Executive Bios

David (Rick) Keefer

Chief Operating Officer, Publicis Selling Solutions Group

Current Responsibilities

• Operational responsibilities for the four companies within the Publicis Selling Solutions Group (Publicis Selling Solutions, Arista Marketing Associates, Pharmagistics, and Total Learning Concepts)

Pharma Background

• A 30 year industry veteran with broad based experience in leading commercial operations.

Pharma Expertise

• Most recently, was Senior Vice President, Commercial Operations with Biovail Corporation.
• Previous, served as Vice President, Sales for Pharmacia Corporation.
• Prior to Pharmacia, spent 11 years at Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories, where he held a number of increasingly responsible senior positions in both the company’s institutional and primary care divisions. With responsibility for sales, marketing, managed markets, personnel, operating budgets, and customer development programs for the company’s entire portfolio of pharmaceutical products that generated more than $1 billion in annual revenues.

Education

• BS, Marketing/Accounting, West Virginia State College.