June, 2009 - Ray Hunt joins NIA Creative and NIA Creative Health as Partner

NIA Creative and NIA Creative Health today announced that Ray Hunt has joined the agency as Partner, effective immediately. His role in the firm will focus on business development in healthcare, technology, and public sector companies and promoting marketing, educational and promotional campaigns to support customer brands and products.

Ray comes to NIA with over 20 years experience developing and executing marketing strategies and programs, primarily in the healthcare industry. Ray’s knowledge and experience with marketing, training and development has enabled him to distill customer needs into high-impact programs that create tangible, traceable results. As Principal of his own medical marketing communications consultancy, Ray helped companies such as Santen, Berlex, DEY, L.P., and BioForm Medical achieve better penetration and growth for their products.

Most recently, Ray was General Manager of Customer Development for Align Technology, the makers of Invisalign. Ray was also Principal of William Isaacs Health Communications and held senior sales and marketing positions with Carl Zeiss Meditec, Coherent Medical Group and the Ethicon division of Johnson & Johnson. Ray holds a BA in Economics from Saint Mary’s College of California.

Partner Chris Finetti comments, “Ray’s depth of experience and expertise across a broad range of clinical areas will enable NIA to offer its pharma and device clients a more strategic and targeted approach to marketing campaigns, sales programs and product launches.”

About NIA Creative:

NIA Creative was founded in 1996 and has grown to become a trusted go-to marketing partner for healthcare and technology companies and public sector/non-profit organizations throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and U.S. In 2005, NIA launched its healthcare division, NIA Creative Health, to better meet the needs of device, pharma, diagnostics and consumer health firms. NIA is unique in that both traditional agency and full-scale production services are available in-house. Services include advertising and branding, web development, video production, animation, interactive media development and tradeshow/event marketing. Clients include Baxter BioScience, Biogen Idec, Cadence Design, Carl Zeiss Meditec, City of San Jose, Clarity Medical Systems, eHealthInsurance.com, Genentech, HA Logistics, Kaiser Permanente, Marin County Department of Health & Human Services, NuGEN Technologies, SellPoint, Tensilica, Themis, Workday and Zhone Technologies. For more information, visit www.niacreative.com and www.niacreativehealth.com.