Bill Holmes

Senior Strategist, TeamPeople Lead for Internal Meetings and Events Novartis

Bill is a marketing and communications strategist and creative director with a broad range of experience and achievement – learning and performance improvement … creative development...multi-media production…meeting and live event production – all are within his purview.

During his life, Bill has been a bartender for 3 U.S. Presidents, ran a white water rafting company and worked backstage with Maroon 5, ZZ Top, Bare Naked Ladies, Huey Lewis and The News and Wayne Newton, among others.
Early in his career, Bill spent several years at Fieldcrest Cannon where he was instrumental in the development of the first fully licensed Martha Stewart Program within K-Mart, for which he was twice awarded the Edward Cosper Industry Award for Marketing Excellence.

Since then, Bill has collaborated on the agency side creating and producing advertising and marketing brand campaigns in support of meetings, live events, sales training and other communications projects in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries.  He has worked within many therapeutic classes and created unique branding and marketing communication initiatives for Pfizer, Novartis, Bristol-Myers Squibb, IBM, Merck, Abbott, Lilly, Allergan, GlaxoSmithKline and Purdue.