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We’re excited to bring you a new Talking Future podcast episode.
Created by the Entrepreneurs’ Forum, Talking Future focuses on the lives and work of North East entrepreneurs, their views of the future and how they are innovating as they plan ahead.
In our third episode of Talking Future, Yvonne Bell speaks to Karen Winterhalter, CEO of Onyx Health, about future healthcare trends from VR to AR, wearables to interactive learning environments, and how COVID has accelerated the adoption of tech within healthcare communications.
About Karen Winterhalter
Karen started her career as a learning disabilities nurse, before moving into the pharmaceutical industry and then global healthcare marketing communications, holding jobs with some of the biggest agencies in the business.
Throughout her career, Karen counselled many global pharmaceutical companies through the complexities of launch products across the world, with some of these campaigns bringing real change to how a disease is managed.
When she returned to the North East in the early noughties for the Great North Run, Karen realised it was time to get out of London. She set up Onyx Health in 2003 from her bedroom, driven by a burning passion to deliver marketing and communications campaigns that make a real difference to the growth of the healthcare business.
Today Onyx Health has 15 staff, a stellar portfolio of clients, and has recently been nominated by the Sunday Times as one of the companies to watch in the North East.
About Yvonne Bell
Yvonne Bell comes from a background in transport, where the Bell family company spans 4 generations.
During her career, Yvonne spent most of her time in the Mercedes Truck, Van and Car franchises, mainly heading up the marketing function and generally steering the company through the growth that, by the time it was sold in 2017, meant it covered the North East Region from Teesside up to North Northumberland with a staff of almost 200.
Outside of business, she has always been keen to get involved in other things such as community and Hospital radio presenting, local magazine editing, audio editing for a local historical Trust and being instrumental in the setting up a local gym specifically for wheelchair users.
As a long-time member of the Entrepreneurs’ Forum, she was pleased to be asked to take a seat on the board a few years ago where she is able to offer her own business experience to other members.
Talking Future is available on Spotify, Anchor and YouTube. With a new episode released every 3 weeks, if you like what you hear, help us spread the word by subscribing and sharing!
