“What people want is the extra, the emotional bonus they get when they buy something they love.”
– Seth Godin, Founder of Squidoo
ED DONAHOE, PRESIDENT
Outstanding Accomplishments
Founder, Donahoe Purohit Miller, Inc. Advertising Agency
Started this healthcare as agency with two offices in Chicago and Morristown. Agency became 10th largest independently owned agency. Served large and small accounts including dermatology, cardiovascular, generic injectables and dialysis.
Founder, DataMetrics, Inc, Ad Agency
Primary client, startup Sagent Pharmaceuticals. Launched Sagent’s internal communications department, branding and full-scale marketing and promotion. Sagent went from no revenue to over $1 billion in valuation in three years and was listed on Crain’s Chicago Business Fast Fifty for three consecutive years.
Work History
Abbott Laboratories
Product manager, sales, promotion. Sugar substitute product manager, retail pharmacy and food store marketing. Pharmaceutical division, pharma products sales and promotion. Chemical and animal health.
GD Searle Pharmaceutical Products (Now Pfizer)
Promotion, advertising manager, all products. Product manager, CU-7 IUD, worked with cardio, gastro, oral contraceptives, etc., participated in physician learning material development and training, traveled the world working with Searle subsidiaries. Company revenue increased as much as 40 percent.
Personally Speaking
Ed is a proud Marquette University graduate. He is prouder still of his seven children, (three apples didn’t fall far from the tree and, like their father, are successfully planted in the pharmaceutical industry). Ed is a widower who remembers. Active golfer, tennis player, paddle ball player. Served in the Marines and managed not to become the late Ed Donahoe. He forayed into China, where he learned some Mandarin and how to win foreign friends, take orders and even enjoy the culture.
In business, whether as a sales rep or startup hero for his own advertising agency or Sagent Pharmaceuticals, Ed has always played the role of affable rainmaker. He may take opportunities by storm, but his sunny disposition always shines through. Ed does not stand on formalities and enjoys not getting decked out for dinners on his deck with his family. The name is “Donahoe” so you can expect and get one sham-rocking St. Patrick’s Day party. Ed prescribes many life lessons to his seven children, who, according to Ed, are mostly non-compliant. He happily provides love and advice off-label.