The events and communications division of Grass Roots continues to build out its proposition into international markets under the stewardship of Debbie Donaldson, Global Development Director.  Donaldson will now not only drive international market development, but will also oversee the meetings, events and communications offering in France and Switzerland. 

In this extended role Donaldson has appointed Thomas Vögeli as Group Operations Manager in the Zurich office in Switzerland and Aurélie Lebreton, Healthcare Account Manager in Paris, France.

Vögeli joins the agency in early July from bio-medical firm ZIMMER where he was Associate Manager Events, based in Switzerland.  Whilst at ZIMMER he was responsible for developing and introducing their global event management strategy, methodology and processes.  Vögeli will be responsible for delivering key healthcare client operations including Account Management and supporting the Grass Roots healthcare strategy.

Lebreton joins at the end of July bringing with her solid agency experience, working with a number of leading healthcare brands. Her role will be to retain and grow business within existing client accounts and work with the operations teams to ensure we deliver what we promise.

Debbie Donaldson, Global Development Director, Grass Roots comments: "Both new hires are as a result of on-going business investment and growth. Aurélie’s experience stretches across the full product lifecycle in healthcare events including the organisation of congresses and seminars within France and at an international level. Thomas has a rounded experience in both the corporate healthcare and large events agency world.  We look forward to each of them bringing valuable additional strength to our existing French and Swiss client management and operations functions."

Thomas Vögeli comments: "I am delighted to be joining such a respected organisation and look forward to getting to know the client base and applying some of my extensive knowledge in event operations.  I will be working alongside what is an already highly experienced Grass Roots team."

Aurélie Lebreton expresses her desire to get into this new role: "I believe in my 5 years at another agency has given me a strong grounding in event management and team leadership, I am now extremely keen to use my core skills to strategically consult with clients and deliver high quality healthcare solutions for Grass Roots."