After gaining an honours degree from Nottingham University, Mervyn Simmonds spent thirteen years working in a succession of management positions within British Steel Corporation, ending up as the manager of a billet finishing mill with responsibility for two hundred and fifty staff and a turnover of £70 million.

Mervyn then joined Janssen Pharmaceutica in the UK where his career progressed rapidly, taking in experience as representative, sales manager, product manager, and group product manager in both hospitals and GP products.

Moving to the Belgian International Headquarters of Janssen Pharmaceutica, he took responsibility for sales management issues within International Marketing, as well as organising and running sales and marketing management training for the world-wide organisation.

With the rapidly changing environment in Eastern Europe and China, Mervyn formed a group to provide marketing support and training for emerging markets, which resulted in the development of stand-alone organisations within a short space of time.

After returning to England, he joined Complete Healthcare Training to help run and develop training programmes for today's pharmaceutical industry. In 2001, together with John Jewell, he started JS Training.

With his blend of marketing, sales and training experience, he is able to work in the areas of "Marketing", "Business Planning", "People Management" and "Sales".

Over the last six years he has worked with more than 50 different pharmaceutical companies on both open and in-house courses in more than twenty-eight countries.

John Jewell gained an honours degree in economics from Essex University before joining the EC in Brussels. After two years he joined Pfizer at their European Management Centre in Brussels and worked in market research and planning. Returning to the UK, he spent time with Pfizer as a representative, area manager and product manager.

John then moved to Sanofi UK as Group Product Manager, before becoming Sales and Marketing Manager of Reckitt & Colman. After six months as a training consultant for IMS, John set up "Contrast", a training consultancy, as part of the Innovex group. Eight years ago John started Complete Healthcare Training and developed a comprehensive range of pharmaceutical training programmes in the UK and internationally. In 2001 he, together with Mervyn Simmonds, established JS Training, of which John is the Managing Director.

John has worked with most major pharmaceutical companies on in-house workshops as well as running a range of open courses. In the last few years John's experience has encompassed working with over eighty different companies from thirty seven different countries.

Sally Fagan specialises in interpersonal skills and is a certified user of personality profiling. She has trained executives in Australasia, Europe and the USA. Whilst living in Singapore, Sally became certified to act as a consultant for the national People Developer Award and back in the UK, has trained in the Investor in People scheme.

She now has over 20 years professional experience in Culture and Language, Export Sales Management and Consultancy Training. Sally is a fellow of the Institute of Administrative Management and a member of the Institute of Leadership

Richard Cave has over 20 years' experience in the pharmaceutical industry. He qualified at Leeds University with BSc Hons and PhD in organic chemistry which led to research with Allen & Hanburys (part of Glaxo Group Research).

After moving to a commercial role at SK&F, he progressed through sales, clinical trials, field training and product management where he was responsible for 'Tagamet' (cimetidine) in the overseas group. Subsequently he consolidated his international marketing experience in Sweden at Astra, where he shared responsibility for the international launch platform for 'Losec' (omeprazole) and at Glaxo where he was responsible for leading a series of international strategic marketing workshops with Stanford Business School.

He has held senior sales and marketing positions in the UK subsidiaries of Glaxo, Bristol Myers Squibb and Fujisawa before gaining valuable experience in running a medical communications agency.

He has a particular interest in NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) and is a certified Master Practitioner. Richard has particular experience in the application of NLP to the development of sales and marketing excellence in the pharmaceutical industry.