Our Team
Meet the Excellerate team
Jill Donahue
Managing Director & Founder
Everything I do is focused on helping pharma improve patient outcomes— my ‘day job’. I love it. It inspires me to jump out of bed each day to get back to it…
John Elliott
Managing Director
I’ve sat across the desk from hundreds of doctors, thousands of times, with a detail aid in my hand and a leather bag of samples at my feet. I’ve waited patiently…
Keila Fraser
Client Experience Manager
My desire to help others started young. I was blessed with parents that had a profound impact on my future. I admired my mother’s resourcefulness and my father’s…
Kelsey Gilchrist
Director of Engagement
When I was eight years old, my brother and I had a lemonade stand. We lived on a busy corner, and we were thrilled when we made a whole thirty dollars in…
Purpose Interviewers
Kim Arnott
When I was a kid, I used to tell people that I wanted three jobs when I grew up. I would be a teacher during the daytime, a psychiatrist in the evenings…
Hélène Bellerose
I’ve always been driven by a desire to help people. In my first job as a camp counsellor, I met children who faced terrible injustice and their stories left an indelible…
Deirdre Coleman
Growing up, I wanted to be either a journalist or a psychologist because human behavior has always intrigued me. More recently, I’m curious as to why…
Lynn Lau
When I think about why I am excited about this role, I think about my late grandfather, the man who named me 連添, “always learning.” My Gung Gung was from southern…
JP McGlynn
I am someone who thinks deeply and searches for meaning. There is much pain in humanity but I believe life is altogether magical—a gift. I have discovered that…
Maggie Stainsby
As a child, I moved way too often. One constant amid the upheavals was the fact that our homes always overflowed with pets. And I had a big sister who ran a children’s zoo…