Kevin Phillips, CEO
Kevin is a seasoned medical device executive with a career that has taken him from the production floor as a manufacturing engineer to a Vice President with strategic responsibilities in a global marketplace.
With nearly 30 years experience with industry giants such as Boston Scientific Corporation and Guidant, he has successfully delivered over 25 new products to market or clinical evaluation. He has also directed engineering, r&d, program management and clinical science organizations with an understanding of how to motivate and elicit performance from both internal and external relationships. His extensive portfolio of products demonstrates his passion for collaboration and the trust he has earned interfacing with other functional silos like sales and marketing, regulatory affairs, quality control and company operations.
“I’ve been blessed with a productive career; stepping up the corporate ladder rungs from engineer to VP over 27 years. The one constant throughout all my experiences has been interfacing with people. Simply put, you can’t achieve success in a vacuum. The goals are too aggressive or the issues too complex to win by yourself. The only solution is collaboration.”
Ken Hobson, Regional Manager
Ken brings more than 15 years of sales and marketing to the Beacon Performance Group. In that time, he's also been a leading sales executive for training in the pharmaceutical industry, selling and managing training engagements for audiences exceeding 5,000 representatives. Clients served include Merck, Abbott, Bayer, Amgen, Shire, Endo, Siemens, AstraZeneca, Pfizer and GSK, to name a few. Ken has also worked in the commercial real estate industry representing the largest data services firm providing detailed commercial information to appraisers, owners, developers, brokers, and lenders.
What I find exciting about the combination of Beacon Performance Group and HumanGPS is that we offer clients a 360 degrees of coverage. We utilize our collective knowledge to identify the common areas of improvement and excellence, and more importantly, identify blind spots and create a training approach that mitigates risk. What sets us apart is that the usual training materials and methods are built to be one-size-fits-all or content is created with a predetermined topic. We address the usual 80% of topics, but HumanGPS is the tool we use to mine the next 20% that is unique to the client’s situation. We mine topics, approaches and practices not discovered in standard methods, giving our clients a distinct advantage.
