LEADING OUR FIRM–
AND THE INDUSTRY

Our Executives
Our Leadership
Our Board

Our Board Our Leadership Our Executives LEADING OUR FIRM– AND THE INDUSTRY Jen Clark Vice President, Strategic Planning Kim Hogen CFO Anshal Purohit CEO & President Jamie Katz Senior Vice President, Operations Sam Glasgow Creative Director Jason Kilkus HR Director Ahnal Purohit Founding Partner & Board Chair

We guide healthcare clients to breakthrough strategy and impossible-to-ignore creative, leaving behind the expected and realizing the exceptional.

Anshal Purohit

CEO & President

Anshal has over 25 years of experience in healthcare strategy marketing. She has a passion for business strategy and innovation and is constantly thinking about the now and the next for our firm as well as the healthcare industry at large. With a skill for spotting and supporting early-stage companies and turning their visions into reality, Anshal leads our team throughout the process—from strategizing at preclinical phases to innovating at launch and beyond.

Anshal has held positions in sales and marketing at Bristol-Myers Squibb and Pfizer, respectively. After earning her MBA from Columbia Business School, she co-founded Polaris Management Partners (now a part of Iqvia), where she focused on strategic process optimization while growing the client base as Director of New Business Development.

In 2005, she joined her mother, Ahnal, at Purohit Navigation. Here, she began in client service and strategy for several years before assuming the role of President. In her years at Purohit Navigation, she has supported clients throughout the industry—from biotech to medical devices—and across therapeutic areas ranging from dermatology to oncology. Additionally, Anshal has focused much of the firm’s time and staffing resources on understanding and serving the nuances that accompany rare and specialty diseases, and demonstrating her passion for the behavioral interventions that accompany strategic planning for these products. Now, in her role as CEO, Anshal leads the firm in its everyday operations as well as its vision to continue to elevate standards of service and strategy across clients and deliverables.

In 2020, Anshal founded Purohit Ventures, a behavior-based investment firm that strives to be a strategic partner to early-stage portfolio companies with cash, hybrid, and time-as-currency investment models. She also serves on the board of AWASH, working with her mom to continually craft the foundation’s vision for the support of women’s health, including fistula repair.

Beyond the resumé

Always pushing boundaries, Anshal enjoys exploring the world with her family—though she admits that her son Rain usually chooses their destinations.

We guide healthcare clients to breakthrough strategy and impossible-to-ignore creative, leaving behind the expected and realizing the exceptional.

Ahnal Purohit

Founding Partner & Board Chair

In the early 1980s, Ahnal left a comfortable position in methodology development at a market research firm to venture out on her own. Within two years she’d co-founded a new kind of healthcare communications firm: the agency that would become Purohit Navigation. The firm started with no clients and limited services. But with determination, hard work, and a large dose of creativity—helped by Ahnal’s experience as a professor of statistics and behavioral sciences at the University of Illinois College of Pharmacy—they realized their vision of integrating strategy, research, and advertising.

Ahnal went into healthcare communications with a PhD in psychometrics and a goal to offer life-sciences companies research-based insights, deep strategic and scientific thinking, and breakthrough creative that would truly change behavior. For over 35 years, she has not only achieved her goal, but she has gone beyond the expectations of the extensive range of clients that the company serves.

In addition, Ahnal is passionate about improving the lives of others. She co-founded the nonprofit organization African Women’s Alliance in Support of Health (AWASH) to help the estimated 30,000 women among Sierra Leone’s total population of 6.5 million who suffer or die from vesicovaginal fistula, a condition that occurs as a result of obstructed labor. She has also spearheaded Purohit Navigation’s work to support the local Chicago community through internships and other initiatives that are having a positive and long-term impact.

Now, in her role as board chair, Ahnal continues to impact lives as she shares her decades of wisdom not only as an advisor to our firm, but throughout the entire industry.

Ahnal has been repeatedly recognized for her leadership and influence:

Ahnal has shared some of her industry insights in these prominent publications:
PharmaVoice: Client-Agency Relationships 101
PharmaVoice: Disruptive Advertising
MedAdNews: Purohit Navigation Inc.
MM&M: Purohit Navigation: 2018
PharmaLive: Purohit Navigation: 2018

Beyond the resumé

An artist at heart, Ahnal has flourished in a career that blends so many of her interests—healthcare, psychology, statistics, and creativity.

We guide healthcare clients to breakthrough strategy and impossible-to-ignore creative, leaving behind the expected and realizing the exceptional.

Kim Hogen

CFO

For over 30 years, Kim has navigated beyond the traditional role of a CFO by demonstrating her expertise across innumerable areas of our business.

A CPA with a BA in Marketing from Loras College and a Master of Accounting and Financial Management degree from Keller Graduate School of Management of DeVry University, Kim has been exceptionally qualified from the start. She built our accounting group from the ground up, giving her an encyclopedic understanding of our process and an ability to lend her insights throughout the product development lifecycle. Kim leads our group with passion and vision, and has been instrumental in finding innovative ways to partner with clients of all sizes, fulfilling Purohit Navigation’s mission to stay nimble and stretch the dollar.

Kim has a passion for seeing everyone win. Prior to her tenure with Purohit Navigation, she worked as a consultant specializing in setting up small businesses for success. Today, she ensures that the finances for each of our firm’s accounts are up to date and manages contracts, partnering with clients on billing strategy to help them get the best value.

Beyond the resumé

Kim also goes the distance outside the office, having run the Chicago marathon several times.

We are a team of innovators who stand out from the norm by continuously pushing creative boundaries, delivering strategic solutions, and challenging ourselves as we elevate brands.

Jen Clark

Vice President, Strategic Planning

Jen’s tenure with Purohit Navigation spans nearly a decade. She began as an Account Supervisor with the firm and quickly rose to play a key executive role. Her vision and strategic background were integral in the structuring and build-out of our strategy practice, and she has played a key role in the training of our Analytics, Content Strategy, and Strategic Planning Teams. In her role, Jen leverages her research background, clinical lab expertise, and experience in healthcare strategy and communications to bring the guidance and executional know-how that helps our clients succeed.

Jen earned a BA in Biological Sciences from the University of Virginia and an MRes in Structural Proteomics from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. After starting her career as an editor in the UK, she moved to New York and began her transition into healthcare strategy with TogoRun before joining Purohit Navigation.

Jen has shared some of her industry insights in this prominent publication:
PharmaVoice: Navigating Beyond for Commercial Success

Beyond the resumé

Outside the firm, Jen spends her time wrangling her two dogs, Winston and Zeus, and discovering new ways to marry her Anglophilia with her love of learning—like a full-day blacksmithing class in the English Lake District.

We are forward-thinking, solution-driven leaders who encourage engagement and inspire all to realize their potential, within an efficient and unified workplace.

Sam Glasgow

Creative Director

Since 2015, Sam has led our creative team in developing groundbreaking work for both internal initiatives and high-profile clients. As Creative Director, she partners closely with designers, writers, researchers, and strategists to craft innovative projects that push creative boundaries and deliver exceptional results. Her creative thinking is always grounded in strategy, ensuring that each project not only meets the client's objectives but exceeds expectations with bold, attention-grabbing ideas. Sam’s dedication to creating standout work has earned her a reputation for driving impactful campaigns, as evidenced by her multiple RX Awards (2016, 2017, 2021, 2022).

A proud product of multicultural Australasia, Sam is an alumna of Murdoch University and the West Australian School of Art & Design. Her deep appreciation for cultural diversity shapes her creative vision and expands her approach to design. With nearly 20 years of experience in art direction across both B2B and B2C advertising, Sam has developed a refined expertise in luxury goods and multinational campaigns. Her tenure as Senior Art Director at Rolex was particularly notable for her significant contributions to the brand’s visual identity, including designing and implementing key elements of their global strategy.

Beyond the resumé

Sam's passion for the arts extends to such disparate fields as classical piano and modernist architecture. She can often be found anywhere from live gigs to architectural tours throughout Chicago.

We are forward-thinking, solution-driven leaders who encourage engagement and inspire all to realize their potential, within an efficient and unified workplace.

Jamie Katz

Senior Vice President, Operations

Jamie is a results-focused agency operations and client services leader with extensive experience driving brand growth, optimizing operations, and guiding teams. Her unwavering commitment to delivering impactful creative solutions that can make a difference in people's lives not only defines her approach to every project, but also serves as the cornerstone for her effective management of operations and teams.

Jamie's expertise spans a diverse array of categories and industries, ranging from beauty and health care to tourism and tech. Notably, Jamie devoted nearly a decade to spearheading behavior change campaigns for the California Department of Public Health. Recently, she led the integrated rollout of California's Covid Vaccine campaign, followed by a subsequent initiative focused on raising awareness of Covid Treatments. Targeting Priority Populations disproportionately affected by Covid, the campaigns were delivered in 27 languages across multiple channels, effectively ensuring that essential healthcare information reached those most in need.

Beyond the resumé

Outside of work, she has a love for unusual travel experiences. Travel highlights include bungee jumping over Victoria Falls in Zambia, scuba diving with whale sharks off the coast of Belize, and eating tarantulas in Cambodia.

We are forward-thinking, solution-driven leaders who encourage engagement and inspire all to realize their potential, within an efficient and unified workplace.

Jen Clark

Vice President, Strategic Planning

Jen’s tenure with Purohit Navigation spans nearly a decade. She began as an Account Supervisor with the firm and quickly rose to play a key executive role. Her vision and strategic background were integral in the structuring and build-out of our strategy practice, and she has played a key role in the training of our Analytics, Content Strategy, and Strategic Planning Teams. In her role, Jen leverages her research background, clinical lab expertise, and experience in healthcare strategy and communications to bring the guidance and executional know-how that helps our clients succeed.

Jen earned a BA in Biological Sciences from the University of Virginia and an MRes in Structural Proteomics from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. After starting her career as an editor in the UK, she moved to New York and began her transition into healthcare strategy with TogoRun before joining Purohit Navigation.


Jen has shared some of her industry insights in this prominent publication:
PharmaVoice: Navigating Beyond for Commercial Success

Beyond the resumé

Outside the firm, Jen spends her time wrangling her two dogs, Winston and Zeus, and discovering new ways to marry her Anglophilia with her love of learning—like a full-day blacksmithing class in the English Lake District.

We are forward-thinking, solution-driven leaders who encourage engagement and inspire all to realize their potential, within an efficient and unified workplace.

Jason Kilkus

Human Resources Director

As Human Resources Director, Jason serves as a business partner to Purohit’s Navigators and is responsible for the strategy and implementation of human resources initiatives that support staff, organizational goals, and the employment value proposition of the firm.

Jason earned an MS in Human Resources from Loyola University Chicago, where he was a founding officer of the university’s chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). Prior to joining Purohit Navigation, Jason led the human resources practices for the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and for the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA). He also has held senior management positions in human resources for the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), Cantilever Technologies, and Comark. He has been responsible for establishing and expanding both domestic and international human resources programs.

Beyond the resumé

Jason enjoys giving back to the community, and has volunteered as a script reader at the LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired.