Beghou adds Jenny Herritz and Marcos Mendell as partners

Beghou, a Chicago-based life sciences consulting firm, has hired Jenny Herritz and Marcos Mendell as partners.

Herritz and Mendell brings extensive experience across the biopharma commercialization lifecycle – from first launches to enterprise transformation.

“Clients value our ability to zoom out to assess the bigger picture and provide fresh ideas amidst all the data and disruption in the market today. The key is finding incredible people like Jenny and Marcos who have expertise in critical, in-demand areas, and who exemplify the collaborative, hands-on way of working that our clients love,” said Adrienne Lovink, CEO at Beghou.

Herritz is based in Madison, Wisconsin and brings more than 20 years of professional services experience. She has advised clients on commercial readiness and infrastructure design across rare disease, oncology, and specialty therapeutics.

Herritz previously spent 24 years with SVA, a Madison-based professional services firm, where she was latterly a principal in the consulting business and co-head of the life sciences vertical.

She has a bachelor’s degree in management information systems from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

Mendell is based in New York and has more than 20 years of experience focusing on healthcare sector experience design and advanced data analytics.

He joins Beghou from Real Chemistry, a marketing and analytics services firm, where he spent five years and was head of enterprise experience and business strategy. Before that, Mendell spent three years with Syneos Health, where he was global lead for commercial and omnichannel solutions, and 10 years with Pfizer, where he was US lead for business intelligence.

Mendell has a bachelor’s degree in marketing management from Baruch College.

Beghou was founded in 1993 and specializes in life sciences commercialization. The firm has practices in commercial operations support, marketing research, segmentation and targeting, sales force design, incentive compensation, forecasting, and data and analytics.

Beghou has more than 400 professionals across 10 offices in the US and India.