professional registrations for those support programs, and for a bit of variety she still dabbles in accounts.

Being thrust into the world of IT and programming, Noy decided she needed a bit of expert tuition and so completed a diploma in Programming and Software development. Having done that, she has decided that a degree in Information Systems was next on the list, and so is busy studying.

In the tiny amount of spare time she has left, Noy manages to fit sewing, screen printing, renovating her heritage home and planning a native garden into her day.