Our Credentials

Kevin Burnett brings significant management, program development and global marketing expertise to TTC Group. Strategically, Kevin has provided market assessment and development recommendations in support of pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device product introductions, political candidates and issue campaigns and public affairs initiatives. 
                                   
Tactically, he has managed teams of professionals with multimillion dollar budgets, participated in the successful market introduction of over 20 products, co-managed the third most successful open-space bond initiative in the history of California politics and co-managed media for the Dalai Lama when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace. 

Kevin has worked as a strategic consultant to industry, as a senior manager for a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company and as a senior vice president for a large New York City-based advertising and communications company. 

Throughout his professional life, Kevin consistently has taken leadership roles, including creating and mentoring an integrated corporate department, and establishing a self-directed management protocol for an international communications agency.

Kevin has served as a media spokesperson, representing both product-specific and general corporate interests. In addition, he has significant experience as a producer of industrial film and multimedia. Kevin has been an editor on a broad range of publications, including five journal supplements and numerous white papers and manuscripts, and has been an invited peer reviewer to UK-based Ashley Publications. His by-lined articles have appeared in publications as diverse as Engineering Horizons, Orange Coast Magazine and Wine Spectator.

Kevin has been a guest lecturer for the program in Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine. He holds a dual degree from the University of California in Political Science and Psychology.

Carey Gold has been a writer, director and creative director for over 30 years. His work spans every major content delivery medium, including television, film, live theater, video, video-wall, interactive CD-ROM and videodisc. Carey has written for popular daytime television programs, such as As The World Turns, Love of Life, Secret Storm, and Ryan’s Hope.  His work on Ryan’s Hope earned Carey two Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Writing Achievement. His series work has included Mystery Is My Business, The Rinehart Report, and From Time To Time.

Carey has also written and directed television commercials for clients, such as Accenture and Roche Laboratories. He was the writer and creative director for People Magazine’s Boom, an impressionistic video chronicle of the social forces that have shaped popular culture over the last 45 years.

Carey has worked as a writer, director, and creative director on a wide variety of corporate projects for clients, including ABC Television, American Express, Bristol-Myers Squibb, AT&T, IBM (Canada & US), Johnson & Johnson, Lederle Laboratories, Lucent Technologies/Avaya, Merck, Met Life, Pfizer, Pharmacia-Upjohn, Unisys and Xerox.

He previously served as an artist-in-residence at the Goodman Theater, and is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the BMI Musical Theater Workshop. Carey received his B.A. from Columbia University.

Stephen Visconti is a respected designer and creative director, whose career has included senior positions at some of New York City’s top-tier design, advertising and marketing communications firms, such as Lintas:MC, Wells Rich & Greene, Corporate Annual Reports and Wechsler.

A graduate of the School of Visual Arts, with a BFA in Design, and a member of the AIGA/NY, Stephen brings a wealth of strategic branding and design experience, and has built and shaped the brands of an impressive roster of financial services, healthcare, technology and commercial real estate clients, including Ameriprise Investments, CB Richard Ellis, Cushman-Wakefield, Healthpoint, IBM, ING Real Estate, ITG, Johnson & Johnson’s Acuvue brand, Lucent Technologies, Morgan Stanley and UBS Financial Services.

Stephen has designed and directed print, environmental and interactive brand experiences that have successfully captured a brand’s core purpose and values its content and character helping clients connect both emotionally and strategically with their audiences. From concept through actual implementation, and regardless of the project’s scope, Stephen delivers a classically trained design aesthetic, a passion for clear, concise and compelling ideas and messaging, and the ability to thoroughly understand a client’s needs and objectives.

Gene Ogman comes to TTC as a senior industrial designer with deep experience in interiors, exhibitry, product design and corporate identity. His client base—boasting several long term relationships—includes industry leaders in real estate, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, utilities and more, including such notable companies as Rockefeller Center, Eastern Consolidated, Estee Lauder, Chanel, Con Edison and PSE&G.

At Walker Group, one of New York’s preeminent store-planning firms, Gene’s work as a senior designer launched the prototypes of national retail outlets for The Xerox Store, The House of Fabrics, NYOTB, Waldenbooks, S&H Green Stamps and i-natural Cosmetics. The success of these designs stemmed from flexible concepts that could be employed over a broad range of sizes—building brand awareness on a national level in a highly adaptable way. Later, in private practice, Gene executed store design concepts for Chanel, and designed a whole range of products and packaging for Estee Lauder, including the signature Thigh Zone bottle which was later repurposed for their entire Verite skincare line. Gene’s work in these areas speaks to his profound expertise in interpreting a company’s branding message, and translating it into a total environmental experience as well as the most specific visual and tactile details.

As a partner in the firm AC3D: Industrial, Environmental and Graphic Design, Gene designed and oversaw the construction of over $40 million in renovations within Rockefeller Center, including the management company's corporate offices, newly computerized tenant directories and the property's Multi-tenant Corridor Program—the largest capital improvement initiative within Rockefeller Center since the late '60's.

In yet another highlight of Gene’s multi-faceted career, his exhibit experience includes Con Edison’s Energy Action Center, PSE & G’s traveling exhibit Seal Up and Save, traveling trade shows for Lonestar Industries introducing products such as Pyrament and Platibeton PBI, as well as permanent installations at the PBI factory in Montreal. Most recently, with TTC Group, Gene collaborated on the trade show exhibit for Healthpoint’s latest wound treatment innovations—Collagenase SANTYL® Ointment, OASIS® Wound Matrix and HYDROFERA BLUE® Bacteriostatic Dressings. This exhibit—considered the highlight of the conventions—showcased Gene’s sensitivity to the consumer experience while integrating striking and eloquent design elements.

Leslie Wolko specializes in defining and implementing robust and engaging user experiences across multiple media formats. By understanding clients’ needs and leveraging their strengths, Leslie crafts engaging interactive experiences designed to build strong brand identities and achieve business and sales objectives.

Leslie has more than 20 years of experience as an award-winning graphic designer, art director and creative director. In her career, she has created and guided projects for clients in a wide range of industries including healthcare, finance, communications, IT, education, food, and retail. Leslie’s background is diverse and encompasses print, web, interactive, multi-media, exhibition and environmental design. She is fluent in the Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat), Quark Xpress, and has extensive experience in Adobe/Macromedia Studio (Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Flash) and Strata Studio Pro (3D).

Dr. Mary Ann Chapman received her Ph.D. in neuropsychopharmacology from Washington State University in 1994, where she was supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Mental Health. Over the next 4 years, she received postdoctoral training in neuroanatomy and neuropharmacology at St. Louis University School of Medicine and Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit. Mary Ann then joined a biomedical communications firm, where she developed scientific communications materials for a pharmaceutical company in support of a neurologic product. Since 2000, Mary Ann has served on the Board of Directors for the Parkinson and Movement Disorder Foundation and as the Chairman of the Grants Review Committee for this organization.

Mary Ann specializes in the development of slide sets, manuscripts, monographs, and literature analyses targeted at a variety of audiences, with the goal of bringing scientific support to marketing messages. She has written in numerous other formats, including continuing medical education (CME), patient materials, sales training manuals, formulary kits, internal corporate documents, newsletters and lay advocate training manuals. General therapeutic categories have included neurology, psychiatry, cancer, genomics, immunology, skin disease, gastrointestinal disease and wound care. Mary Ann has produced materials in support of products from Allergan, Aventis, Berlex, Biogen Idec, Genomic Health, Healthpoint, Janssen, Sanofi-Aventis and Valeant.

Dr. Amy Lindsay has over 10 years experience in medical communications. Amy has a wide range of experience and expertise in medical and scientific writing, editing and project management, including substantial experience in the production of clinical and scientific research articles, review articles, posters, slide presentations, letters to the editor, journal supplements (including those based on symposia) and CME materials (including post-tests). She has also worked on product monographs, formulary fact kits, meeting highlight reports, white papers, small clinical study reports and grant applications.

Amy has written on a range of topics, including dermatology (acne, psoriasis, aging, aesthetics); chronic wound care; plastic surgery; ophthalmology (glaucoma, allergy, infection); neurology (botulinum toxin, pain, excitotoxicity, neuroprotection); and pharmacoeconomics. Target audiences have included physicians, scientists, nurses and managed care professionals.

Amy received her B.A. in Biology from Reed College and her Ph.D. in Physiology and Biophysics from the University of Washington in Seattle. She also has 5 years of postdoctoral research experience in neurophysiology.

Karen DiBernardo brings 25 years of public relations experience as a media strategist and placement specialist. Over the course of her career, Karen has worked with many of the country’s top PR firms, including Biosector 2, Chandler Chicco Agency (CCA), Cohn & Wolfe, Cooney/Waters Group, Fleishman-Hillard, Hill & Knowlton, HealthSTAR, MSL, Ogilvy PR and Ruder-Finn.

Throughout her career, Karen has placed hundreds of stories in Parade, Prevention, Readers Digest, First for Women, More, O, CNN, Fox & Friends, “The View,” “The Doctors,” The New York Times, Newsweek, Time, WebMD, “Good Morning America,” “Today,” “NBC Nightly News,” “CBS Evening News,” MSNBC.com, USA Today, Associated Press, Bloomberg and Reuters, and many other high profile consumer, business, trade and online media outlets.

With expertise in a broad range of therapeutic categories including cardiovascular, dermatology, endocrinology, immunology, neurology, oncology, ophthalmology, respiratory disease and mental, women’s and children’s health, Karen has developed, managed and pitched high-profile media programs for leading pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device firms including Abbott, Alcon, Allergan, Amgen, Bayer, Bausch & Lomb, Boehringer Ingleheim, Eli Lilly, Genentech, Janssen, McNeil, Mentor, Millennium, NovoNordisk, Pfizer, Roche, SmithKline Beecham, Sanofi Pasteur and many others.

As both strategist and placement specialist, Karen has spearheaded media campaigns covering all phases of the FDA approval process; journal publication, clinical trial and medical meeting support; consumer awareness and patient education campaigns and events on the national and local levels, including award-winning celebrity spokesperson campaigns with Patrick Dempsey, Danica Patrick, Michael Strahan, Rob Lowe, Joy Behar, Virginia Madsen, Phil Mickelson, Joe Torre, Magic Johnson, Danny Glover and Tiffany Thornton.

Previously, Karen was Senior VP/Director of Media Relations at Stratis/KPR, where she managed the McNeil/Tylenol and J&J/Ethicon Endo-Surgery accounts. Before that, she led the healthcare media team at Burson-Marsteller as VP/Media Services Manager, hiring and managing a team of ten media relations specialists across all healthcare accounts. She also began her career at Burson, where she spent seven years in the media services department before moving to Ruder-Finn as Media Services Manager.

E. Russell McAllister has more than a decade of experience evaluating and structuring investments in private and public companies, with a particular focus on investments in emerging healthcare companies. Russell joined Dragonfly Capital as Director of Healthcare Investment Banking in June 2008 from Merriman Curhan Ford & Co., where he oversaw research on micro- and small-cap biotechnology, biopharmaceutical and specialty pharmaceutical companies. Russell received a number of industry accolades for his research, including a 5-Star StarMine ranking for his coverage of emerging biopharmaceutical companies and a “Wall Street’s Best” distinction from the Motley Fool.

Prior to joining Merriman Curhan Ford & Co., Russell served as a Senior Associate at Thomas Weisel Partners, covering a wide variety of life science and medical technology companies. Prior to that, Russell served as Associate Director of Research at The Marcus & Millichap Company, conducting due diligence on potential private equity transactions and providing economic and strategic advice to its investment subsidiaries. Russell began his career as a forensic accountant at PriceWaterhouseCoopers and later as an investment research associate at Prudential.

Russell has published articles in a number of peer-reviewed biotechnology and financial journals and has been quoted in more than 50 news publications since 2006, including BioCentury, BioWorld, BusinessWeek and Forbes.

He holds dual undergraduate degrees in Asian Studies and Economics from Rice University, and dual graduate degrees in Accounting and Business Administration from Northeastern University. In addition, Russell studied as a Doctoral candidate in Finance at the University of Illinois for two years before returning to industry.